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Cord-cutters rejoice! This weekend is a good time to score a great deal on all things streaming. We rounded up some of the best deals from across the internet, including from Amazon, Best Buy, and more. In fact, some are even all-time lowest prices on top streaming devices and services.
Keep reading for the best streaming deals this weekend below:
Amazon Fire TV Stick
Want to turn your old TV into a smart TV? Right now, you can get the Fire TV Stick for just $19.99, or half off, at Amazon. In fact, this is the all-time lowest price on this super popular streaming device. Just plug it into your TV's HDMI port to get instant access to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, of course Prime Video, and more. The Fire TV Stick even comes with an Alexa remote for hands-free navigation and voice control. So handy!
Shop it: Amazon Fire TV Stick, $19.99 (down from $39.99), amazon.com
TiVo Stream 4K
Fire TV doesn't do it for you? Best Buy has the TiVo Stream 4K Streaming Media Player on sale for $29.99, or $10 off its list price. It runs Android TV and comes with the TiVo app for easier navigation and search. Instead of scrolling through countless apps looking for something to watch, all of your streaming services funnel into one app.
The TiVo Stream 4K also comes with access to 30 days of fuboTV Pro and Showtime, as well as a three-month subscription to Apple TV+ (altogether a $96 value) — all for free!
Shop it: TiVo Stream 4K Streaming Media Player (Android TV), $29.99 (down from $39.99), bestbuy.com
Are you a fan of the NBA? Since the season is more than halfway over, you can score more than half off an NBA League Pass subscription. In fact, it's nearly 80% off! Right now, you can watch the rest of the season for just $49.99, or $14.99/mo, at nba.com. That's $150 off of the usual season subscription, or $14 off the monthly price. NBA League Pass also comes with NBA TV for more basketball programming and analysis. Please note: Local blackout restrictions apply.
Shop it: NBA League Pass, $49.99 (down from $199.99), nba.com
Roku Ultra
The Roku Ultra is one of the best streaming devices from the tech company, thanks to its speedy performance, 4K Dolby Vision picture quality, and voice remote with built-in headphone jack. Just plug in your headphones for private watching. It even comes with a pair of earbuds!
You'll get a slightly lower price at Amazon but if you opt to shop from Best Buy, the Roku Ultra comes with 30 days of access to fuboTV Pro (a $70 value), which is ideal for cord-cutters — thanks to more than 100 channels to watch.
Shop it: Roku Ultra, $69.00 (down from $99.99) amazon.com or $69.99 (down from $99.99) bestbuy.com
Sony X85J 65-inch 4K Ultra HD Smart Google TV
This weekend, you can score the Sony X85J 65-inch 4K Ultra HD Smart Google TV for $798, or $401.99 off, at Amazon. This is 33% off and the all-time lowest price on this massive 4K TV. At 65 inches, this 4K TV is Dolby Vision picture and Dolby Atmos audio compatible for immersive watching, while it also runs Google TV for quick access to streaming apps, such as Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, HBO Max, Hulu, YouTube, and much more.
Get it just in time for the Big Game in a few weeks. Hint: The game is live-streaming on the Peacock and NBC Sports apps, which are both available on this Sony 65-inch 4K TV.
Shop it: Sony X85J 65-inch 4K Ultra HD Smart Google TV, $798 (down from $1,199.99), amazon.com
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The 110th edition of the Australian Open is underway and the best tennis players in the world are competing for a total of $75 million in prize money. As the first Grand Slam of the year, the tournament features events for professional players in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles matches. The tournament is taking place at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and junior and wheelchair players will compete in singles and doubles tournaments.
This year's event is the 54th in the Open Era and is being played on a hard surface. 2021 Women's Singles winner Naomi Osaka was eliminated in the third round of this year's tournament. 2021 Men's Singles winner Novak Djokovic was not able to participate in his home country due to his vaccination status.
Usually, the tournament has over 800,000 fans in attendance, however, due to the pandemic, this year's capacity is 65%. Cord cutters can find out how to watch the 2022 Australian Open below.
Schedule, Times, & Where to Watch
Event Time (ET) Network
Second Week Highlights 2-3 PM ABC
Women's Doubles Championship 11 PM – 1 AM ESPN+
Match Time (ET) Network
Men's Championship Pre-Show 3-3:30 AM ESPN Deportes
Men's Championship 3:30-6:30 AM ESPN, ESPN+
Men's Championship 3:30 – 7:30 AM ESPN Deportes
Men's Championship 9 AM-1 PM ESPN2*
Men's Championship 6-10 PM ESPN2*
*encore or taped delay
Where to Watch the 2022 Australian Open
With a full schedule of tennis action this weekend, fans have plenty of choices when it comes to watching the rest of the 2022 Australian Open.
AntennaWeb is a great tool you can use to find out which affiliate in your area will broadcast the tennis matches on ABC.
ESPN+: Watch the 2022 Australian Open on ESPN+ for $6.99 per month, or save over 15% with an ESPN+ Annual Plan at $69.99 per year.
Disney Bundle: The Disney Bundle brings you ESPN+, Hulu, and Disney+ at a discounted price of $13.99/mo for Hulu (Ad-Supported) or for $19.99/mo. with Hulu (No Ads). The Bundle gives you access to everything on Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+. Hulu with Live subscribers can get the Disney Bundle and many live channels for $69.99 per month.
Subscribers to live TV streaming services can check out our chart below to see if your service will be streaming today's games.
Channel DIRECTV STREAM fuboTV Hulu with Live Sling Orange Vidgo YouTube TV
ABC X X X X X
ESPN X X X X X X
ESPN2 X X X X X X
ESPN Deportes $104.99 X +5/mo. w/ Add-on +$5/mo. w/ Add-on X X
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Apple TV+ was mentioned a lot during Apple's quarterly earnings call Thursday, and while the company doesn't release breakout numbers on revenue from the streaming service, the remarks were nothing but praiseworthy.
Overall, the company reported $19.5 billion in revenue for Apple services, which include the App Store, Apple TV+, iCloud, Podcasts, Apple Music, payment services and more, up 27% year over year. Overall, Apple pulled in $123.9 billion in sales for the quarter, beating analysts' $118.3 billion predictions.
Apple's total subscriber number for all services including Apple TV+ was 785 million last quarter.
Unlike other streaming service, CEO Tim Cook said the company's goal for Apple TV+ isn't necessarily centered around money.
"We don't make purely financial decisions about the content. We try to find great content that has a reason for being, and we love shows like Ted Lasso and several of the others as well that have a reason for existing and they have a good message, and they make people feel good at the end of it," said CEO Cook. "But I don't view that we have narrowed our universe of things we are selecting from. There is plenty to pick from out there, and I think we are doing a pretty good job of it as we speak."
"We wanted to give storytellers a place to tell original stories, and I feel really good about where we are today and the strategic position of the product," he said.
Apple TV+ shows and films have won nearly 200 awards and 900 total nominations.
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Discovery+ has announced its upcoming programming slate for February full of new and original titles. Highlights include new Shock Docs, Puppy Bowl Presents: The Winter Games for your daily dose of serotonin, and Profiled: A Black Man, a moving new series in which challenges and stereotypes Black men face are explored through powerful storytelling and impactful investigation. Uprooted tells the story of a sister up against a corrupt justice system to find out what really happened to her brother.
Titles premiering in February :
Million Dollar Wheels – Premiering February
This series follows a group of highly competitive luxury car dealers who specialize in making their clients' wildest dreams come true. But, in a world where supercars are posted on Instagram and sold the next day, luxury is not always pretty—especially when millions are on the line. In this business, everyone knows everyone, no one trusts anyone, and the stakes couldn't be higher. These are not your average car dealers. It takes a unique hustle to make the impossible, possible.
Profiled: The Black Man – Saturday, February 12
Through a powerful mixture of historical footage, real-life testimony, and commentary from an array of renowned thought leaders, Profiled: The Black Man aims to show the difficulties Black men have faced, both in the past and present-day, while also highlighting and celebrating the triumphs and resilience of countless extraordinary men. In addition, each episode will feature commentary from notable community members such as executive producer Tina Knowles-Lawson, civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, activist Tamika Mallory, hip-hop culture icon Sway Calloway, the Grammy, Emmy and Tony award-winning Billy Porter and more.
Secrets of the Salisbury Poisonings – Thursday, February 17
In 2018, double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in Salisbury, England. Now, the people involved and explosive new evidence tell the story of the tragic events that turned the small town into the center of a global murder plot.
