Saturday 2 November 2024

Special Update 02/11/2024 US Stocks, Fantasy and Rigging. E-Day +3.

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Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the Chancellor had “front loaded” calculations around additional spending in her Budget and it was likely that they “will in fact increase more quickly than supposedly planned after next year”. 

“I’m afraid this looks like the same silly games playing as we got used to with the last lot,” he said at the IFS’s breakdown of the Budget today. “Pencil in implausibly low spending increases for the future in order to make the fiscal arithmetic balance.” 

Reeves playing ‘same silly games’ as her predecessors, IFS says

In the US stock casinos ahead of next Tuesday’s US elections, fantasy and rigging.

In the real US economy, a dire US jobs report.  US Federal debt reaches almost 36 trillion!!!

Dow closes nearly 300 points higher to begin November as investors shake off weak jobs report: Live updates

Updated Fri, Nov 1 2024 5:15 PM EDT

Stocks rallied Friday to kick off November as Amazon led big technology stocks into the green and traders looked past a disappointing jobs report.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 288.73 points, or 0.69%, ending at 42,052.19. The S&P 500 advanced 0.41% to close at 5,728.80, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.8% to 18,239.92.

Amazon rallied 6.2% as strength in the cloud and advertising businesses propelled the e-commerce giant above Wall Street’s earnings expectations. Intel popped 7.8% after exceeding analysts’ forecasts for revenue and offering strong guidance. The two stocks helped lift investor sentiment following some notable earnings disappointments this week.

Megacap tech stocks are still “the tail wagging the dog,” said Rob Williams, chief investment strategist at Sage Advisory. “You’re seeing some broadening, but it’s still such a massive component right now.”

Meanwhile, the jobs report released Friday showed the U.S. economy added just 12,000 jobs in October, far below the Dow Jones estimate of 100,000. This marked the weakest level of jobs creation since December 2020. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%, in line with estimates. However, traders were not reacting too much to the jobs figures, believing the dismal data was affected by hurricanes and a Boeing strike.

“Friday’s jobs report showed that the labor market decelerated quite significantly in October compared to September,” said Clark Bellin, president and chief investment officer at Bellwether Wealth. “But this was a noisy number largely due to hurricanes and labor strikes, so it’s unlikely that this weakness is going to cause the Federal Reserve to pivot away from its expected 25 basis point rate cut at the November meeting.”

In addition to the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5., which has led to elevated volatility, investors are also looking toward the Fed’s two-day policy meeting on Nov. 6-7.

The major averages are wrapping up a choppy week. The S&P 500 lost 1.4% in the period, while the Nasdaq slid 1.5%. Postearnings slumps in Microsoft and Meta Platforms weighed on the indexes. The 30-stock Dow inched down 0.2% week to date.

The strong start to November comes after a difficult October for the market. The 30-stock Dow pulled back 1.3% in October. The broad market index fell 1% in that time, while the Nasdaq dropped 0.5%.

Stock market news for November 1, 2024

Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing rival chipmaker Intel

Published Fri, Nov 1 2024 5:22 PM EDT Updated Fri, Nov 1 2024 6:01 PM EDT

Nvidia is replacing rival chipmaker Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a shakeup to the blue-chip index that reflects the boom in artificial intelligence and a major shift in the semiconductor industry.

Intel shares were down 1% in extended trading on Friday. Nvidia shares rose 1%.

The switch will take place on Nov. 8. Also, Sherwin Williams will replace Dow Inc. in the index, S&P Dow Jones said in a statement.

Nvidia shares have climbed over 170% so far in 2024 after jumping roughly 240% last year, as investors have rushed to get a piece of the AI chipmaker. Nvidia’s market cap has swelled to $3.3 trillion, second only to Apple among publicly traded companies.

Companies including Microsoft, MetaGoogle and Amazon are purchasing Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs), such as the H100, in massive quantities to build clusters of computers for their AI work. Nvidia’s revenue has more than doubled in each of the past five quarters, and has at least tripled in three of them. The company has sginaled that demand for its next-generation AI GPU called Blackwell is “insane.”

