My name is Aksana Chelyseva. I'm a Russian journalist. For the last five years I've been living and working in Finland because of the political reality of Russia nowadays. It turned out to be the only way for me to continue to work independently and to escape some dangers. I've been working with quite a number of Finnish organizations including Finnish Pen Center and the Union of Journalists. I'm a member now of the Union of Journalists of Finland. The problem of my situation is that I can't visit my home country so I haven't been there since the day when I made that decision to stay in Finland. It was in March 2008. But at the same time Finland has provided me with a lot more possibilities to work on cases of politically persecuted people in Russia to draw attention to their cases and to their faith from international community and in some occasions to organize some real help to them. In this respect I'm content with my life although it's pretty tough to be honest to have this kind of experience and the reason why for instance I wouldn't advise anybody else to follow my path. The reasons for this troubling situation I've had since 2005 are very complex. It's not just one accident or a couple of accidents which motivated me to take this decision. Actually mostly it was because of my work as a journalist on Chechnya because I used to work as the editor of the Russian Chechen Information Agency which was established by the Russian friendship Chechen Society and NGO and we had a network of our reporters in Chechnya and in Gushetia and the agency worked since 2000 until 2006 when actually the organization as such was banned as extremist by the Russian court. But the personal problems started even before that and one of the explanations to that as I can see it now was our attempt to mediate during the Bislang crisis when the school was taken hostage in a small town of Bislang in North Ossetia on September 1, 2004. It happened so that I personally reached on phone some leaders of the Chechen separatist movement those who were moderate and reasonable with whom it was possible to communicate and already on September 1, 2004 these people condemned the act of terrorism and it helped to start political talks which were held between some leaders of the North Caucasian republics including North Ossetia and in Gushetia and by the morning of September 3, we learned that some political decision had been taken and then president of Chechnya, Aslan Mashadov who was still legitimate at that time but who was underground so he made the decision to join the rescue headquarters and to become part of the rescue headquarters or he was ready to literally speaking he was ready to start acting on the so-called Russian side to save the children but storming of the school started a few hours after that and so children die mostly in fire but when I initiated that phone conversation with those people and it was my first attempt ever to reach representatives of the so-called rebels because before that we had tried to adhere to the norm that we remain independent journalists we just put the facts and we didn't ever try to ask for commands from either side of the conflict either from the Chechen side of the conflict or from the Russian state side of the conflict so we just reported the facts without any commands but it was the first time when I decided to do that and there was one particular reason I realized that it wouldn't be possible for me to remain to consider myself a journalist if I would wait until the crisis is settled in a violent way and we should and we would start counting the dead bodies once again so if the massacre had any single chance to be prevented so we should have tried to use this chance so that's I'm never even now despite all the consequences to that decision I'm never regretted having made that attempt and later I learned that actually it was also the attempt which Anna Politkovskaya made a few hours before me but it resulted in nothing because she was on the way to be sland when she was poisoned and it was one of the first attempts at her life but soon after this mediation and this successful result in getting condemnation of terrorism as such and that particular act of terrorism from such people as Aslan Mashadov and his representatives abroad actually we came under pressure from the authorities and it all started via official media almost immediately after that articles appeared about us being friends of terrorists and then I started to receive death threats not just once and they were not phone calls or nothing like that so they were flyers, death flyers and the death flyers were disseminated in hundreds in the area where I live in Nizhny Novgorod and the death flyers provided people with my real address where my family lived and still lives and people were called to fight on me as I was represented as an enemy of Russia and an enemy of the Russian people but that attempt also failed because and for me it was a very positive sign of normal Russia having future because although there were several attempts to disseminate those death flyers with my personal address so there were no single nasty glance at my neighbors on the contrary people brought those death flyers which they found in their mailboxes to my flat they knocked and they ran the bell of my door and they expressed indignation not with me but with those people who organized the death flyers and for some time when I was on the way home my neighbors, people who I actually didn't know personally they stopped me and they told me it's already dark and we are concerned about you you shouldn't walk alone, take care of yourself so people remained on my side to be honest but while it continued and they were finally the organization was banned as extremists and our office was searched many times in 2007 we tried to organize a small, very small event to commemorate our friend and colleague Anna Politkovskaya and they didn't even let to hold this event they broke into our office they arrested our foreign guests by the way also from Catalonia yes, there were two people who came to visit us for that occasion from Manresa and they were also arrested so it was a really nonsense but it happened in the course of time as we didn't see our activities as the FSB and the state agencies failed to break our will so I continued to receive threats and be under pressure and then in 2008 when I came to Finland with a very short visit on the last day of my visit to Finland when I had the ticket for the train to Moscow and then to Nizhny Novgorod I got a phone call that morning from my colleagues from journalists who didn't work with us and they told that police were searching our office once again and that everything was confiscated and more than 20 flats of people not in Nizhny Novgorod but also in the region who were considered to be linked with us were also raided and at that time we were working on the legal research into the international law and we were in the middle of this process and all the work was halted because everything was confiscated and we lost all computers and everything my first decision was just to take the train and go home and to start doing something on that but then my Finnish friends told her come on, come down a bit don't you understand what's going on so you will go back home and so we would have to help you but you wouldn't be able to do anything there so I postponed my return to Russia firstly for one month then for two months then for three months and there I'm still in Finland I'm not yet a refugee I've been a right in exile of the Finnish Pen Center so I had the residence permit in Finland but I wasn't a refugee I'm still not a refugee to continue our work we moved the legal entity of the organization to Finland so since 2006 the Russian Church and Friendship Society has been registered as a Finnish NGO and it was one of the reasons for my trip to Finland in 2008 so it enabled us to continue our work we finished our legal research it was published in Finland it was printed in Finland because it wasn't possible to find a publishing house in Russia and a great Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki helped us so he has become our official publisher of this book on Chechnya and International Law then I continued to work as a journalist but I also tried to connect Russian activists Russian journalists Russian NGOs with Finnish to find them some partners in Finland and with the course of time I became elected to the board of the Finnish Russian Citizens Forum and in 2010 on initiative from the EU there was established the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum and I'm also a member of the steering committee of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum so I continued to work with their purpose to connect people from Russia with European partners the research was launched at the European Parliament and it was also presented at the OEC and Dick Marti referred to our research in his recommendations in this special report on the North Caucasus for the European Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe it has been recognized it is complex because those are the Baltic states after gaining independence they can't be seen as having the same political conditions they are absolutely different from each other so Estonia has very little comparison with Latvia and Latvia has very little comparison with Lithuania but to start with