Uprooted – Friday, February 18
Uprooted tells the story of Keith Warren, who was 19 years old when his body was found hanging from a tree in 1986. The police ruled it a suicide at the scene. The tree was cut down, his family was not informed for over six hours, no autopsy was performed and no criminal investigation was ever opened. Keith's sister, Sherri, has spent the last 34 years investigating her brother's death, and looking for closure. Closer than she's been in decades, Sherri is fighting a corrupt system in hopes of getting justice for her brother.
Puppy Bowl Presents: The Winter Games – Thursday, February 3
In this all-new special, five extraordinary teams of trainer and dog face off against each other to see who will be named the top canine athlete when it comes to showmanship and talent and take home the gold. Hosted by Kym Whitley, this all-new special is filled with high-stakes drama as each team competes in three rounds of increasing competition and challenges which includes a series of show-stopping trick combinations and an epic round of speed and agility. Each pair is judged for their unique skill set by a panel of judges that includes professional dog trainer Travis Brorsen, international trick dog trainer Sara Carson, and one special guest judge. The three best teams who move on to the final round will compete for the ultimate top dog prize of $5,000.00 to donate to their favorite animal charity.
Puppy Bowl Presents: Puppy Mania – Saturday, February 12
Puppy athletes and their amateur trainers adorably battle it out in three rounds of competition. Football running back Rashad Jennings joins comedian Kym Whitley and a panel of judges as they decide which pup has earned the Puppy Mania trophy!
My Pack Life – Sunday, February 13
Lee Asher is determined to build a modern-day Noah's Ark — The Asher House Sanctuary. He wants to provide a safe space for every single animal, no matter their shape, size, or species. His only rule? That they're an underdog, just like him. Lee recently packed up his 15 dogs and moved to 25 acres of lush Oregon land. He's building a sanctuary to care for dogs, horses, donkeys, cows, goats, pigs, llamas, sheep and even reptiles! Lee's mission is to rescue animals that have been discarded or unwanted and to provide them with a life of comfort, love and adventure.
Shock Docs: Alien Abduction: Travis Walton – Friday, February 18
In November 1975, six loggers in northeast Arizona witnessed their crewmate Travis Walton's abduction by UFO. The Walton story became an international sensation and ripped apart a small town. Four decades later, shocking new evidence reveals the true story behind Fire in the Sky.
Shock Docs: Alien Abduction: Betty & Barney Hill – Friday, February 18
In September 1961, newlyweds Betty and Barney Hill encountered a UFO on a deserted New Hampshire highway. When the story leaked, they gained fame as the first widely reported alien abductees. Compelling new evidence may prove the Hills' terrifying close encounter was real.
Destination Fear: Trail to Terror – Thursday, February 24
In his first-ever documentary and genesis for the hit TV series Destination Fear, Dakota Laden takes his sister Chelsea Laden and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Coalin Smith on a journey to test their limits of fear. Dakota does not tell anyone where they are going, just that they will be sleeping alone for five consecutive nights in five of the most haunted locations in America. What starts out as an experiment in fear turns into a real-life horror movie.
90 Day Journey – Friday, February 4
90 Day Journey is a one-stop place to watch 90 Day couples' love stories from the beginning to present day. Each curated miniseries is made up of every scene a couple has appeared in across all the shows in the 90 Day universe, giving fans the opportunity to watch each pair's story from the start. New updated episodes include fan favorite storylines for 90 Day singles, Ed, Natalie, Stephanie, Syngin and Jeniffer.
Farmer Wants a Wife – Wednesday, February 9
Six single farmers embark on a quest to find romance and, hopefully, everlasting love. The heat is turned up at each stage until one lucky lady is chosen for each farmer.
Secret Crush – Wednesday, February 9
Secret Crush gives love-sick singletons the chance to confess their true feelings to the object of their affection, potentially risking it all in the hope of winning love. Each episode sees a number of high-stakes dates between infatuated admirers and their unsuspecting crushes, but will love bloom, or crash and burn when the pairs finally meet?
The Cabins – Saturday, February 12
The Cabins is a new reality dating show where couples meet for an extended first date in luxurious and cozy log cabins in a stunning winter setting. Each episode follows three couples in separate cabins as they get to know each other. After 24 hours, they will decide whether to stay another day with each other or to leave the cabin, still single. After a number of days, they will have to check out of the cabin regardless and will choose whether or not to leave as an 'official cabins couple.'
Luda Can't Cook – Tuesday, February 15
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges is a legendary rapper, actor and restaurateur, and while he has always been passionate about food, there's one thing this multi-hyphenate can't do and that's cook. Now he's on a mission to change that with the help of some of the world's greatest chefs. Can he learn to master cuisines from around the world, or will his hopes go up in flames?
Discovering David Dobrik – Tuesday, February 15
In a vast departure from David's last adventure in the lavish city of Dubai, David and his friends head to South Africa to disconnect from the madness of big city life, and get in touch with their wild side. From the thrills of abseiling into a waterfall, to the stress of camping in the wild, the group runs the gamut of self-discovery in their next great adventure.
Magnolia Network
Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines (Season 5) – Friday, February 4
Infused with her warmth and passion for all things family, Joanna Gaines spends time in the kitchen sharing her favorite recipes, where they come from and why she finds herself returning to them time and time again.
(re)Motel (Season 2) – Friday, February 4
Passionate motel owners across America restore and redesign their historic properties to give them new life and create destination stops for a new generation of travelers.
First Time Fixer (Season 3) – Friday, February 11
First-time house renovators take their home renovation dreams into their own hands and experience the risk and reward that comes with trying something new.
Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things (Season 3) – Friday, February 18
Offering an in-depth look at how iconic American-made products are created, this series celebrates the ingenuity, passion and creativity of the people who proudly stand behind these timeless classics.
Van Go (Season 2) – Friday, February 25
Chewy Design Co. owner Brett Lewis renovates vans into tiny homes on the road, innovating creative solutions and tackling the many challenges that come with custom outfitting each vehicle for his clients' lifestyles.
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Today the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to move ahead with a plan to require broadband companies to display important plan information on easy to read labels so customers will know upfront what they're getting. This means big broadband names like Comcast and Verizon and will have to provide 'nutrition labels' disclosing things like speed, data caps, throttling and other management tactics, as well as introductory prices and later price hikes to customers at the time of sale.
the FCC has taken action on this "Broadband Nutrition Label" as part of the infrastructure law signed in November. The new ruling will make it easier for consumers to know at a glance what to expect from their broadband contract to eliminate surprises and hidden fees later on. Just like a nutrition label on a food item, consumers can make informed decisions and comparisons when shopping for an internet provider.
"Access to accurate, simple-to-understand information about broadband Internet access services helps consumers make informed choices and is central to a well-functioning marketplace," the FCC said in a press release on Thursday.
The idea of these labels has been circulating for years now but has never taken off until today. Somewhat surprisingly, the The NCTA, a trade group for broadband providers, endorsed the idea back in 2016 and have now issued a statement saying that they're still on board.
"Cable operators are committed to providing consumers with relevant information about broadband services," the NCTA said in a statement this week.
"The 'nutrition labels' we seek comment on today will help households compare prices and service offerings, making it easier for them to find the right package and the best deal," Democratic Commissioner Geoffrey Starks said in a statement on Thursday. "Arming consumers with better information will also promote greater innovation, more competition, and lower prices for broadband—wins for the entire broadband ecosystem."
The 4-0 ruling was passed today, but it will still be some time before these mandated labels go into effect.