With the addition of Nvidia, four of the six trillion-dollar tech companies are now in the index. The two not in the Dow are Alphabet and Meta.

While Nvidia has been soaring, Intel has been slumping. Long the dominant maker of PC chips, Intel has lost market share to Advanced Micro Devices and has made very little headway in AI. Intel shares have fallen by more than half this year as the company struggles with manufacturing challenges and new competition for its central processors.

Intel said in a filing this week that the board’s audit and finance committee approved cost and capital reduction activities, including lowering head count by 16,500 employees and reducing its real estate footprint. The job cuts were originally announced in August.

The Dow contains 30 components and is weighted by the share price of the individual stocks instead of total market value. Nvidia put itself in better position to join the index in May, when the company announced a 10-for-1 stock split. While doing nothing to its market cap, the move slashed the price of each share by 90%, allowing the company to become a part of the Dow without having too heavy a weighting.

The switch is the first change to the index since February, when Amazon replaced Walgreens Boots Alliance. Over the years, the Dow has been playing catchup in gaining exposure to the largest technology companies. The stocks in the index are chosen by a committee from S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel

Reality.

Super Micro’s 45% plunge this week wipes out stock’s gains for the year

Published Fri, Nov 1 2024 1:37 PM EDT Updated Fri, Nov 1 2024 4:15 PM EDT

Super Micro investors continued to rush the exits on Friday, pushing the stock down another 11% and bringing this week’s sell-off to 45%, after the data center company lost its second auditor in less than two years.

The company’s shares closed at $26.05, wiping out all of the gains for 2024. The stock had peaked at $118.81 in March, at which point it was up more than fourfold for the year. Earlier that month, S&P Dow Jones added the stock to the S&P 500, and Wall Street was rallying around the company’s growth, driven by sales of servers packed with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence processors.

Super Micro’s spectacular collapse since March has wiped out roughly $55 billion in market cap and left the company at risk of being delisted from the Nasdaq. On Wednesday, as the stock was in the midst of its second-worst day ever, Super Micro said it will provide a “business update” regarding its latest quarter on Tuesday, which is Election Day in the U.S.

The company’s recent challenges date back to August, when Super Micro said it would not file its annual report on time with the SEC. Noted short seller Hindenburg Research then disclosed a short position in the company and wrote in a report that it identified “fresh evidence of accounting manipulation.” The Wall Street Journal later reported that the Department of Justice was in the early stages of a probe into the company.

Super Micro disclosed Wednesday that Ernst & Young had resigned as its accounting firm just 17 months after taking over from Deloitte & Touche. The auditor said it was “unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by management.”

A Super Micro spokesperson told CNBC that the company “disagrees with E&Y’s decision to resign, and we are working diligently to select new auditors.” Super Micro does not expect matters raised by Ernst & Young to “result in any restatements of its quarterly financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, or for prior fiscal years,” the representative said.

Analysts at Argus Research on Thursday downgraded the stock in the intermediate term to a hold, citing the Hindenburg note, reports of the Justice Department investigation and the departure of Super Micro’s accounting firm, which the analysts called a “serious matter.” Argus’ fears go beyond accounting irregularities, with the firm suggesting that the company may be doing business with problematic entities.

“The DoJ’s concerns, in our view, may be mainly about related-party transactions and about SMCI products ending up in the hands of sanctioned Russian companies,” the analysts wrote.

In September, the month after announcing its filing delay, Super Micro said it had received a notification from the Nasdaq indicating that its late status meant the company wasn’t in compliance with the exchange’s listing rules. Super Micro said the Nasdaq’s rules allowed the company 60 days to file its report or submit a plan to regain compliance. Based on that timeframe, the deadline would be mid-November.

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Super Micro's 45% plunge this week wipes out stock's gain for the year

Finally, is the US jobs market already rolling over?

U.S. economy added just 12,000 jobs in October, impacted by hurricanes, Boeing strike

Published Fri, Nov 1 2024 8:31 AM EDT

Job creation in October slowed to its weakest pace since late 2020 as the impacts of storms in the Southeast and a significant labor impasse dented the employment picture.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 12,000 for the month, down sharply from September and below the Dow Jones estimate for 100,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. In what had already been expected to be a downbeat report, October posted the smallest gain since December 2020.