it's very important to go back to the history because I do remember the year of 1991 and at that time I was living in Nizhny Novgorod it was my last year at the university and I do remember vividly this feeling of solidarity and support with people of the Baltic Republic in their wish to become independent so it was the overall feeling of the majority of the Soviet people to let them go so it was accepted as a matter of fact we didn't have anything against that at all I mean the majority of the Soviet people it was the overwhelming public opinion that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have all rights to go even then I knew that quite many Russian speaking people living in these countries so they also supported this independence movement so what happened afterwards was quite puzzling for me I really couldn't understand why people who felt the same and who belong to the same society were not treated the same even then it's necessary to be in mind that as a political reality over these three new countries was still different for instance I started to closely watch their situation in these countries in 2008 actually also thanks to Finland because I stayed in Finland and I got more access to these countries and I started to work in these countries as journalists on different issues for instance since 2008 I worked in Lithuania as a journalist on a particular case of a Chechen family who came under fabricated charges in Lithuania and now this family are refugees in Finland in Latvia it was... I wrote a lot of articles on Latvia and on political reality in Latvia and I regard in my estimation the most difficult situation with regard to inter-ethnic tension is in Latvia Estonia is different for instance also they also have this institution of non-citizens which was different from Latvia for instance non-citizens of Estonia have the right to participate in the municipal elections which non-citizens of Latvia are still fighting for so they are deprived of even this possibility and this is different for me because with my experience of a Finnish non-citizen I can have my own judgments even when I was living in Finland with a Russian passport I and I was registered as a resident of municipality of Helsinki even then with the Russian passport I had automatically the right to participate in the municipal elections not even to vote but also to if I wished I had the possibility to run for the municipal elections so and I am a non-citizen in Finland but this status saves me from a lot of trouble because my Russian passport was stolen and the Russian embassy refused to issue a new passport for me so and for several months I was without any documents and the Finnish police proposed me to help me in this desperate situation to issue a Finnish passport of a non-citizen so and now I can compare I've been in the same so to say position with non-citizens of Estonia and of Latvia I can compare that my status of a non-citizen of Finland actually improves my situation it makes my situation safer whereas these people who were born here so this status deprives them of possibility for instance non-citizens of Latvia so this status allows them to travel in the Schengen area but they don't have a working permit which is different because ethnic Latvians who are citizens of Latvia so they can go to any country and find a legal job for them so these non-citizens of Latvia they are treated as kind of slave force because they are confined to Latvia and the only work abroad they can get is illegal history nowadays has become a very powerful political tool and for me this is a very dangerous development because history is such a sensitive area that the whole society can be manipulated into distorted way of understanding the present so unfortunately in order to justify this kind of attitude to ethnic minorities unfortunately history has been used to influence the public as these issues of history and their collective memory are such a big thing on the agenda of these countries I feel that what is missing as an individual is collecting individual memories because very often individual stories can come into contradiction with their once and for all accepted notion of history because history is always made of different kind of exceptions and the role of just individual people is crucial one person could influence the course of events so I feel that there is quite a lot of effort being put right now into analyzing the archives and establishing the memorial sites and building museums but for instance I haven't seen anywhere in museums in this area any attempt to present testimonies of people who were part of those histories like I for instance saw in the museum of resistance in Warsaw or in the museum of Srebrenica in Sarajevo and that's extremely important to keep and to record which is now not being done here one of the possible explanations is that these kind of personal stories can contradict the official agenda Finland is a very sensitive area because of Finland's difficult relations and very complex relations with Russia but in Finland it's very interesting that they don't try to erase the past of the Russian Empire and there's something good which the Russian Empire brought to them for instance when I stayed to live in Finland I was in the first year I was really impressed with the kind of acceptance of most Finns that it was the Russian Empire which provided them with the possibility to develop their written language because the Swedes under whom the Finns were they tried to keep them away from education because they were used as soldiers and like labor force but they were no educated Finns under the Swedes which was different in Russia when Finland became part of Russia I was impressed with the very simple fact that they still have their streets named after the Rajensars like Aleksandarikattu which is the street named after Aleksandar II or Lisankattu which is the street named after Queen Elizabeth the monument to Aleksandar I, the monument to Aleksandar II the memorial sites on the houses where the Russian Tsarist families member stayed in Finland so they keep this kind of memory they don't have anything against it well I do think that it has nothing to do with history or with memory this is politics and this is contemporary politics so the whole thing was initiated in order to influence the politics of current governments and not to keep the memory or to study the history


The following is a presentation of TFNN The morning market kickoff With your host Tommy O'Brien Tommy O'Brien. Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from TFNN Wednesday morning at 9 0 6 a.m We got about a half hour to go until the starter trading and markets in positive territory to kick things off yet Again, we got a private payrolls missed this morning ahead of non-farm payrolls on Friday Alphabet Google crushes it out of the park last night. They're gonna be splitting 20 for one Mike distorted level two high. Okay, apologies. Let me see if I can get that down for you one second for me Testing one two. Hopefully that's going a little bit better there S&P's right now up 29 points. Let me know if we're doing well right now the NASDAQ 100 up a hundred and seventy seven The Dow up 12 points in the Russell is flat this morning saying that again. We got non-farm payrolls on Friday We got private payrolls with a decrease of 300 and 1000 jobs in January. Why not? We'll bring the headline over right now Unexpectedly is the headline folks. I've been talking about it this week Do not be surprised if the non-farm payroll number comes in negative on Friday. Also, don't be surprised if the market doesn't react too heavily We're going through quite a spike from the Omicon variant. I'm recovering from COVID myself my family There's no denying the work-life impact that something like that has when it reverberates around the country like it is right now Let alone the unfortunate human toll that it is doing with over 2,000 people a day dying right now But even if you're not dying When you're talking business, okay, and and the humanity of this is really what matters folks but the business side of things matters too because our economy is necessary for the country to flourish and You're gonna see a weak number whether it's negative whether it's zero whether it's barely in the positive Okay, this is a heads up we see a decrease of 301,000 jobs in January, but guess what that number hits Yeah, we see a little bit of a pullback. There's your uh, no, that's not the volatility.  I mean you're talking about Right now 15 16 points off of the highs of 45 80 this morning We'll jump over to the Nasdaq 100 quite a day for the Nasdaq 100 up to 15,000 260 We've backed off a bit Google. They are an advertising machine, man. We're gonna go over to Google Google shares alphabet 3,010 folks we were just trading at 2,500 less than a week ago You just traded up more than $500. That's a 20% run of the price of Google from where you were less than a week ago They're gonna be splitting 20 for one along with one of the just a bang out quarter in a big way And why don't we'll jump over to their numbers real quick as well Alphabet stock surges 10% on the back of blowout earnings is how they put it there You jump down to the number earnings per share. They beat by more than $3 $30 and 69 cents per share versus 27 34 revenue for 90 days 75.33 billion versus 72 point one seven just amazing the expectation for these technology companies and you got Apple crushing it out of the park by billions of dollars in beat you got Google crushing it out of the park billions of dollars in beat Advertising revenue jumped in the quarter revenue for the segment 61.24 billion folks a year ago. They're only pulling in 46 billion. I mean think about this Google Okay, now I remember being in my dorm I'm gonna try and place the year with sophomore year because I can remember I remember my roommate sophomore year Graduated high school in 98. So maybe freshman year. I'm talking a year but right around year 2000 My roommate is a very bright Technology major and he came into Google.  