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Army & Air Force Exchange Service and Comcast NBCUniversal are teaming up once again to give service members and honorably discharged Veterans full streaming coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The XXIV Olympic Winter Games will take place from February 2 to February 20, and military members will be able to stream the Beijing Games on their personal devices and computers through ShopMyExchange.com.
"We're excited to once again team with Comcast NBCUniversal to bring the Olympics to service members and their families, wherever they are called to serve," said Exchange Director/CEO Tom Shull. "The Olympics are like no other event, and we're pleased to play a part in helping our military community cheer on Team USA."
Service members and honorably discharged Veterans worldwide will be able to stream over 2,100 hours of events on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app, via authentication. Military members will be able to watch all the live coverage, top stories, interviews, highlights, recaps, select practices, and more.
"We're honored to continue our partnership with the Exchange in bringing the glory of the Games to veterans, service members, and military families around the world," said Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Carol Eggert, Senior Vice President of Military & Veteran Affairs at Comcast NBCUniversal. "We're grateful for our military and its service to our Nation and excited to offer multiple ways for them to view all the action and stories of inspiration from Team USA."
To watch the games on a personal computer or personal device, service members can use the NBC Sports app, or visit NBCOlympics.com, and choose the Exchange as their service provider.
More information can be found at Exchange's online community hub with additional details from the announcement:
Because of content rights restrictions, an active ShopMyExchange.com account is required. OCONUS viewers must also be physically located on-installation at a military location with internet service through an authorized internet service provider to gain access. An authorized provider is one which has partnered with the Exchange on the technical solutions allowing streaming viewership on U.S. military installations in OCONUS.
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games will be held in Beijing from February 2 to February 20 with the Opening Ceremony streaming live on NBC and Peacock. Many live TV streaming platforms will be streaming the games with YouTube TV being the first to announce that they will stream the games in 4K.
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Today, Cinedgim announced that its soccer-centric service Realmadrid TV has launched on Pluto TV. The channel will join others as part of Pluto TV's sports category, including NFL Channel, MLB, PGA Tour, and more.
Programming currently available on RealMadrid TV streaming channel:
Real Madrid's La Liga Games
Live Press Conferences
Live Training Sessions
Magazine Shows
Real Madrid News Programming
"Real Madrid has one of the most loyal fanbases worldwide, with more than 450 million fans across the globe. With Real Madrid's strong and continually growing fanbase in the U.S., Realmadrid TV now offers those fans an incredible opportunity to catch the latest matches, news, and revisit classic moments in the club's history," said Jennifer Soltesz, Vice President, Business Development & Strategy at Cinedigm. "Realmadrid TV on Pluto TV brings the world's most famous and successful soccer team to one of the most popular ad-supported streaming services, giving fans across the country a close look at the team they love."
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Check out Netflix's array of incoming content during the month of Love, including the documentaries The Tinder Swindler, and jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (provided Ye gets entrance into the editing lab for the final say), and more.
Plus, new series are on their way including Murderville, where celebrity guests have to improvise their scripts along the way, Season 2 of Steve Carell in Space Force, and Season 2 of Love is Blind so we can have a new version of Jessica to watch fall in love with someone behind a wall.
Business Proposal — NETFLIX SERIES
Juvenile Justice — NETFLIX SERIES
Love, Life & Everything in Between — NETFLIX SERIES
One Piece: Episode of Chopper: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura
One Piece: Episode of Alabasta
My Best Friend Anne Frank — NETFLIX FILM
Gabby's Dollhouse: Season 4 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Raising Dion: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
The Bourne Ultimatum
Caddyshack 2
Donnie Brasco
The Foreigner 300
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
The Negotiator
The Other Boleyn Girl
Patsy & Loretta
Dark Desire: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
MeatEater Season 10 Part 2 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
The Tinder Swindler — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Finding Ola — NETFLIX SERIES
Kid Cosmic: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Murderville — NETFLIX SERIES
Feb, 4
Looop Lapeta — NETFLIX FILM
Sweet Magnolias: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
Through My Window — NETFLIX FILM
Child of Kamiari Month — NETFLIX ANIME
Love is Blind Japan — NETFLIX SERIES
Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy? — NETFLIX COMEDY
Catching Killers: Season 2 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Disenchantment: Part 4 — NETFLIX SERIES
Ideias à Venda — NETFLIX SERIES
Only Jokes Allowed — NETFLIX COMEDY
The Privilege — NETFLIX FILM
Into the Wind — NETFLIX FILM
Until Life Do Us Part — NETFLIX SERIES
Anne+: The Film — NETFLIX FILM
Love Tactics — NETFLIX FILM
Bigbug — NETFLIX FILM
Inventing Anna — NETFLIX SERIES
Love and Leashes — NETFLIX FILM
Love Is Blind: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES (New episodes weekly)
Tall Girl 2 — NETFLIX FILM
Toy Boy: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
Forecasting Love and Weather — NETFLIX SERIES
Twenty Five Twenty One — NETFLIX SERIES
Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire — NETFLIX SERIES
Fishbowl Wives — NETFLIX SERIES
Love is Blind Japan — NETFLIX SERIES (New episodes weekly)
Ridley Jones: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY (New episodes weekly)
Secrets of Summer — NETFLIX FAMILY
Swap Shop: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
Erax — NETFLIX FILM
Fistful of Vengeance — NETFLIX FILM
Forgive Us Our Trespasses — NETFLIX FILM
Heart Shot — NETFLIX FILM
Mo Gilligan: There's Mo to Life — NETFLIX COMEDY
Young Wallander: Killer's Shadow — NETFLIX SERIES
The Cuphead Show! — NETFLIX FAMILY
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Rabbids Invasion Special: Mission to Mars — NETFLIX FILM
Space Force: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
Texas Chainsaw Massacre — NETFLIX FILM
Don't Kill Me — NETFLIX FILM
Cat Burglar — NETFLIX SERIES
RACE: Bubba Wallace — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Worst Roommate Ever — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
UFO — NETFLIX FILM
Karma's World Music Videos — NETFLIX FAMILY
Back to 15 — NETFLIX SERIES
Merlí. Sapere Aude — NETFLIX SERIES
Restless — NETFLIX FILM
Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming — NETFLIX FILM
Vikings: Valhalla — NETFLIX SERIES
My Wonderful Life — NETFLIX FILM
Two Sentence Horror Stories: Season 3
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The Professional Fighters League (PFL) and ESPN announced today that they've reached a new multi-year agreement, which will run through 2023 with an option to extend. The new deal will expand ESPN's coverage of the PFL to include the entire 2022 PFL Playoffs, and a majority of the regular season events on ESPN, ESPN2, and simulcast on ESPN+.
Matt Kenny, ESPN Vice President of Programming and Acquisitions, said: "As the home of combat sports, ESPN looks forward to continuing to deliver exciting, live PFL events and powerful storytelling to fans, across all platforms."
The new agreement will begin with the 2022 PFL Regular Season kickoff event on April 20. Not only will PFL fights air on ESPN's platforms but the network will give fight fans pre and post-fight coverage, and exclusive PFL content.
"After two successful years of providing fans with premium MMA content alongside ESPN, PFL is proud to extend and expand our agreement," said PFL CEO Peter Murray. "As MMA continues to evolve as a sport and rights property, our differentiated product and unique approach will help shape its path forward and in 2022 fans can expect more events, matchups between the world's best fighters and innovative content than ever before."
As the second-largest MMA company in the world, the PFL prides itself on being the fastest growing and most innovative sports league. Last year, the PFL and fuboTV announced that they are partnering up for a new PFL Challenger Series. Under the multi-year agreement, the PFL Challenger Series will stream exclusively on the Fubo Sports Network, and on fuboTV.
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Things are heating up with AT&Ts pending merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery. The $43-billion deal was supposed to close halfway through 2022, but now has been moved up to Q2 according to information shared on Wednesday's earnings call.
"We're encouraged with how the process for the WarnerMedia deal is progressing," said AT&T CEO John Stankey on a call to analysts.