The unemployment rate, however, held at 4.1%, in line with expectations. A broader measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons also was unchanged at 7.7%.

In the report narrative, the BLS noted that the Boeing strike likely subtracted 44,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector, which lost 46,000 positions overall.

Along with that, the report noted the impact of hurricanes Helene and Milton but said “it is not possible to quantify the net effect” of the storms on the jobs total.

Elsewhere, the bureau said average hourly earnings increased 0.4% for the month, slightly higher than the estimate, though the 4% 12-month gain was in line. The average workweek held steady at 34.3 hours.

Markets, though, largely ignored the bad news, with stock market futures poised for a strong open on Wall Street while Treasury yields plunged. The meager jobs numbers along with wages about in line with expectations help cement another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve next week.

“At first glance, October’s jobs report paints a picture of growing fragility in the U.S. labor market, but under the surface is a muddy report roiled by climate and labor disruptions,” said Cory Stahle, an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab. “While the impacts of these events are real and should not be ignored, they are likely temporary and not a signal of a collapsing job market.”

----The weak October report also included substantial downward revisions from previous months. August was cut to just a gain of 78,000 while September’s initial estimate came down to 223,000. Together, the net revisions lowered previously reported job creation totals by 112,000.

Health care and government again led job creation, respectively adding 52,000 and 40,000 positions. Several sectors, though, saw job losses.

In addition to the expected pullback in manufacturing, temporary help services saw a drop of 49,000. The category is sometimes seen as a proxy for underlying job strength and has seen a decline of 577,000 since March 2022, the BLS said.

Another leading sector, leisure and hospitality, saw a drop of 4,000, while retail trade and transportation and warehousing also reported modest declines.

In the household survey, which is used to calculate the unemployment rate, the hiring numbers were even weaker.

That showed 368,000 fewer people reported holding jobs and the labor force contracting by 220,000. Full-time employment declined by 164,000, while part-timers fell by 227,000.

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U.S. jobs report October 2024: Economy added 12,000 jobs, impacted by hurricanes, Boeing strike

Layoffs Surge In U.S. White-Collar Jobs As Rates, AI Alter Office Work

Nov. 01, 2024 3:40 AM ET

One in every four American workers who have lost their jobs this year worked in professional and business services, a sign that the white-collar labor market may be straining under the weight of high interest rates and that technological advances may already be making some workers obsolete.

In September, employers shed 497,000 professional and business services jobs - which includes accountants, consultants and legal workers - the highest for the group in nearly two years and more than any other sector during the month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Oct. 29.

Through the first nine months of 2024, professional and business service sector jobs accounted for more than 3.7 million of the nearly 14.9 million layoffs and discharges in the US.

While the exact causes of these job cuts remain unclear, it could reflect a cyclical weakness sparked by higher interest rates and overall restrictive monetary policy hindering investment and employment.

It may also reflect more structural changes, with the rising number of layoffs and stalling growth in the sector potentially connected to new technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, replacing white-collar workers and improving productivity with a smaller number of employees, said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter.

"If those trends stick in the coming months, even as interest rates fall and activity in various markets revives, that could be evidence in support of the theory that the economy is fundamentally changing due to new technologies," Pollak said.

The overall number of Americans employed in the professional and business services sector ballooned by nearly 3.8 million from April 2020 to over 22.9 million in April 2024, but growth has largely stagnated since, peaking just below 23 million in May 2024, where it has essentially stalled.

"While it is still well above the pre-COVID level, it is now clearly below the pre-COVID trend," Pollak said.

As growth has stalled, hiring in the sector has flattened, and layoffs and discharges have begun to climb. The 497,000 layoffs and discharges in September were the most for the sector since January 2023.

The professional and business services sector includes temporary help services and staffing firms that have seen a pullback in recent months and often see dynamic labor turnover, said Cory Stahle, an economist with Indeed Hiring Lab.