Okay, they've been accelerating ever since then just remarkable Over the last year alone that Google is up 33 percent folks We are changing our tendencies in life and YouTube Is is an entity that is unmatched on the internet folks. I got kids in the house. They watch Google YouTube I watch YouTube TFN and streams on YouTube Very robust advertising revenue growth implies the overall demand environment has stayed healthy amidst volatile supply chain and macro Uncertainties I would say so now you get into cloud. That's gonna be a big segment in the future At least that's the hope of investors revenue growth of 45 percent. You're only dealing with 5.5 4 billion on that number 65 percent year-over-year growth in the number of cloud deals worth over a billion dollars. They like to see that Wall Street firms out there up in the air auntie. You got 3,900 out there from UBS Yeah, quite a number indeed and Yeah, Google was one of the best stocks last year We had quite a pullback there putting this thing on a three-year weekly. You see the pullback folks We're gonna open near all-time highs.  You got it all back so much for the tech pullback Of of of carnage. You get it all back on Google now as we go through the week We're gonna get Amazon out with their numbers. I believe tomorrow Yes, Amazon will be out their numbers tomorrow after the bell Amazon straighten up a solid $50 right now as well Amazon's gonna open at about 3,080 remarkable that you're popping from a low level of 2,700 just like that Amazon is up about that 11% off of the lows and back at about 3,080 we jump over to Apple shares that's your three-year weekly Apple's gonna trade basically flat Yeah, over the market one seventy four sixty seven we jump around to the other fang stock Microsoft shares up as well with the market by about a dollar from 308 to 309 Maybe that's a little bit of cloud Getting into that as well Maybe down a little bit more. Let me help my mic. I had a couple people in my office last night And unfortunately, I think they messed with some of my dials Okay Let's jump around to see what else we have going on. I am gonna break down Those Google numbers a little bit more so 20 for one You're gonna be talking about a stock trading right next to Apple almost. I mean less than Apple The split could help alphabet gain entry into the Dow industrial average. You can't be in there at 3,000 That's for sure price-weighted index not gonna happen. You're trading at 140 much more in the realm of reasonable that they could be in there Bringing back stock splits to the market spent a while 20 for one aiming to entice and numerous small investors who flocked to the stock market during the pandemic The stock is trading higher on that one in a big way. And yeah, they said roughly 138 But guess what we know Google's already trading above 3000 right now. So you're talking about easy math $150 and yet talk about a relentless rally on Google shares Dow entry another motivation could be that they might get into the Dow price-weighted index a barrier for years Yeah, Amazon's not getting in there Google Alphabet is not getting in there. Yeah archaic weighting system I've said it many times before as folks if you ever were like a teacher in a finance class and you said Create a method that you're gonna design an index and you said I'm gonna make it price-weighted That has nothing to do with market capitalization I'd probably fail that student because it makes zero sense whatsoever to make an index price-weighted that has nothing to do with market Capitalization, but nonetheless that is how the Dow works Share splits have nearly disappeared from the US stock market recently only two in 2019 2019 47 in 2006 and 2007 and yeah Apple and Tesla brought it back to attention after they split in 2020 and Tesla that really Accelerated things we jump to Tesla shares. They're trading at 933 if you recall you back Tesla up Just I gotta remember when they split it might have been right back around here We'll have to pull it up Tesla on the split deal But nonetheless Tesla accelerated 1243 you're back 931 so far for Tesla this morning We'll get back and we'll take a little bit of a look at that ADP number folks a decrease of 301,000 for pirate private heroes for the month of January and February 2nd something folks is my son's birthday. 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We get the s&p's up 28 points right now. You get the Nasdaq 100 up 169 points right now We got Google shares folks checking in on Google Alphabet trading right at about 3,000 You got a bid ask of 3,001 by 3,004 let's jump over to our man Kevin Hinks every trading day folks noon Eastern time Kevin Hinks Tom White the team at TD Ameritrade Network on fast market breaking down the day's market action talking about defined risk Talking options talking earnings Kevin Hinks, how about those Google earnings man? You ready to buy some Google at about 150 bucks a share or what? I'll tell you By definition, it's important that your viewers know that a stack split Does not change a company in any financial way It's called financial engineering right and all you do is reduce the price and you get more shares now That being said I've traded Dozens and dozens of these over the years and there is a massive Mental aspect of this because you're gonna look at Google Alphabet and you're right it's gonna be between 150 and 200 dollars and So that right there changes everything when you look at a company like what like this Tommy? So it's gonna be fun to trade this as it comes out and Yeah, it's gonna be a big day and but and by the way Don't think for a minute That all eyes don't turn to Amazon with with the same Mention as Google trades, you know $3,000 Amazon trades almost $4,000 Tommy Really remarkable man. We saw about the same price. I should say that sorry and This you make a great point man. We've all seen it. It's really interesting how they've kind of gone to the wayside Kevin I mentioned I think they're only two stock splits in the SB 500 in like 2019 I think I pulled up they've kind of gone to the wayside as we all know but Tesla man And Apple as well. They really accelerated. We see it in Google the advertising numbers, man I was going over it. I know you've seen it Kevin, but growing a company that's doing $46 billion last year in the quarter by 33 percent the 61.24 billion dollars over a year man Just amazing these tech companies can grow at 33 percent over a year. You can't overstate it man So Google accelerating higher. We have Amazon higher as well. It will be interesting is Maybe we get some of these tech companies coming back to a more reasonable level One of the reasons that you talk about and the team at TD Ameritrade Network We talk about sometimes on TFNN as well I learned a lot from you guys saying one of the best ways to trade some of these equities if you can't afford a $3,000 a pop a share is maybe using options But Kevin even when you get to $3,000 man, you know, I think Google had a hundred and twenty seven dollar move Priced in just yesterday and their earnings It's still kind of pricey sometimes to use options when you're dealing with equities that are three to four thousand dollars So interesting that they're going to bring it down a little bit Jumping from that to the private payrolls number We all know that we might get a week number on Friday a little bit dicey action when we come in at minus 301 what should take on that private payroll ADP number this morning? Yeah, you know, there was whispers out there that these numbers coming out this week might be weak I don't think anyone thought they'd be that weak as you look at this number and Obviously the Omicron variant has had a pretty big toll on payrolls What what was alarming to me the service providing sector down two hundred and seventy four thousand jobs that's the lion's share of the three hundred and one thousand and You know small companies losing almost half at a hundred and forty four thousand So yeah, this is alarming number Here's the only thing you can hang on to if you're trading these markets in terms of Friday's non payroll number For some strange reason, there's very little correlation between the ADP number and the non-farm payroll number on Friday The misses are huge and the average miss on this number is about 294,000 so you can do the math on that one Tommy, but certainly when you look at a Sector break down and it's you're from a service providing sector no pluses on the board only Natural resources in mining was up 4,000 jobs in the goods providing sector So no pluses in the service for by providing sector. That's a big one Tommy Yeah, and it's it's it's understandable in my mind Kevin has telling listeners, you know My family had a little COVID outbreak last week and