A "definitive agreement" between AT&T and Discovery was announced in May 2021. "This agreement unites two entertainment leaders with complementary content strengths and positions the new company to be one of the leading global direct-to-consumer streaming platforms," Stankey said when that announcement was made.
The merger is pushing forward despite raising major concerns among Congress members that the two media companies joining forces could pose harm to consumers, employees, and more. On Wednesday's call, Stanley commented that the process of having the deal approved was going as expected and that the company is making "final preparations" to complete the deal now.
The massive merger would put brands such as HBO, CNN, Animal Planet and Food Network under a new publicly traded company called Warner Bros. Discovery. "We love the new company's name because it represents the combination of Warner Bros.' fabled hundred year legacy of creative, authentic storytelling and taking bold risks to bring the most amazing stories to life, with Discovery's global brand that has always stood brightly for integrity, innovation and inspiration.," Discovery CEO David Zaslav said of the new name.
WarnerMedia shareholders would own 71% and Discovery shareholders 29% of the new company.
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September 20, 2015 • By Jonathan Kirshner
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES was one of the most remarkable and influential figures of the 20th century. Yet beyond a relatively small number of cultists, despite making something of a comeback in the wake of the global financial crisis, Keynes, as Keynes, remains largely unknown and unappreciated: reduced to clichés, or, most commonly, invoked as an epithet.
This is an enormous loss, as it withholds appreciation of an astonishing life and a brilliant mind — and a monumental oeuvre, which, in both substance and disposition, has much to offer across a broad range of pressing contemporary challenges and crises. Most notably, as Robert Skidelsky writes, elites were unprepared for the economic catastrophes of the past decade, because "when the world economy collapsed in 2008–'09 the only thing most younger economists, policy-makers and businessmen knew about Keynes was that one did not need to know anything about him. He had vanished from their textbooks, briefings and indeed from their consciousness."
But we can benefit from — actually we need — a larger place for Keynes in our public discourse and policymaking. How can he be recovered? Two new books offer distinct pathways toward this goal. Universal Man, by the eminent historian Richard Davenport-Hines, presents an unconventional biography — examining pretty much everything about Keynes except for his economics, a laudable approach that, by stripping away the scholarship, reveals and engages the breath of an astonishing, consequential, and vital life so fully lived. The Essential Keynes, edited with an introduction and commentary by Keynes's celebrated biographer Robert Skidelsky, also takes the reader back to Keynes, but here, and with enormous success, brings the reader all the way back home, to the Master's own hand.
Universal Man ranges effortlessly across Keynes's overstuffed life. Davenport-Hines, in a loosely chronological account, identifies the "seven lives" of his subject — Altruist, Boy Prodigy, Official, Public Man, Lover, Connoisseur, and Envoy — an approach very much in the spirit of Leonard Woolf's characterization of Keynes: "A don, a civil servant, a speculator, a businessman, a journalist, a writer, a farmer, a picture dealer, a statesmen, a theatrical manager, a book collector, and half a dozen other things." And even these accounts seem to barely scratch the surface — to mention but a few of the "other things," Keynes was also the editor of Britain's leading academic economics journal from 1911 to 1945, the Bursar of King's College, and chairman and chief proprietor, from 1923, of the weekly magazine The Nation and Athenaeum (subsequently The New Statesman and Nation) among many other endeavors.
Any new biography of Keynes is under pressure to justify its publication, given Skidelsky's magisterial three-volume biography as well as the valuable Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography by Donald Moggridge, which, as Rupert-Hines notes, run to 1,758 and 990 pages respectively. (He might also have mentioned the 674 pages of Roy Harrod's The Life of John Maynard Keynes. Criticizing Harrod's circumscribed and self-censored book is a standard rite of passage among serious Keynes biographers, but The Life retains the distinct appeal of having been written by a contemporary.) Universal Man stakes its territory by shedding the economics and honing in on the personal, and clocks in at a highly readable 400 pages.
Universal Man, however, although not a bad choice for the more ambitious beach-goer, falls between two stools. For the uninitiated, it is too much of an odd duck to serve as a proper introduction; those familiar with Keynes will not find enough new here to reward the effort. "Boy Prodigy" does an especially fine job with family and the early years, and it is nice to be reminded that we are consorting with genius — the schoolboy Keynes won 10 prizes in his first year at Eton, and 18 in his second. And from there on to Cambridge, where Keynes would come of age, elected to the Apostles (the private intellectual society founded in 1820), whose members included Bertrand Russell, the philosopher G. E. Moore, and the older boys who brought him into the fold, Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf.
Other chapters (Official, Public Man, and Envoy) cover more well traveled ground. In the 1910s, Keynes languished briefly as a Civil Servant in the India Office, but after playing a pivotal role in containing the financial crisis associated with the outbreak of the Great War, he served in the Treasury, managing Britain's precarious books and its crucial if often touchy financial relationship with the United States. The principal Treasury representative to the Paris Peace conference in 1919, Keynes resigned in protest at the incomplete and short-sighted nature of the Versailles Treaty, and wrote the brilliant polemic The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which brought him international fame.
As Davenport-Hines reviews, in the '20s and '30s Keynes was at the center of things, participating in the great debates of the day (such as opposition to then Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill's decision to restore the gold standard in 1926 — Churchill took it well) while also producing his best known academic works: A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), A Treatise on Money (1930), and The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). And although it studiously avoids the tall weeds of theory, Universal Man nevertheless, as all Keynes biographers must, patiently disabuses readers of various "Keynesian" tropes; in fact the actual Keynes was very wary of inflation, held that "the ordinary budget should be balanced at all times," and insisted that "if serious unemployment does develop, deficit financing is absolutely certain to happen, and I should like to keep free to object hereafter to the more objectionable forms of it."
In the 1940s — that is, during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath — Keynes, ravaged by a serious heart disease that virtually incapacitated him from 1937 to 1939, essentially gave his life in the service of his country, acting as Britain's chief financial envoy to the United States. These efforts included the meetings that led to the (Keynes-inspired) International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the disposition of Lend-Lease aid (and dealing with its abrupt termination), and the negotiation of the post-war American Loan, which an on-his-last-legs Keynes defended in one of his most memorable speeches in the House of Lords. Of these last years, of transatlantic trips and interminable negotiating sessions, Davenport-Hines notes, "exhausted beyond measure, his indominatable will power and his wife's loving protection kept him alive." Keynes suffered a final heart attack in April 1946, in his 63rd year.
However well told, once again, the life of the wartime Keynes is familiar. Ultimately, Universal Man's most novel chapters are five and six, "Lover" and "Connoisseur." The latter, crucial for an appreciation of Keynes, is a bit of a "catch-all," and might have been called "Renaissance man," but that would have sat uneasily aside the book's title. Nevertheless, to understand Keynes is to recognize the emphasis he placed on "the good life" — the idea that money was but a means to an end, not an end in itself. (The road from Keynes leads here, thus Skidelsky's recent book, How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life.) First and foremost, this meant a commitment to the arts, which, for Keynes, started with his intimate, lifelong association with the Bloomsbury community of writers, painters, and, of course, talkers. (As one observer of the group recalled: "no subject of conversation has been taboo, no tradition accepted without examination, and no conclusion evaded.") This was the Keynes who appreciated the great cities of Europe, loved the English countryside, supported landmark preservation, amassed an impressive library of rare first-edition books, collected fine art (ultimately bequeathing 150 pieces to Kings College, including works by Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, and Picasso), served as a Trustee of the National Gallery and on the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, and founded the Cambridge Arts Theatre, which opened in 1936, featuring productions of A Doll's House and The Master Builder.