Overall, the jobs data shows a clear trend of cooling and rebalancing as job openings have fallen steeply from their peak in late 2021, Stahle said.

"That large peak gave the Federal Reserve a cushion to work with, but that is nearly spent," Stahle said. "The labor market is still relatively solid, but we are at a point where further cooling could become more worrisome and start impacting unemployment."

There were 7.4 million job openings in the US in September, the lowest number of openings since January 2021, the new data shows.

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Layoffs Surge In U.S. White-Collar Jobs As Rates, AI Alter Office Work | Seeking Alpha

Global Inflation/Stagflation/Recession Watch. 

Given our Magic Money Tree central banksters and our spendthrift politicians,  inflation/recession now needs an entire section of its own.

Retail footfall returns to downward trend after September spike

Friday 01 November 2024 6:00 am

After a brief rise in September, retail footfall has fallen again in October, as the number of feet on Britain’s streets returns to its downward trend.

Total UK footfall decreased by 1.1 per cent year on year in October, down from a rise of 3.3 per cent in September.

Many in the sector, which has been struggling with declining footfall, had hoped September’s rise marked the beginning of a more consistent uptick in traffic.

“While this will be disappointing for many retailers… it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise,” Andy Sumpter, Retail Consultant EMEA for Sensormatic, said.

“We expect to see a bumpy recovery as a myriad of market conditions – from the cost of living to shaky consumer confidence around the Budget – continue to make footfall performance volatile,” Sumpter added.

Consumer confidence had dipped ahead of the budget as Brits worried about potential increases to their tax bill. As it is, the only rise in tax which will affect most Brits – albeit indirectly – is the 1.2 per cent rise in employer national insurance contributions (NICs).

However, depending on who ends up paying for the tax, it could leave retail employers out of pocket.

MRI software found a similar dip in September, with their slightly softer figures showing a 0.6 per cent year on year drop in all UK retail destinations, led by a 0.8 per cent decline in high streets and 1.5 per cent in shopping centres. Retail parks saw footfall rise by 0.8 per cent.

Half-term move impacts footfall

The figures may not be as bad as they seem, with the year-on-year drop partially due to a shift in the school half term holidays, which this year spanned the final week of October and the first week of November. Last week, the holidays fell within the October reporting period.

Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: “October’s footfall figures showed a marginal decline compared to last year, primarily due to half-term moving out of the comparison.”

On a more positive note, Dickinson added that “retail parks continued to attract shoppers, as they saw positive footfall growth for the third consecutive month, [and] across England, the northern towns performed best, with Leeds and Liverpool seeing positive footfall last month.”

Plus, with Black Friday less than a month away and Christmas soon after that, retail stores and destinations are likely to see footfall rise as we head into November.

Retail footfall returns to downward trend after September spike

European Inflation Leaves ECB Rate Hawks Circling

October 31, 2024 at 6:07 PM GMT

Europeans are still feeling the pinch at grocery markets as food prices continue to surge. Inflation accelerated more than expected among the 20 countries that use the euro, bolstering the case of hawkish European Central Bank members who want to see only a gradual easing of credit conditions. Consumer prices rose 2% from a year ago in October, up from 1.7% the previous month and exceeding analysts’ estimates for a 1.9% increase, Eurostat reported today. A smaller decline in energy costs was a major driver behind the sticky inflation numbers, as was a 2.9% increase in the price for food. With new economic dangers looming, from widening wars to the potential return of Donald Trump,rates may be cut more slowly than some Europeans would like.

Rumbling bond giants began to digest the UK’s new budget presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves. Fund managers are weighing a package that points to substantially steeper government borrowing in the coming years, along with higher-than-expected inflation and growth forecasts. Bonds were whiplashed today as investors attempted to make sense of the ramifications and what it all means for monetary policy.

European Inflation Leaves ECB Interest Rate Hawks Circling - Bloomberg

Concerns growing at Wolfsburg amid crisis at owners Volkswagen

31 October 2024

Concerns are growing at VfL Wolfsburg amid the crisis at owners and German carmakers Volkswagen.