kind of hear it in my voice right now getting over it Everybody doing well thankfully, but you talk about a work life balance Kevin even if I hadn't gotten it myself, right? I have a fiance who's out. I got two kids at home, right? You got to take care of the kids Maybe you're isolating the disruption in life man when you're dealing with this many cases Not surprising that you're seeing some some harsh numbers in January But I've also said that man we come out of this Kevin right my own family included I got two kids under the age of five in my house that had not had the chance to get vaccinated yet We were maybe looking for the opportunity to get them vaccinated before we really get out into those big crowds of people Talking Disney talking movie theaters. Well, guess what man? We're gonna be over that hump now You know Disney's in the conversation getting back out in the conversation. We've seen a little bit of rotation to some of that Getting back out into the economy trade whether it's Disney Uber travel socks, etc. This week Just interesting as that plays out, but my own personal experience I'm probably not the only one going through that man when these cases are just so high And it's just such a disruption even a TFNN right if we had plans to hire somebody in the last week or two Maybe that gets pushed back Kevin, you know, and I know I'm speaking of the masses. You understand it But when you live it man, it's it's easy to see that disruption But maybe that's a transitory disruption to use the word of the year And we look forward, you know, I've also stated I don't imagine that's gonna have too big an impact on the Fed or the market because just like I'm looking forward I think it's a it's a it's a statement of what we're going through man And hopefully we're over this hump and in in a month that the things correct themselves. So we go from Google We got Facebook today, man. We got meta. They're an advertising giant. They're trading higher this morning They're already up about nine bucks to 328. They were just under 300 bucks a couple days ago remarkable acceleration What are you looking for Facebook this afternoon Kevin? Like Paulie will do a presentation on Facebook Alex coffee and I will be doing the show today We're bringing back the young man back into the fold for a couple days here as we work with some vacation time So Alex coffee and I get in the band back together. So Like Paulie will do presentation on Facebook meta We'll also trade qualcomm in the first segment show and here's one that is a lightning ride for attention Let me spotify in the third segment. So we'll trade Qualcomm Facebook and Spotify today You got a lot going on the show man a classic episode with Kevin Hinks and Alex coffee at the helm of fast market Facebook, man I've been talking about it. I got the Oculus Quest 2 I told you during Christmas man pretty amazed at the technology But it is going to be remarkable to see how much money they might try and spend to achieve Perfection in the world of virtual reality because it seems like that's almost an endless amount of money that you could be spending Facebook will be out after the bell tonight and they're training at 328 Kevin man, you're gonna have plenty to talk about today. We look forward to the program at 12 noon as always man We will be watching Big day today Tommy. Have a great day. Thanks for having me on you too Kevin Thanks for the update as always. We'll be watching at 12 noon today folks. It's an outstanding program Check it out on days like today, especially you're gonna have the private payrolls talking about you're gonna have qualcomm You know Facebook in there and Spotify Spotify no matter what you think folks about what they have going on with Rogan Remarkable when you look at the acceleration this thing has from a trader's perspective You were just down from 300 bucks in November to 164 and now you're opening at 207 right now We'll see where that thing holds Spotify right now up three points in the pre-market S&Ps holding on to the gains up 25 points the Dow actually just slipping into the negative and you get the Nasdaq 100 Lean the way up 176 points. Stay tuned folks. We'll be coming right back for the opening bell. 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You're trading up two hundred and sixty two dollars That's a nine point five percent pop to the upside on Google shares And they're gonna be split in twenty four ones you're talking about about a hundred and fifty bucks a pop for Google shares We jump over to Amazon Amazon shares up 48 bucks pulling back a little bit from the open We jump over to meta Facebook They're up 1.6 percent pulling back a little bit as well Facebook will be out with their earnings after the bell You're talking about a $17 move priced into their number for their earnings tonight now Facebook Going up the line here Zuckerberg's virtual bet has yet to give meta a stock boost So since they announced this in October the stock is actually flat Since that date getting down to the numbers here where we go. Come on Excuse me one second. I just had it Here we go roughly flat since October when the company changed its name from Facebook to meta which got a little bit of a Tongue-and-cheek on the internet in terms of Really could they just couldn't could they be a little bit more creative in in something than just meta But he wants to go full in there's no way to deny that Now it's the cheapest of the mega tap mega tech mega cap technology stocks I'll get it trading at a 20% discount to the Nasdaq 100 index and this has a lot to do with many things number one They announced that name change during a total debacle of basically Public relations. Okay, Facebook folks. I say it all the time do not hang out on Facebook It does not do good things for your mindset for your kids period. All right, Instagram I'm a lot more fond of but even Instagram the stories come out They are well aware that young girls are just getting destroyed for their personas on Instagram because all they're seeing are these unattainable Personas on Instagram that they're trying to live up to when you're in the the the fragile state of any teenager teenager growing up With that said the metaverse part of things is pretty enticing but how much is it going to cost? Okay, Zuckerberg has said the initiative would be a 10 billion dollar drag on operating profit just this year alone folks This is an endless hole of money that you can throw money into this is going to be like the last mile of delivery Okay, the metaverse is going to be the last mile of delivery Facebook may not be the company to profit off of the metaverse development because the real holy grail is You know complete immersion in virtual reality and we're years away from that to to say the least okay years away from that The Oculus quest to I'm sure there's other VR set headsets out there I know Sony is going to come out with one for the PlayStation apples got one That's probably going to be on the much higher end one maybe three four five thousand dollars coming out sometime this year Maybe late this year But it's going to be a last mile issue where you can get to 96% right you can get to 98% But you got to get to 100% to really be living it you got to get to where you put on a headset You put on a bodysuit and you can't even tell whether you're in reality or in a computer system You get to that point and Zuckerberg knows that he's going to own the universe Okay, but you're gonna have to spend a lot of money. So keep that one in mind now with that in mind The one reason that you maybe want to look at it is because the multiples that it's trading at right now The company is valued at less than 21 times earnings for the next year Not that bad when you talk about these tech companies, especially a company like Facebook that definitely has room to grow We see how Google is doing with their advertising numbers the entire NASDAQ 100 is trading at 26 times earnings This is because of the reasons I'm talking about folks number one. They have a lot of PR problems with their main business. Okay, they They may have some regulation coming down the line. They're in the sights of regulators on both sides of the aisle But they're going to be spending a lot of money that's going to eat those earnings All right, $10 billion of earnings is going to go bye-bye in 2021 That's going to be dumped into investment in the metaverse But you're only talking about a company that you're paying 21 times earnings Not that bad when you think about where you're paying for some of the other companies out there and we jump to it Facebook shares you're only up 1.2 percent. They give most of it back. You were up to 332 Facebook Just gave about 10 bucks so much for that. Let's see how Amazon's trading They are out with their numbers on Thursday a little bit of a give back as well We jump over to Apple shares up about three tenths percent We jumped the Microsoft shares this morning up about three quarters percent at 311 and let's jump over to Tesla shares as well Actually negative right now down eight tenths percent for Tesla shares All right jumping around to what else we got going on OPEC OPEC agrees on another gradual oil output hike for March We'll be talking our man Teddy cake stat from 4x dash trading dash unlock.com. That's after the next segment We'll be talking some crude. We'll be talking some 4x numbers The group has struggled to deliver 400,000 barrels