Awe-inspiring — but not the passages that readers of Universal Man will likely best remember. These will almost certainly come from "Lover," which is a mixed bag, and not quite as advertised. The discussion is admirably, bracingly, and at times entertainingly frank, but love is not the primary phenomena under scrutiny here — the chapter might have been better called "Sex machine" (one too-easily hears James Brown's voice providing an exuberant backbeat for the unfolding action). Keynes in his late 20s comes across as a gay, British, turn-of-the-century Warren Beatty. Our knowledge of this is enhanced by the fact that Keynes was an obsessive record keeper and tabulator — in middle age he would pour obsessively over statistics of prices and consumption at the concession stand of the Cambridge Arts Theatre. Some people catalog their stamp collections. Others … the sexually voracious young Keynes once showed "statistics of his sexual conquests […] to selected friends, some of whom gasped."
What of it? Davenport-Hines argues, convincingly and unabashedly, that "Keynes's sex life was one of the seven activities that made the universal man." Additionally, talking freely and plainly and unashamedly about sex is fittingly in accord with the Bloomsbury credo. And the issue of homosexuality is of more than prurient interest, as Universal Man details: it involved real danger — of blackmail, arrest, disgrace, prison, suicide — and informed interpersonal relationships (Lytton Strachey's jealousy loomed large). Finally, a little bit of love does peek through, as first the artist Duncan Grant and later Keynes's wife, the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, are properly situated, sequentially, as the two most important intimate relationships in his life. Of Lydia, whom Keynes met in 1922 and married in 1925, Davenport-Hines concludes "without her, his great academic work might not have been accomplished […] without her vigilant love, he must have died years before he did."
Yet "Lover" elicits mixed feelings. As highbrow gossip it is harmless, but dwelling on the (admittedly often very colorful) details risks providing fodder for those deeply ignorant people (and some deeply disingenuous people who surely know better) who would try to link the young Keynes's ravenous and at times rash non-traditional sexuality to an allegedly cavalier attitude about consequences of his economic proposals. It ought not be necessary to sift through this garbage, but there is enough of it around to pollute the public discourse. Thus, we might dutifully note that Keynes the promiscuous, risk-taking homosexual was actually more or less a rather conventional mainstream economist — it was only after settling down into traditional, monogamous heterosexuality did Keynes become increasingly iconoclastic and heretical. Indeed, for Skidelsky, the marriage to Lydia, "for whom his love and fascination never waned […] gave his life the emotional stability and regular routine for sustained intellectual effort." Davenport-Hines floats another theory, that Keynes "broke free from classical economics," only after the death of his mentor and great teacher, Alfred Marshall, in 1924. I would argue that it was the times themselves — the novel, stubborn, economic puzzles that characterized the difficult dozen years from 1925–1937 — coupled with Keynes's genius, that called forth a new and necessary and revolutionary economics.
Universal Man is not much concerned with those economics; but the question remains, even setting the technical work aside, does it get us to Keynes? It may well be that to reclaim Keynes, we have to go back to the source. To know Keynes, we must read Keynes.
This is where The Essential Keynes comes in. The task Skidelsky faced in assembling this volume was formidable — Keynes's Collected Writings clock in at 30 fat volumes, and beyond those are the extensive Keynes papers at the King's College Archives in Cambridge. Winnowing down to 550 pages could not have been easy. But it was worth the effort. Even faithful readers of his three-volume biography will be rewarded by this collection; Skidelsky is not offering a poor man's version of his earlier efforts. Essential Keynes reads as if he has revisited the papers with fresh eyes while drawing on the experience of 30-plus years on the Keynes beat. A short introduction offers a highly efficient biographical sketch and also touches on key themes of Keynes's economics and place in history, again helpfully separating Keynes's own policy preferences from their contemporary caricatures.
Skidelsky wisely organizes the material thematically as opposed to chronologically, beginning with sections on "The Philosopher" and "The Social Philosopher," followed by the two meatiest sections of the book, "The Economist" and "The Policy-Maker," and concluding with "The Essayist." Each section commences with an enlightening introduction, and, of particular value, clear and contextualizing commentaries on most of the individual pieces.
Opening with "The Philosopher" is an inspired choice, as Keynes was influenced by consistent and underlying philosophical touchstones throughout his life. The section begins with two previously unpublished pieces, both from 1904, "Ethics in Relation to Conduct," which reflected the influence of G. E. Moore and was read to the Apostles, and a short excerpt from Keynes's 84-page prize-winning undergraduate essay, "The Political Doctrines of Edmund Burke," — here, and not the for last time, the reader's only complaint is to wish that the helping could have been more generous. The Burke essay is especially valuable, Skidelsky explains, as it illustrates Keynes's lifelong emphasis on "the doctrine of prudence," which had "a profound effect" both on his theory of economic policy and of statesmanship. "Burke ever held, and held rightly," the young Keynes wrote, that "our power of prediction is so slight, and our knowledge of remote consequences so uncertain, that it is seldom wise to sacrifice a present benefit for a doubtful advantage in the future." This early piece (along with an excerpt from Keynes's early book A Treatise on Probability) hint at his future epiphany regarding the difference between risk (making a bet knowing the true odds) and uncertainty (making one's best guesses in an environment characterized by unknowables), that would inform The General Theory.
Rounding out this section, crucially, is "My Early Beliefs," the essay that a convalescing Keynes read before the Memoir Club (a small circle of Bloomsbury friends) in September 1938. In this remarkable reflection, the middle-aged Keynes reviews the philosophical beliefs that were embraced by his undergraduate cohort, "our mental history in the dozen years before the war," and, despite some offering criticism that comes from the wisdom of hard years ("we were not aware that civilization was a thin and precarious crust"), nevertheless, he concludes, the philosophy "remains nearer to the truth than any other that I know." In his earlier biography, Skidelsky called Beliefs "a key document for understanding his life's work," and, notably, Keynes requested that the paper, along with another memoir ("Dr. Melchior: A Defeated Enemy") find publication after his death (which they did, in the book Two Memoirs).
Skidelsky also covers a good bit of ground on the development of the "middle way" between laissez-faire capitalism and looming collectivism. Two major pieces, "Am I a Liberal?" (1925) and "The End of Laissez-Faire" (1926), show Keynes positioning himself, as a matter of practical politics, between the Conservative and Labour parties, and embarking on his final break with classical economics: "The world is not so governed from above that private and social interest always collide," he declared, suggesting the absence of an "invisible hand" of economic efficiency. But where does this lead? Increasingly over the years, the break with classical economics would become more and more explicit, as would the vexing challenge of articulating an alternative. Summarily dismissing laissez-faire capitalism in 1933, Keynes wrote: "It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous — and it doesn't deliver the goods. […] But when we wonder what to put in its place, we are extremely perplexed." Certainly Marxism, in either theory or practice, held no appeal. Unlike many interwar intellectuals, Keynes had a profound aversion to communism, long before Stalin's horrors became apparent. In "A Short View of Russia," Keynes's account of his visit to the country shortly after his marriage, he dismissed communism as "a religion," and "Red Russia […] detestable," in the thrall of "a creed which does not care how much it destroys the liberty and security of daily life, which uses deliberately the weapons of persecution, destruction, and international strife." Collectivist ideologies, on the march in the 1930s, offered no alternative path for Keynes, who was, in Harrod's apt description, "an individualist to the finger tips." Even in The General Theory Keynes never let go of his appreciation for much of Alfred Marshall's microeconomics: "The advantage to efficiency of the decentralization of decisions and of individual responsibility is even greater, perhaps, than the nineteenth century supposed." And so the search for a middle way, one that combined, as Davenport-Hines recounted, economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty, would be a path that Keynes was endlessly navigating.