According to local newspapers, there's a major feeling of uncertainty among the club employees, while comments on the Volkswagen's intranet have questioned why the company can still afford "an expensive toy" like Wolfsburg, while thousands of jobs are under threat.

The firm's works council told VW employees at an event on Monday that the company intends to close at least three of its 10 plants in Germany and cut tens of thousands of jobs.

Mass lay-offs are planned as all remaining VW plants in Germany will be downsized under the plan from management.

Wolfsburg said in a statement that the club "is gearing its daily actions towards making a contribution to VW's major savings program."

“As a subsidiary of Volkswagen, it has always been our aim to use the resources made available to us efficiently and cost-effectively,” the statement read.

The relationship between Wolfsburg and VW is essentially based on two agreements.

A control and profit transfer agreement stipulates that the club must pass on all profits to its parent company if it sells a player. That was the case when Kevin De Bruyne was sold to Manchester City for €75 million ($81.5 million).

Conversely, VW also compensates Wolfsburg for all losses - as in the coronavirus pandemic or after particularly unsuccessful years.

The financial support from VW also comes in other forms, such as jersey advertising and the stadium's naming rights. Ahead of this season, the contributions amounted to almost €80 million.

The future of the relationship between Wolfsburg and VW amid the company's financial crisis is unclear, but the club has already changed its strategy, adopting measures such as primarily signing young players to develop them and sell them on at a high price.

Wolfsburg, like Bayer Leverkusen, who are owned by pharmaceutical giants Bayer, are granted a special exception from the 50+1 rule in German football.

The rule states that no shareholder can have more than 50% control of a professional German team.

Concerns growing at Wolfsburg amid crisis at owners Volkswagen

Covid-19 Corner       

This section will continue until it becomes unneeded.

More boosting of big pharma vaccines but no mention of boosting your vitamin D.

How to tell the difference between Covid, flu and RSV amid 'tripledemic' threat

It's important to get vaccinated and know the differences between each illness and its symptoms

18:10, 31 OCT 2024

With the arrival of colder temperatures, concerns are growing that a 'tripledemic' may be approaching with a potential surge in cases of Covid-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Health officials in Northern Ireland say flu and RSV activity continues to increase along with Covid. That's why it's important to get vaccinated and know the differences between each illness and its symptoms.

Recent data from UKHSA revealed that during the last two winters, there have been at least 18,000 flu-related deaths and more than 19,500 deaths linked to Covid-19 across the country.

Earlier this month it was confirmed that the highly transmissible new Covid XEC variant has been detected here in NI. According to the Public Health Agency, this latest strain, which is a combination of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 variants, is thought to be more transmissible due to its numerous mutations. . The most common variant at this time is KP.3.

It's thought to be so contagious due to the number of mutations it carries with experts believing it could become the dominant strain. It's thought to be responsible for around one in 10 cases of the virus in the UK.

The PHA has integrated influenza, RSV and Covid-19 epidemiology reporting into a new respiratory surveillance report to provide a single overview of these infections in NI, along with the number of care home outbreaks, hospital admissions and occupancy, and deaths.

In its latest respiratory surveillance report up to 30th October, the PHA said flu and RSV activity continued to increase across the majority of surveillance indicators while Covid increased across some surveillance indicators.

Of the 91 community-acquired emergency hospital admissions, 27 were Flu A, four Flu B, 33 were RSV and 27 were Covid. Community acquired emergency influenza and RSV inpatients increased but remains at low levels and there has been a stable trend in the number of community acquired emergency Covid inpatients in recent weeks.

Meanwhile 73 respiratory-associated deaths out of 326 all-cause deaths were reported (23.4%). In the week ending 18th October, 12 Covid-19 deaths out of 316 all-cause deaths were reported (3.2%).

Flu season typically reaches its highest point in December and January.

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How to tell the difference between Covid, flu and RSV amid 'tripledemic' threat - Belfast Live

Technology Update.

With events happening fast in the development of solar power and graphene, I’ve added this section.