per day monthly increases You got crude pushing seven-year highs out there and after a brief meeting the 23 nation coalition rubber stamp the nominal revival of 400,000 barrels a day from March we jump over to crude you're pushing 88 77 We almost made it to 90 bucks so close 89 72 volatility continues you take a look at crude let's put it on a three-year weekly talk about a bull run man crude One of the most remarkable trades from the bottom of the pandemic I got a low of six dollars and fifty cents But I think we're all familiar with the hysteria that ensued in April of 2020 when you actually had crude going to negative What was it negative thirty eight dollars a barrel that one contract closed at and we're going to be pushing 90 dollars by February of 2020 to February 2022 Our man Teddy's been calling for a hundred dollar crude hard to deny That's where the trend is going right now as you're pushing 90 bucks 88 67 the price of crude go contract Up about three dollars goals. You're spending the consolidation folks. We got a bid at about 1770 We're pushing 1805 this morning gold pulls back last week on chairman Powell This morning. We're up about three bucks But I mean look at the last year right since April of last year. Look at this Consolidation gold has been trading between about now we got outliers on both sides folks But you use a little linear regression maybe and find the line that best fits you're talking about a range of about 1770 up to a higher end of about 1850 or so pretty tight range for gold considering what's been going on in this market What's been going on in rates gold sitting at about 1805 we jump over to Bitcoin? That's not a tight range at all Bitcoin 37,870 off the highs of about 69,000. We jump over to Coinbase Pushes 162 last week you're trading at 193 for Coinbase shares so far this morning We jump over to notes and bonds. We get the 10 year sitting at about 1.8 percent right now. We put it on a daily Yeah, and just sitting right near these lows I mean we're a full point off of the lows that we've had but man You're pushing some pretty lofty yields as we're talking about 1.8 percent and Seems like the trend is to higher yields folks to put it lightly 1.78 as I speak right now to be exact 1.78. All right, let's jump around. We also have PayPal disappointing in a big way down 22.3% folks my goodness this company talk about a rise and fall PayPal. Whoops. Come on There we go PayPal shares dive 22% after the company blames inflation per week guidance There's a lot of excuses right now, but the market ain't buying it and even if it is it don't care man lower prices are coming So the company took a measured approach to guidance but expects revenue to accelerate in the second half of the year They're trying to use the Low expectations right Over under under promise over deliver That's what he's trying to say missed user growth targets due in part to 4.5 million illegitimate accounts that join the platform They're dealing with fake accounts on play PayPal now And getting into it reporting 6.9 2 billion in revenue a slight beat Earnings 1 111, but you're talking about guidance folks. 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That's tfnn.com then hit watch Tiger TV Welcome back folks. I got a chart of crude oil up here crude up 48 pennies trading in 88 68 We make it to a high of 89 72 this morning for light sweet crude almost hitting that $90 mark and then trading is slightly lower But man quite an acceleration. Let's jump over to our man. Teddy keg stat We talked to Teddy every Wednesday folks at 40 past the hour You can reach Teddy every trading day at 4x dash trading dash unlock calm teddy keg stat. Good morning. Good morning, Tommy So I like to kick things off with crude because it seems like every day we talked to you on Wednesdays, man We got new highs and we got a new high today, man of 89 72 I had the headline we talked about earlier OPEC agreeing on another gradual oil output But they almost can't keep up with what they want to in terms of supply. What's your take on this crude market, Teddy? We're gonna keep on climbing, baby Just keep on going higher and higher and higher so and as far as OPEC, you know And they could put they could pump the as much as they wanted to if they really wanted to but they want to make money Why would you try and increase supply at just under a hundred dollar? Barrel oil, you know, especially when it was trading in the 20s just a year and a half ago, you know, so I mean, right? I mean, why would you for sure? There's a reason why monopolies? Yeah are illegal exactly And and you know, it's it's they're illegal in the US. We can't make them illegal across the whole World, but yeah, I mean they basically have a monopoly They all collude together to make sure that they get the best deal they can for their product And yeah, why would you want to flood the market when you're getting 90 bucks? It looks like it's just going straight up from here. I agree man. Sure. Sure Where do you want to kick things off on currency, Teddy? We have some movement this week But what are you looking at at the top of the driving the action in the forex market right now? Well, you know, if you look at what's happened since we talked last The markets are basically even including oil are right basically where they were when we had our conversation last week You know, so we had a breakout of the US dollar on Wednesday and Thursday last week Spike tie on Friday and now we're coming back now Everyone's always always likes to put doom and gloom on the dollar I really would view what's going on right now is a retracement and if you look at both the euro US dollar and the pound US Dollar which are the two biggest weights in the dollar index. They're totally in line with the dollar index right now so you've already had what is it a You're in between the 50% and the point 618 retracement for both the dollar index the euro US dollar and the pound US dollar Also, you have the US dollar yen that has done the same. This is all Happening sign simultaneously today. Okay, and they all topped out or bottomed out versus the dollar on Friday Okay, so the dollar index remember how I've been saying you can't really rely on that You know because of the of all the differences of what's going on the imbalances going on around the different currencies in the short run Right now we have them all working together Okay, this is a short-run thing and I view it only that's why I'm saying don't try and pick a top or a bottom like Okay, I'll tell you what I'm not trying to pick a top and oil anytime soon I wouldn't try and pick a top in the dollar either remember that we're coming off of a higher move high Higher move highs higher move lows are indicative of what a bull trend same as the opposite for bears So all the currencies right now are trending so they're all in a countertrend trade right now Okay, so I'm just trying to be very clear when it comes to no matter which Forex cross You're looking at even the Australian dollar US dollar. They're coming off of a major new move low Okay, so this is an upside correction that's going on. You know, it's not about dollar weakness right now I think it's a lot of profit-taking you got to remember as you push trends Why wouldn't the longer-term traders take some profit? That's how they nibble out and nibble back in You know because they've been in it for the whole time. They're working that trade, you know So I would be very cautious moving forward after today and tomorrow that it's very possible to see reversal in dollar strength come raging back Yeah, I mean I was jumping around to some three-year weekly charts And really you only got to go back about a year or so to see and the trend is pretty intact man I hear you I mean we have some bounces But you put this thing on a weekly going back about a year and I was jumping around whether it was the Euro Whether it was the yen when there's even the pound And yeah, you're seeing action, but basically you're seeing action within the trend Right on that longer-term basis for sure You had mentioned you're not selling on a crude So here's and I know you're looking for higher prices than a hundred bucks, but let's say you have been long crude as investors I'm sure we have investors out there that have been long crude What are you gonna start to look at because I've started to do this in my head like okay? I think you've been calling a hundred bucks We got to go back to the to the tape man and find when the first time you put out that hundred buck mark because it was a January I think it was January every year ago was around then little it was run to you man Heck of a call and it's still going So let's say we make it to a hundred bucks. What do you start looking at? And I know you've said previously if people listening that you're looking for much higher prices than that But what do you start to look at in that market Teddy as we get to a hundred bucks that maybe like you're talking about people nibbling in the Forex market to people start nibbling and maybe selling up there Or what are you looking as we maybe approach those levels that seem I don't want to call them inevitable because we know how the market goes But that is where the trend is going right now for sure. Sure. That's you know, that's a fantastic question Now when it comes to the oil, I think definitely once we approach this 95 to 105 area We're hitting that threshold. I