Non-specialist readers will likely skim over the 200 pages devoted to Keynes's more theoretical economic writings, but Skidelsky is an able guide, working through the Treatise on Money, Keynes's most challenging book (actually two thick volumes), which is not an easy read, and flawed in parts. But it is also a book with much merit; Joseph Schumpeter, who had been hard at work on his own opus on the same topic, responded to the publication of The Treatise by abandoning his efforts, telling one student "all that was left [for him] to do was to destroy the manuscript." And for all its difficulty, The Treatise, which puzzles through the problem of balancing domestic and international macroeconomic autonomy, is alive with contemporary relevance.
Of enormous merit are the eight pages that Skidelsky devotes, in his own voice, to the trip from The Treatise to The General Theory — that is, to unpacking the Keynesian Revolution. What leaps from the page is that, in broad historical perspective, the most consequential divide was not between Keynes and his critics, but among those who would call themselves Keynesians: a battle that pitted "hydraulic" Keynesians against "fundamentalists." It was not much of a fight — postwar mainstream macroeconomics followed the Hydraulic path (which Joan Robinson labeled "bastard Keynesianism"). It was this version of Keynesianism that stumbled in the 1970s, and which, reconstituted in the 1990s as "New Keynesianism" (chasing to keep up with the ascendant, hyper-rationalist, anti-Keynesian, "New Classical Macroeconomics"), contributed to the intellectual and policy environment that caused the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–'08.
Skidelsky states plainly that "Keynes theoretical ambitions were […] larger than the hydraulic Keynesians recognize," but he strikes a judicious pose, offering sections of The General Theory privileged by each side and leaving it "to the reader to judge" how successful Keynes was in transcending a hydraulic perspective. Despite this nominal agnosticism, Skidelsky tips his hand, noting "after Keynes's death, the economics profession discarded his intuitions and kept those pieces of his theory which could be justified in terms of its own formalism." Fundamentalist Keynesians, in contrast, see uncertainty as the primary theme of The General Theory, and it is hard to come away from a reading of Chapter 12 and disagree. Moreover, Skidelsky follows (most appropriately) selections from the book with a long excerpt of Keynes's crucial (and very fundamentalist) 1937 Quarterly Journal of Economics paper, his only attempt to distill core insights of The General Theory in an academic journal, as well as some selected private correspondence stimulated by the book's reception, which again showcases a fundamentalist Keynes. Repeatedly, he stressed the consequences of "the extreme precariousness of the basis of knowledge," and emphasized how "orthodox theory assumes that we have a knowledge of the future of a kind quite different from what we actually possess." These arguments are part of a basic critique of an economics profession misguided, its approach built on the assumption of static and predictable behavioral relationships. But economics "deals with motives, expectations, psychological uncertainties. One must be on constant guard against treating the material as constant and homogenous," Keynes wrote to Harrod in 1938. The "pseudo-analogy with the physical sciences leads directly counter to the habit of mind which is most important for an economist proper to acquire." But this, of course, was the pseudo-analogy that the postwar economics profession wanted nothing more than to embrace.
Keynes the "policy-maker" ought to leave many present-day pundits, talking heads, and policy wonks contrite. Classics such as "Can Lloyd George do it?" "The End of the Gold Standard," "How to Avoid a Slump," and "Paying for the War," (which Skidelsky neatly describes as "an explicit application of The General Theory to an inflationary full employment economy"), demonstrate that on so many of "today's issues," Keynes got there first — exposing "the deliberate intensification of unemployment" via overly restrictive monetary policy; examining the catastrophic Global Financial Crisis (of 1931), and, most remarkably, elucidating problems of macroeconomic adjustment that could have been written about contemporary Europe. Arrangements like the Gold Standard (and the European Monetary Union) create a process of adjustment that "is compulsory for the debtor and voluntary for the creditor" and thus "throw the burden of adjustment" on "the weaker and […] the smaller," that is, "on the countries least able to support it, making the poor poorer." This is not only unjust and inefficient; it also threatens to be "disruptive of the social order."
Skidelsky concludes The Essential Keynes with "The Essayist," selections from Keynes's voluminous biographical writings. "Dr. Melchior," mentioned above, describes negotiations in Treves, Germany, over the conditions by which the allied powers would lift their food blockade. Originally read at two meetings of the Memoir Club in 1920 and 1921, it contains some of Keynes' finest prose (Virginia Woolf sang its praises in an effusive note); Skidelsky omits my favorite passage:
We watched them as sightseers. They walked stiffly and uneasily, seeming to lift their feet like men in a photograph or a movie. The Marshal could be seen through the window of his railway carriage, tugging a ragged moustache and laying down his pipe.
A moment later we were called back to our own saloon, since the German financiers were announced. The railway carriage was small, and both we and they were numerous. How were we to behave? Ought we to shake hands? We crushed together at one end of the carriage with a small bridge-table between us and the enemy. They pressed into the carriage, bowing stiffly. We bowed stiffly also, for some of us had never bowed before. We nervously made a movement as though to shake hands and then didn't. I asked them, in a voice intended to be agreeable, if they all spoke English.
Also featured are Keynes's essays on Thomas Malthus and Isaac Newton, and, of course, his famous memorial of Marshall. Skidelsky can only offer a sliver of what was a 70-page masterpiece, though here my favorite line is included, a lament of Marshall's perfectionist streak: "he was too little willing to cast his half-baked bread on the waters, to trust in the efficacy of the cooperation of many minds, and to let the big world draw from him what sustenance it could." The Marshall memorial also includes Keynes's description of what a "master-economist" must be: "a mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher […] he must study the present in light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard." Alas, this is another battle that has been lost. Most contemporary economics training stops abruptly at mathematician, to our collective impoverishment.
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The little stock market that could
By Bernd Struben
Stars aligning for higher gold prices
Another US government shutdown?
Job growth hype is 'sensational'
Important reminder
Well, Jerome Powell went and pulled the trigger.
No surprises there.
At 2pm New York time, the new Fed Chairman officially raised the US cash rate by 0.25%. That brings the US target rate to 1.5–1.75%.
It also marks the first time since 2000 that the US rate exceeds the RBA's cash rate, currently at 1.5%. Powell indicated two more rate rises were on the cards this year. That should soothe some nerves, as rumours had been circulating about four possible rises this year.
RBA Governor Philip Lowe, on the other hand, is likely to keep rates in Australia at record lows for most, if not all, of 2018. That could have some serious implications for international money flows into Australia. But that's a story for another day.
Though widely expected, US and European markets broadly fell on the news. Both the Dow and S&P 500 shed 0.18%. That leaves the Dow down 7.10% since hitting a record high on 26 January.
New Zealand's NZX 50 Index, on the other hand, closed for a new record high just yesterday.
I haven't written much about New Zealand's stock market in Port Phillip Insider. My apologies, as that may well be to your detriment.
While so much focus has been on US markets hitting record after record, the NZX 50 — composed of 50 of the largest financial products on the NZX Main Board — has been quietly booming.
Just have a look at the one-year chart below:
Source: Google Finance
After gaining 1.44% yesterday, the NZX 50 is up 22.01% since 22 March last year.
By comparison the Dow is up 19.71% year-on-year. While the ASX 200 has struggled to deliver a gain of 4.43%.
One way to get exposure to the NZX 50 is through the NZ Top 50 Fund. It aims to match the performance of the NZX 50. Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future performance. But if you're looking for some more diversity beyond Aussie stocks, this is one to consider.
Now to the markets.
Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 44.96 points, or 0.18%.
The S&P 500 lost 5.01 points, or 0.18%.
In Europe, the Euro Stoxx 50 index finished down 11.04 points, or 0.32%. Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 fell 0.32%, and Germany's DAX gained 1.82 points, or 0.01%.