Next-generation perovskite solar cell can absorb near-infrared light beyond the existing visible light range

1 November 2024

xisting perovskite solar cells, which are unable to utilize approximately 52% of total solar energy, have been improved upon by a Korean research team. The team has developed an innovative technology that maximizes near-infrared light capture performance while greatly improving power conversion efficiency. This greatly increases the possibility of commercializing next-generation solar cells and is expected to contribute to important technological advancements in the global solar cell market.

The research team of Professor Jung-Yong Lee of the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST and Professor Woojae Kim of the Department of Chemistry at Yonsei University announced on October 31 that they have developed a high-efficiency and high-stability organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell production technology that maximizes near-infrared light capture beyond the existing visible light range. Their study is published in the journal Advanced Materials.

The research team suggested and advanced a hybrid next-generation device structure with organic photo-semiconductors to complement perovskite materials limited to visible light absorption and expand the absorption range to near-infrared.

In addition, the researchers examined the electronic structure problem that mainly occurs in the structure and announced a high-performance solar cell device that dramatically solves this problem by introducing a dipole layer.

Existing lead-based perovskite solar cells have a problem in that their absorption spectrum is limited to the visible light region with a wavelength of 850 nanometers (nm) or less, which prevents them from utilizing approximately 52% of the total solar energy.

To solve this problem, the research team designed a hybrid device that combined an organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) with perovskite and implemented a solar cell that can absorb up to the near-infrared region.

In particular, by introducing a sub-nanometer dipole interface layer, they succeeded in alleviating the energy barrier between the perovskite and the organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ), suppressing charge accumulation, maximizing the contribution to the near-infrared, and improving the current density (JSC) to 4.9 mA/cm2.

The key achievement of this study is that the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the hybrid device has been significantly increased from 20.4% to 24.0%. In particular, this study achieved a higher internal quantum efficiency (IQE) than previous studies, reaching 78% in the near-infrared region.

In addition, this device showed high stability, showing excellent results of maintaining more than 80% of the initial efficiency in the maximum output tracking for more than 800 hours even under extreme humidity conditions.

Professor Lee said, "Through this study, we have effectively solved the charge accumulation and energy band mismatch problems faced by existing perovskite/organic hybrid solar cells, and we will be able to significantly improve the power conversion efficiency while maximizing the near-infrared light capture performance, which will be a new breakthrough that can solve the mechanical-chemical stability problems of existing perovskites and overcome the optical limitations."

More information: Min‐Ho Lee et al, Suppressing Hole Accumulation Through Sub‐Nanometer Dipole Interfaces in Hybrid Perovskite/Organic Solar Cells for Boosting Near‐Infrared Photon Harvesting, Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202411015

Next-generation perovskite solar cell can absorb near-infrared light beyond the existing visible light range


Next, the world global debt clock. Nations debts to GDP compared.

World Debt Clocks (usdebtclock.org)

This weekend’s music diversion. The Polish Great, Antoni Habel.  Approx. 5 minutes.

Sinfonia in F Major: I. Allegro molto

Sinfonia in F Major: I. Allegro molto

Antoni Habel

Antoni Habel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This weekend’s chess update. Approx. 10 minutes.

Fabiano Caruana vs Garry Kasparov || Chess 9LX 2024

Fabiano Caruana vs Garry Kasparov || Chess 9LX 2024

This weekend’s final, final technical diversion,. My thanks to Richard in Canada for sending it along. The US river transportation system explained.  Approx. 22 minutes.

How Inland Waterways Work

How Inland Waterways Work - YouTube

The incredible [EU] 61-mile-long ‘mini-Suez' canal that shields ships and goods from storms

27 October, 2024

Europe is home to its very own mini-Suez Canal that has been operating for over 100 years and sees as many as 130 ships every day.

The Kiel Canal, a 61-mile freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, was completed in 1895 and later widened. It connects the North Sea at Brunsbuttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau.

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The incredible 61-mile-long ‘mini-Suez' canal that shields ships and goods from storms

This weekend’s final diversion.  How HMS Dreadnought changed naval warfare for 40 years. Approx. 24 minutes.

How This Battleship Changed History | The Design of HMS Dreadnought

How This Battleship Changed History | The Design of HMS Dreadnought

As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.

Joseph A. Schumpeter.


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