mean remember that oil has been up at 150 a barrel before Okay, and you think about the price of gas when it was there Especially in a state like Illinois. We have higher taxes on our gas than we did 20 years ago Okay, 15 years ago So just that point alone as gas gets or as oil preaches gets above a hundred dollars and stuff like that that inflationary Price point right there restricts the economy Then you throw in the inflation we already have and how it's going to compound even more and solidify the inflation of goods and Services that this is going to start to really put a lag on the economy You know, I really think the people are going to start tightening up their bootstraps because one the free money is over Time to pay the piper and everything's getting more and more expensive So I think you're gonna see you know how everything's opening up I don't think people are gonna be going out as much as you think, you know I mean it's gonna be very expensive moving forward through the next at least no matter what there's Not gonna be a retraction or any type of deflation for at least six months in the economy Okay, so as we come into summer when you think everyone's gonna break out and go outside I think we're gonna see what we saw during COVID of 20 of 2020 You're gonna see a lot of people having parties in their backyard. They're not gonna be going out to restaurants They're just not, you know, you can't afford it. Yeah, you know I mean it's it's it's a sticker shock everywhere and it's not gonna get any better anytime soon, you know I'm now here's the thing though. If oil Retraces solidly off of you know, I mean, here's the thing if Biden would reverse January 20th of 2021 This just would change overnight and literally within months The oil factor wouldn't be there anymore because we would see what crude oil trading at 35 40 dollars a barrel It would try if you what what was the if what would happen if if he would overturn everything that he did on January 20th of 2020, you know the mandates against the oil industry You said 2021 I suppose 2021 is yeah, I'm sorry 2021 So okay unless that happens which that would retract oil, but that's not gonna happen So unless we become a big producer of oil again and start pumping it out there for us You know build up our stocks really quickly and that would retrace things But that's the only factor that would do that, you know So otherwise we're gonna hold when we're at and we'll be at 150 in another year, you know That's not and that would only only be like a 45 to 50 percent appreciation from where we're at now Not as big as what we've seen in the last year, you know We've seen more than a hundred percent price increase in oil, you know, we've seen 300 percent, you know So yeah, just if you look at it, we're actually slowing down, but we're slowing down into a buffer zone It's gonna be really hard on the economy, you know And remember I've been telling you for months I went back in the fall I'm like the major economic numbers are now the numbers to watch on employment, you know I mean CPI PPI these are things that matter. So thanks Teddy man great great segment man. I appreciate it always on Wednesday's folks check out Teddy's website 4x-trading-unlock.com Can't wait to see where we are next Wednesday, Teddy always Quite an eventful Yeah, and still going to 122 there we go folks. 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That's<PHONE_NUMBER> This segment is brought to you by Think or Swim For more information just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN.com Welcome back folks and we got a special guest who do we got? We got our man Tommy O'Brien the Ford Say hi to everybody buddy. He's got his phone folks. He's ready and you check out. He's not going to be happy We're taking his phone. What's your show today, buddy? What's it say? Year of the Tiger folks 2022. It's his birthday. Happy birthday, buddy One year old Tommy O'Brien. So he wanted to say hello to everybody. He's coming making some appearances We're going to get him a show slated For TFNN coming in the year 2029. Maybe we'll get his program up there But he's ready. He's ready for the year of the Tiger.   Tell him, buddy. Tell him. Yes. Yes Yes, he's excited too. He's excited. Huh. Are you excited for your birthday? He's even got a little tiger pacifier folks. Can't beat it. Happy birthday my man The market folks can't beat the market right now. He's there. S&P's giving it back But we're still up by 18 points. You get the NASDAQ 100. What's it up, buddy? It's up 102.  Maybe the 150 bucks a pop instead of 3000. We're trading at 29 77 Google's still up 8% right now. We jump over to Facebook. How's meta doing Tommy? You're going to be living in that virtual reality world when you're can you imagine folks? Can you imagine? This is what I try and do. Can you imagine what kids these days? Can you imagine what the world's going to be like when he's just my age? 41 years old What's it going to be like? I mean there's going to be flying cars We probably will have virtual reality. We're in suits It's almost impossible to imagine what the world is going to be like at that time But it's coming. It's coming in a big way. One year old the year that's hired gotta love that outfit Look at those chunky thighs. Oh, yes. Tell him buddy. Tell him. He's excited too. He's excited He's a dancing man, huh? Tell him he wants to do everything buddy.  He's got it all.  What do you do? All right folks stay tuned. Thanks so much for tuning in. We got our man Basil Chapman coming up next With the Tiger Technician Zara. Is Basil coming up next? He is. Are you playing peek-a-boo? He loves peek-a-boo. Where'd he go? Tommy, there he is. You say goodbye to everybody. Can we wave bye? Say bye Say bye. Say bye everybody. Great Wednesday


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All right, so it looks like we just had an epic teaser dropped by Canada's Wonderland and it is full of information. So let's dive in a little deeper and analyze this teaser. So the most important one is the 815, what could Canada's Wonderland be? Announcing question mark. On Saturday, July 21st, Canada's Wonderland began what seems to be secretive marketing campaign around the construction near Splashworks. Question is that it might be a roller coaster or a mountainous 213 foot water slide with a coaster lift hill. Another rumor is saying that season pass holders will be getting a golden opportunity to have early access to the park on August 15th to peek inside the construction fence and see what this new project is all about. Now a couple things is the mountainous mention and we already know that there were some teasers for a mountain in previous teasers and the biggest one is 213 feet. So the other day, if you notice, we started like really pulling back on our height in our like last couple of videos and we were talking about it's probably going to be around the same height as Val Raven. Well, it looks like they wanted to keep Val Raven's height record and keep Val Raven as the king of dive coasters in terms of height and this matches up. So I think 213 feet is definitely going to be the height of our coaster. But don't be too upset because 213 feet tall definitely makes our coaster the largest drop on a dive coaster in the world. So that's a really exciting title to hold on its own. So don't be too upset and we know that this has a very unique layout. So it's not going to be your Val Raven clone. It's not going to be a dive coaster clone. It's going to be a unique layout on a dive coaster. So don't panic. This is good news, but I'm definitely going to say that 213 feet is the height of the lift hill and that it'll probably have about 230 to 250 foot drop depending how deep that valley actually is and how deep that tunnel is. It all depends on that. But what's also interesting in this teaser is under tickets, you can see find the best deals on amusement park tickets and access to more than 16 roller coasters and so much more. So we know that there's going to be more coming with this announcement. We've been predicting that for a while. Gold Pass is one of them. Winter Fest is the other. And there's rumors about restaurants and maybe a kid's thing along with it. Who knows? This is probably an expansion more so than just a roller coaster. You can also see that they edited under season passes. Enjoy early ride times, unlimited visits, but when it turns to gold, you receive more than the regular season. So we know that Canada's Wonderland is probably launching the gold season pass. We've been talking about that quite a bit and what the perfect year to launch it. So you're launching your whole what looks like a golden eagle type attraction. So the golden eagle roller coaster, whatever the name ends up being, it definitely looks like our bird theme is going to be an eagle. As we called it, it's not a mistake that they put a golden eagle on their advert. They wouldn't do that for Ziz. As you saw with the teaser poster for Wonder Mountain Guardian, they're able to make a monster for the teaser poster if they really want to. They're not going to go randomly get a golden eagle for the teaser poster. If it's not going to have something to do with that. So as we called, we don't think this ride is going to be themed to Ziz in the end. Ziz is the king of birds, and this isn't the king of birds in terms of height. And Ziz, as a description, is the height of, well, the