In Asian markets, Japan's Nikkei 225 up 102.22 points, or 0.48%. China's CSI 300 is down 1.06%%.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 is down 15.17 points, or 0.25%.
On the commodities markets, West Texas Intermediate crude oil is US$65.43 per barrel. Brent crude is US$69.47 per barrel.
Gold is trading for US$1,331.76 (AU$1,713.32) per troy ounce. Silver is US$16.54 (AU$21.28) per troy ounce.
One bitcoin is worth US$8,900.73.
The Aussie dollar is worth 77.73 US cents.
Yesterday I mentioned Greg Canavan's new gold report, 'The Great Bullion Breakout'. I also touched on his latest recommendation, intended to make the most out of the sharply rising gold price he's forecasting. And by 'make the most', we're talking about a potential 100% gain by October for early investors.
If you haven't followed up on that yet, you can do so here.
As Port Phillip Publishing's head of research, Greg doesn't make these kinds of forecasts lightly. But he makes a very strong case for why gold is about to embark on the kind of bull run it's only enjoyed twice before in history.
One of the things that should send gold to new heights is sustained weakness in the US dollar. Remember, a weak US dollar almost always correlates to high gold prices.
And following the Fed's meeting the US dollar extended its losses, as you can see in the graph below:
It might seem counterintuitive that the dollar fell following a 0.25% interest rate rise. But that's simply because currency markets had already priced in the rise. And many punters had expected Powell to indicate four possible rate rises for the year. When that didn't happen, the US dollar sold off.
The US economy and dollar face other headwinds as well. Among those is the Fed's engagement in quantitative tightening (QT). That comes after a decade of quantitative easing (QE).
By selling the bonds it's been buying, the Fed plans to cut over US$1 trillion from its balance sheet over the next two years. This could tip the US into recession. Not to mention putting an end to the lengthy run up in US stocks.
Which, most likely, would be good for gold.
In case you missed it, the US government is almost out of money…again.
If a deal isn't reached by midnight this Friday (US time) some government agencies will be shut…again.
The price tag of that deal?
US$1.3 trillion. And that's just through to September.
From the RAW newswire:
'Republican and Democratic leaders in the US Congress have unveiled a $US1.3 ($A1.8) trillion bill to fund the government through September, which includes an additional $US80 billion in national defence spending but fails to fund some of President Donald Trump's immigration initiatives.
'If passed by the House of Representatives and Senate by a Friday midnight (local time) deadline, it would avert the shutdown of many federal agencies and programs beginning this weekend, when existing funds expire…
'The Republican-controlled Congress will need Democratic support to pass a bill that many Republican conservatives are likely to balk at because of its cost.'
A few things to note here.
First, if passed, this bill will see the US budget deficit soar to ever greater heights.
Second, a deal may not be reached by Friday, resulting in a partial US government shutdown. While that will surely only be temporary, it will only add to the building mood of uncertainty.
Third, the US$1.3 trillion will only fund the government through to September. That's when yet another shutdown will arise. Any confidence investors may get when a deal is reached on the current funding bill will be fleeting.
And as investors become increasingly uncertain about the future, gold, the classic haven asset, is likely to see a big spike in demand.
If Greg's analysis proves what he expects, that spike in demand should see gold rocket by as much as 50% over the next two years.
But well before then, he expects one specific stock to ride the rising gold price to early gains of 100%. And the longer-term gains could be 10 times that. You can get all the details here.
Turning back to Australia…
Did you read the latest 'sensational' news on the Aussie jobs front? The number of people officially employed has now grown for 17 straight months. That's a record run.
From the AAP:
'Thursday's figures showed 17,500 people joined the workforce in February…
'"We have now seen for the first time ever, 17 months of continuous employment growth. That is sensational news for Australians," Senator Cash told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
'She says such strength doesn't happen by accident.'
Sounds impressive, right? Well, don't get too excited.
This kind of strength indeed does not come by accident. And, in fact, the jobless rate nudged up to hit 5.6%. Part of that is due to more people actively seeking work but failing to find it, so they now count as unemployed.
But a big driver is Australia's rapid population growth. Growth that far outstrips the number of new jobs created.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia's population increased by 388,100 people from 30 June 2016 through 30 June 2017. That's an average of 32,341 more people every month.
And the last time I checked 32,341 is a good bit higher than 17,000.
No matter though. So long as the government can claim it's adding jobs. And that GDP keeps ticking up to continue Australia's record long recession free run. No matter that on a per capita bases we're sliding backwards.
Truly sensational.
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And finally, here's this from The Australian Tribune:
'Greens Backflip to Join Labor in Shorten's Tax Grab'
'Bill Shorten's plan to change the way dividends are taxed for retirees and others who pay no income tax has drawn widespread criticism from the Coalition and seniors groups across Australia.
'And, until recently, the Greens added their voice against the move. One many see as an unfair tax grab that will hurt vulnerable retirees just as much as skim some extra cash back from wealthy shareholders.
'But now the Greens…'
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Here's what we know about the allegations surrounding Ben McLemore's AAU coach Darius Cobb: he accepted $10,000 and a couple of trips to LA from a runner named Rodney Blackstock to try and persuade McLemore in a specific direction when deciding on his agent and his financial advisor. We also know that a cousin of McLemore, named Richard Boyd, was a long for the ride on those trips to LA. Cobb also alleges that Blackstock paid for a birthday party at a bowling alley for McLemore back in February and says the he helped out the family paying their bills from time-to-time.
That much we can pretty much state as fact if we assume that what was written in Eric Prisbell's story from USA Today on Saturday night.
What we don't know, however, far outweighs what we do know. How much did Kansas or Bill Self know about this deal? How much did McLemore, or his mother Sonya Reid, know about Cobb's association with Blackstock? Did that money ever make it into McLemore's hands, or was this simply a coach — who admitted to being an aspiring agent and who has spent two years in prison — trying to use his association with the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft to better himself?
Because until there is proof that Cobb was working at the behest of McLemore and his family, he's just another hanger-on looking to cash in on a payday for having a potentially-exploitable relationship with a soon-to-be profitable athlete.
That kind of deal happens all the time, and it makes me wonder about Cobb's motivation here. Why is he talking to USA Today? What happened that made him go public with this? Without Cobb talking on the record and working with Prisbell in exposing this story, there wouldn't be all that much to it. What happened that made him decide to come forward? Was he cut out of the deal and this is his way of getting back at the player and the family? Or was this a calculated move, a premeditated effort for the people in the McLemore camp to preemptively strike down a story that they had heard was in the pipeline?
If Cobb was the conduit on a cash pipeline from Blackstock to the McLemore's, it looks a lot better for Ben and the Kansas program if it's some renegade AAU coach trying to get his while he still is able to leech off of his former player.
Because if that's the case, than the NCAA won't have much of a case to speak of.
It would be hard to penalize Kansas for using an ineligible player when neither the school nor the player was aware that when Cobb began peddling his influence, McLemore technically became in eligible. And McLemore is much more marketable when he's not the reason that Kansas had a full-season of games wiped out of the NCAA's history books.
That may not be true, not when Blackstock is paying for birthday parties and the money that he is giving Cobb is eventually paying for McLemore's bills.
But that's also not the most important argument here. Does it really matter? None of this influenced McLemore's decision to enroll at Kansas. And none of it played a roll in his decision to head to the NBA; he was all-but out the door since the first time he went for 25 points in a game.
The only effect that the $10,000 that found itself in Cobb's back account will have on the Jayhawk program is that, by retroactively making McLemore ineligible, it could become the only thing to keep Kansas from winning at least a share of the Big 12 regular season title in almost a decade.