same size as Leviathan. And this isn't going to be the same size as Leviathan, which is totally fine. It's a totally different style roller coaster and it doesn't need to do the same thing Leviathan did. So this is all really exciting. I have a feeling we're missing a few things here too. So we looked over everything that they edited. So for some reason they edited this description and we didn't really get much out of it. So feel free to comment if we missed anything. But for fans of Skyrider, 23 million of whom rode the coaster since it opened for business in May 1985 for decision. The decision to close the ride on Labor Day was not an easy one. So that's Dave Phillips, the head of marketing, VP. So I don't really see much that we maybe missed there, except for maybe the ride cost 23 million. That's the only thing I could possibly pull out of that sentence. We know the announcement's on August 15th. Amusement Insiders has a really cool surprise for you on August 15th. So stay tuned. You are not going to miss what we have to announce on that. We will be announcing in the coming days what we have planned for this. But yeah, it's really exciting and it's an exclusive. So this is where the glass shatters. And I want to discuss this a little. It could be nothing, but usually when the glass ceiling is broken or the glass shattered, especially with announcements, it usually means there's going to be some records broken. And this is an interesting topic of discussion because we know that based off of a tweet that Wonderland, well, Dave Phillips from Wonderland posted in response to one of mine about which record. If there was a record, it could break. Which would you like it to be? Which is a great question. And you guys should ask yourself that as well. But I definitely think there's going to be one, two or three records broken. I mean, it's obvious that we're going to see Canadian records broken. I mean, this ride's going to break every Canadian record in terms of a dive coaster because it's the only one. But I have a feeling there's going to be like one, two or three world records broken with this coaster. I don't think it's going to beat the inversion records, but I am hoping for a fourth inversion. I'm really hoping for that. And I definitely think it's going to beat the drop record at this point with a 213 foot tall lift hill. It definitely breaks the drop record. So thank you to Cedar Fair for at least giving Wonderland that.  Like they couldn't just go beat it. Like another theme park is going to come along now in the future and take that record away eventually. And it just would have been smarter to break their own record at this point since, you know, dive coasters are becoming extremely popular models in the theme park industry. So eventually someone's going to break it. Anyways, what do you guys think? Do you think it's going to be Golden Eagle? Do you think it's going to be Klondike Gold Rush? Or do you think it's going to be Zizz? And what do you think about the information in this teaser? Comment down below what you guys think. I want to hear from you. This is also exciting. And stay tuned for our stream tonight at 8 30 p.m. And then stay tuned any day now for an exciting announcement from amusement insiders. Have a good one. Bye.


I always describe it as a process where information is gathered and analysed on, for example, school inputs, processes and outcomes, which could be the quality of teaching and learning or student learning outcomes and that can be analysed for both teachers, classrooms or schools and on an aggregated level even for looking at district or system level quality and that information is collected by actors and those can be both internal to the school such as teachers, school leaders or school boards even or it can be collected externally by school inspectors or supervisors on the district level for example and that collection of information can be done through various devices such as testing, lesson observation or document analysis and the purpose of all that is to make informed decisions, decisions on which on how to improve the school, where improvement is needed, how to improve teaching in the classroom or perhaps organise assessment differently or organise the school differently with the purpose of improving student learning outcomes, it can also inform decision making on the system level such as where national governments of education use that level, that aggregated information from schools to decide on where resources need to be allocated and it can also inform parental school choice such as when inspectors of education publish reports on school quality and parents use that information to decide on a school for their children so a very broad term that captures various types of evaluation but this framework really allows us to understand the key elements of what quality assurance includes so before the pandemic we already saw move to more emphasis on school evaluation how that was included in external inspection increasingly where inspectors of education would use that information to to judge school quality we also saw of a move towards more an improvement a role of inspectors of education more so than control and an intense use of data in evaluations as well we've also seen the development of peer-to-peer models where schools would evaluate each other's work and where that would feed into external inspections the conversations that we've had with in external inspectors of education is that they expect to prolong that function particularly because schools are currently facing such challenges in also reducing potential achievement gaps addressing issues around inequality and where a sole control function is just not considered feasible in reducing those gaps and obviously what we mean by support here is not that inspectors of education are providing advice to schools on how they should improve but support should be considered more broadly in terms of sharing good practice providing evaluated feedback whereas the school would decide on how to specifically use that information so there's quite a lot of talk about building back a better system in response to the pandemic where good practices in schools are sustained through evaluation and some of those good practices would be where schools have actually developed high quality models of blended teaching and learning where they've also improved what we call educational partnerships with parents home school partnerships where they've also kind of invested in developing students executive skills where they would be able to self-regulate your learning much better what we also see is that given the concerns over high inequality potential learning loss and concerns over well-being of students these issues cannot be addressed by schools alone it requires partnerships with parents to begin with but also with other parents with other partners in a local context such as those providing youth services for example there's this great saying that goes it takes a village to raise a child and that really highlights the relevance of including partnerships and evaluation as well


Hi everybody, it's Thursday. We're talking markets with Jim Kramer on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange or Jim AT&T Boeing and Comcast sharing some of that tax savings with employees. Now there are people who are cynical and say obviously this is just some gesture. I don't know if you're making 40 Gs it ain't a gesture. It's meaningful. And I think that sometimes I don't want to question why they do it. I just want to salute companies that give more money to the workers and all these have done that. Now there's also some cynicism as to if these companies just do buybacks and dividends but hey, as you're writing real money, that's good for stocks. Well, I'm coming with a thesis that is reminiscent of when I started the street. First started paper writing about it in 1995, launch in 1996. Pioneer. Yes, because what we were doing is saying, look, the people who own stock have gone from about 50% to 70% and we thought it might go to 80-90 and if that had been the case we'd all be sitting here saying, you know what, this is the greatest thing, buybacks and dividends could put money into many people's pockets. Now it's down to about 50% so it's only putting money in half the people's pockets and then when you look at who does own it, it is the wealthy. So I think if we could educate people more financially which is why we started the street if we could somehow get people to save more except for the obvious, the working poor who can't, of which there are substantial hope they benefit then we would reverse that and suddenly we'd be thinking, well, you know what, we're putting money in people's pockets because a lot of people own stock and this is a good thing. So I'm calling for financial education out of Washington, financial education in the state basis so that people can take advantage of this. Otherwise, the cynical is true, stocks are held more by wealthy people but it doesn't have to be that way, we just need to educate.  You know, they're the greatest wealth-creator in history and I think that, you know, it is very hard to make this point. Post the NASDAQ crash in 2000 and post the Great Recession but Jeremy Siegel has done amazing work in stocks for the long run, a friend of my dad because they lived in the same building in the side of the towers in Philadelphia and that's a remarkable book and it tells you about how much wealth is created by stocks.  