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State Route 339 (SR 339) is a  state highway in the U.S. state of Washington. It is designated on a former state-run ferry route that connected Vashon Island's Vashon Heights ferry terminal to downtown Seattle's Pier 50, via a passenger-only ferry, the MV Skagit. The ferry was financed by the King County Ferry District (KCFD) and tolls collected at Pier 50. Despite being part of the KCFD, the ferry was operated by Washington State Ferries (WSF). SR 339 was one of only four ferry routes providing access to and from Vashon Island, and had the lowest annual average ridership of the four routes. The state of Washington took over the operation of the ferry route in 1951, and designated it SR 339 in 1994. The ferry was discontinued in 2006 and was replaced by a King County Water Taxi route.

Route description

The entire route of SR 339 was in Puget Sound and was served by the MV Skagit. The passenger-only ferry started out from the Vashon Heights ferry terminal on Vashon Island and headed in a northerly direction, passing Blake Island State Park on the west. It briefly sailed into Kitsap County before the route turned east and passed the Alki Point Light and Alki Point before entering Elliott Bay, and docking at WSF's Pier 50, just south of Colman Dock, where the rest of the WSF operated ferries dock in Seattle.

Traveling at a top speed of , the MV Skagit made the crossing in about 35 minutes. There were three crossings each direction Monday–Friday, and no service on Saturday or Sunday.

Vashon Island is only connected to the rest of the region via three different WSF ferries departing from the Vashon dock, the other route departing from the Tahlequah dock on the south end of the island. SR 339 was the only passenger-only ferry that served the island; the other three ferries are auto ferries.

History

Ferries have provided transportation to and from Vashon Island since the days of the Seattle Mosquito Fleet, but the state government took over the operation of the Vashon Island ferry on June 1, 1951. The MV Skagit was built in 1989, and the ferry began service on the Seattle–Vashon Island route on April 23, 1990. The route was designated as a state highway, along with the rest of the state ferry system, in 1994. In 2003 the average daily ridership was 827 passengers per day, based on a five-day week, compared to 1,015 passengers on average when the route operated on a six-day schedule in 1999. This number has decreased in 2004, with an average of 529 passengers per day traveling on the ferry. The passenger-only service between Vashion Island and Seattle ended in 2006. WSF operated and maintained the MV Skagit, but by July 2009 the KCFD was  to assume all responsibilities of the operation. The route no longer received state funding, and King County was to be responsible for all costs of the route to be funded by property taxes. The MV Skagit was sold in 2011 to a ferry operator in Tanzania, where it connected Zanzibar to the mainland until it sank on July 18, 2012.

The Seattle–Vashon Island run was transferred to the King County Ferry District in 2007, now operated as a King County Water Taxi route.

Tolls

Tolls were collected on trips departing Pier 50; return trips to Seattle were not charged. The adult toll was $8.70, with bicycles assessed an additional $1.00 toll. Wave2Go is a prepaid toll system which allowed commuters to purchase either 10 ride cards or monthly passes.

Major intersections
The entire route was located in Puget Sound, King County.

References

External links

King County Water Taxi Vashon Route

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Transportation in King County, Washington
Ferry routes in western Washington (state)


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Nashville Recording artist 'Secret Nation' just released their sophmore record entitled, 'Pt.2'. Simon co-wrote the second track with lead singer Spencer Combs at The Sweatshop. Be sure to check it out on Itunes.


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Watertown's city manager wants to reinstate four fire captains who were demoted three years ago.
City manager Rick Finn is proposing that the former captains be reinstated as of April 1.
They were among eight captains who were demoted for the city's 2016-2017 budget as a way to save money.
Four of the eight have already been promoted to their old ranks because of retirements over the past six months.
A resolution to reinstate the remaining four is on the agenda for Monday night's city council meeting.
Finn says in a memo accompanying the resolution he's been reviewing the fire department's command structure over the past few months.
He also says he's been reading reports from several studies of the fire department over the past 10 years.
Finn says he plans to make "a series of recommendations aimed at making significant improvements in our Fire Department."
The promotions would cost the city over $13,000 for the last three months of the city's current fiscal year.
The city and the firefighters' union have been in a long-running dispute since the captains were demoted.
Last summer, an arbitrator sided with the union, saying that the city owed $75,000 of back pay to firefighters who'd been temporarily promoted to captains while out on calls.
The union and the city were back in court recently. The city wanted the court to overrule the arbitrator.
The city's firefighters have been without a contract since 2014.


Subah Infosolutions, a leading IT and telecommunications solution provider in Ghana, has announced that it has been appointed to tackle SimBox fraud and improve revenue assurance in Sierra Leone.
Some reports, quoting mobile operators and governments, had claimed that the country was losing tens of millions of dollars every year to fraudsters who had illegally terminated international calls as local calls.
According to the coutry's industry regulator, National Telecoms Commission, NATCOM, the company would be monitoring international voice and data traffic between Sierra Leone and overseas destinations using its SIM Box fraud and traffic monitoring systems.
They said they had carried out a thorough evaluation of bids submitted by twelve companies, eleven of them were international.
Subah said they had already deployed successful systems in their home country of Ghana and in Guinea, Conakry where it is estimated that an additional USD$1.5 million of voice traffic was now being billed every month by operators.
"This, in turn, is producing an extra USD$30,000 a month in tax revenues for the government of Guinea," they said.


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Oscillators are a type of circuit found in many types of electronic equipment, including clocks, radios and computers.
An electronic oscillator is a circuit that produces a repetitive electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave. Oscillators are important in many types of electronic equipment, including clocks, radios and computers. There are two main types: the harmonic oscillator and the relaxation oscillator. This tutorial illustrates a type of relaxation oscillator called an LC oscillator or tank oscillator, and involves an inductor and a capacitor.
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Capacitor by moving the Switch Position slider to the "Battery" position; the Knife Switch closes to create a circuit between the battery and capacitor. Electrons (depicted as yellow particles) flow from the negative terminal of the battery to the capacitor (electrons flow opposite conventional current). The electrons stop when the capacitor has reached its capacitance for storing electricity. For every electron absorbed by the negative plate, a positive charge (depicted by red particles) appears on the opposite plate. Between the plates, which are divided by an insulating dielectric, an electrostatic field is maintained.
Next, move the switch position slider to the "Inductor" position. This creates a new circuit connecting the newly charged capacitor to the Inductor, a solenoid coil. The capacitor discharges electrons, which pass through the inductor as they rush to the opposite plate of the capacitor. As the electric current passes through the inductor, it produces a magnetic field (represented by blue lines) due to electromagnetic induction. (As this magnetic field grows, it retards somewhat the flow of electrons through the inductor due to Lenz's Law – an effect not seen here but illustrated in our tutorial on EMF in Inductors). This field swells then subsides as the electrons stream through the inductor on their way to the oppositely charged plate of the capacitor, turning what had been the positive side of the capacitor into the negative side.
The path then reverses, as electrons are attracted from the newly charged negative plate of the capacitor to the positive plate, passing through the inductor on their way. This process goes through a few rounds, with the current subsiding gradually due to resistance in the circuit.
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Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies at 74
Cain had been ill with COVID-19 for several weeks.
In this May 31, 2014 file photo, Herman Cain addresses the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, La. Cain has died after battling the coronavirus. A post on Cain's Twitter account on Thursday, July 30, 2020 announced the death. [ BILL HABER | AP ]
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ATLANTA — Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has died after battling the coronavirus. He was 74.
A post on Cain's Twitter account on Thursday announced the death. Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks. It's not clear when or where he was infected, but he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June.
You're never ready for the kind of news we are grappling with this morning. But we have no choice but to seek and find God's strength and comfort to deal... #HermanCain https://t.co/BtOgoLVqKz
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 30, 2020
The former pizza company executive has been an outspoken backer of the president and was named by the campaign as a co-chair of Black Voices for Trump.
"We knew when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight," read an article posted on the Twitter account. "He had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. We all prayed that the initial meds they gave him would get his breathing back to normal, but it became clear pretty quickly that he was in for a battle."
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