You just got to get more people to benefit and that's really the issue for me. I can't change the tax code. I can't change what the companies do but maybe we can help educate people that this may be the preferred way to create wealth and if we do that, we really create a good ripple effect. I think a lot of people around my age are scared of stocks because of the 2008 recession. It makes a ton of sense. No, but I understand because it's like living through the great crash in 29. My grandparents, we didn't have a lot of money but you knew when you were growing up, you just heard about the great crash, great crash, great crash. Now I'm older but the great crash was very much in the minds of my father's generation and of course his parents' generation and I'm afraid that's happened again and we must work mightily to change that since people make so little money even if they compound at the Treasury level. So I think that missing in all of the hoopla Democrat and Republican is how to get people to save better so they can take advantage of whatever the company is doing. Alright, well we hope people follow this advice. Yes. Jim, let's move on to individual stocks. The finish line with some nice same store sales. To read, well, finish line I think can go higher. Remember, Footlocker had one day and then a lot of people thought it had to be over and there were multiple days. I think the same thing could happen in a more muted way to finish line. Obviously Nike reports tonight, this is a good sign for Nike but let's take a look at what they said they're doing and they're in a lot of Macy's and they're seeing almost 3% comp store sales here every year in Macy's. Now you can say, well everybody's going to Macy's to buy sneakers or you can say maybe Macy's traffic has picked up. People are looking for almost minus two comp stores for Macy's. A read through for Macy's from finish line would make you buy Macy's and don't forget they've got almost 6% yield and the cash flow does cover the dividend. And I think they would also benefit from tax reform the retail sector overall. Yeah, definitely. Now, if you look at Bed Bath, the analysts have given up on it. They don't like it. So you could argue if Mr. Gannett at Macy's doesn't have a solution for the internet and Amazon, it could be treated like Bed Bath so I don't want to get people too excited but I think you'll hear first about comp store sales and I don't think the analysts are as negative about Jeff Gannett, the new CEO as they are about the group that's running Bed Bath which they regardless the gang that could shoot string. Alright Jim, Facebook under fire for some age discrimination and ads, what did you think? I mean look, I just think it's a broader theme. The notion these very powerful companies have to be more responsible than companies like newspapers and I think that a lot of these companies Facebook, Amazon, Google which now what they don't get is that the analogues to the old world are not respected. So let's say the New York Times did what Facebook's doing I think they would, no one would care. But Facebook's so powerful every move they make is under scrutiny and they've got to start being aware of that. They need a chief risk officer, risk being what the government might do to them. And I think there's debate over whether Facebook should be responsible for this or the employers themselves. I think it's the employers. But I live in a rational world. Alright Jim, meanwhile what do you have coming up on ManMoney today? Well we have, you know there's this company called Long Island Ice Tea which became Long Island Blockchain. A very cynical move I think, small, small company. And I bring that up as a segue to having American having a Nico Eagle on. Why? Because I think Americans are fascinated by Blockchain so a really good survey by Steve Leesman yesterday about that. Well, they're fascinated by Bitcoin which in the Blockchain angle. And I want to find out whether Ignico feels that maybe gold is no longer this storehouse of wealth as it has been for 4,000 years. I'm asking about gold's relevance to Ignico. I also wanted to see on from Paychex that's important because if there's real job creation why were the numbers not better let's find out. And then I have a company called Ansys. I'm always interested in computer aided design computer aided modeling all the desks had that weaker quarter. Let's see what these guys are doing. They're spending a lot to be able to make their model better but it's been hurting their core business. Alright, big show tonight. 6 p.m. Eastern on CNBC. Thank you. So many more stocks to talk about. We're going to continue on ActionAlertsPlus.com. And I really just want to emphasize we're doing some good stuff here for club members and we just keep layering on things for club members. I'm appealing to you because you're probably, you may be a club member, maybe not. But you know we added a great inbox and we did monthly calls. And now we're starting to do economic bulletins besides just companies and now we've added a TV show. I think you're getting pretty good value for your money. I'm having a lot of fun. Thanks.


Hi Abigail, this is Dr. Don. I want to review your last problem in M3A1 because you have some mistakes with it. Let me show you something that you might want to try. I want to expose the formulas that you've used over here in the cells in D1 so I can check them. I'm going to click in that first cell, click equal, and that's her typing F-O-R-M formula text, and double click that to enter it. And we need to give it the cell reference of the cell we want to look at the formula for, so I'm going to click right there adjacent to it, and then click enter. And it shows me the formula that's in that cell. Now I'm going to just take that and drag it down here for those five cells, and you can see we've got the formulas in the first four, and of course the N-A tells us that's not a formula, that's just 150 which you entered in there. I noticed on some of your other work that you aren't really paying enough attention to the punctuation, if you will, in these formulas. Remember on your first submittal you made a typo in these first three, you corrected that, but you didn't correct the typo in this one. See it's an A2, 50,000-1, of course there's only 5,000-1 rows in our data, but it should work if you put the colon in there. I'm going to click in that cell, go up there, backspace over your comma, hit the shift, and hit the colon, and now it works. We've got the count in there, which is what you want. So be very careful when you're doing these things to make sure that you're getting punctuation, and use that formula text to help you see what you've done in these cells. Okay, now to the histogram itself, you did a good job of setting up the lower limits, did that just right? Upper limits, you did it just right too, but if you notice on the 30th bin, you've got zero for the upper limit, and the reason for that is, remember, this formula depends on this cell, and you don't have a value there. So you need to do is click back there, drag it down one more to get one more lower limit, and of course that gives you the upper limit for the 30th bin. Now you've got what you need to use a data analysis. You went in here and you tried to create a new set of uppers, and I don't know what you did there, and I don't know what you did to get these, but they're not correct. So let's just go back, and we're going to go to data, data analysis. We're going to go to histogram, I'm going to click OK, and we need to get our data in there. I'm going to delete the old data out of there. Okay, now I'm going to click in there, get the input range, and I'm going to go over here to A2, and one way you can get to the bottom of a long set of data is to go to control, shift, down era, and it takes you down to the bottom. Now it's a little more difficult to get back up. There are some control keys, but I find a lot of students in the first learning will mess that up. So I'm just going to go over here and drag my cursor back to the top. That way I don't mess up my range. I'm going to click on my bin range, and then I'm going to go over here and select these upper limits. They work just fine, and we're going to go down to the last upper limit for bin 30, and that gives me the range that I need. I don't have labels in there, I'm going to uncheck that, and my output range, I'm going to use that S2. I've got the cumulative percentage checked, and the chart output checked, and I'm going to click OK. And there we get our data, and we've got the beginnings of the histogram, and it's pretty well done, except remember there's no spaces. So again, click on one of the bars, right click, whoop, right click, Format Data Series, and then we go over here and get rid of that gap. I'm going to go here to the paint bucket and border, and I want to change that border to black so it shows up, so I can see my individual ones, and then I'm going to just close that out. And that's got the histogram pretty well done. Of course you need to give it a better name, but overall that is pretty done going complete on the histogram. So I'm going to stop here in the histogram. The next part we'll talk about these empirical counts and how to get those correct. Hope this helps.


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