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by Higgenbotham
Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:51 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

Higgenbotham wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:53 pm
Other Store Expenses. Other store expenses increased by $57.3 million, to $227.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to $170.1 million in 2021, due to increases of $41.4 million and $15.2 million in the Acima and Rent-A-Center Business segments, respectively, primarily attributable to higher customer stolen merchandise loss rates, as discussed further in the section “Segment Performance” below.
Operating Profit. Operating profit decreased by $59.0 million, to $11.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to $70.0 million in 2021, primarily due to the increases in other store expenses...
Merchandise Losses. Merchandise losses consist of the following:

Three Months Ended
March 31 2022 2021 (in thousands)
Customer stolen merchandise(1)
$ 99,742 $ 56,588

(1)Increase in customer stolen merchandise in 2022 is primarily due to the increase in customer stolen merchandise loss rates for the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to the corresponding period in 2021, as described in the Results of Operations section above. In addition, the increase is partly attributable to the timing of the acquisition of Acima Holdings on February 17, 2021, resulting in a partial period of losses for the first quarter of 2021.
http://content-archive.fast-edgar.com/2 ... 220331.htm

First Quarter Segment Highlights

Acima Segment: Skip/stolen losses were 12.6% of revenue in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 8.6% in the prior year period on a pro-forma basis.

Rent-A-Center Business Segment: Skip/stolen losses were 3.9% of revenue in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 2.7% in the prior year period.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/rent-center-i ... 00425.html


I think Wall Street will whistle past the graveyard on that or similar.

Target: 'Organized retail crime' has driven $400 million in extra profit loss this year

Brian Sozzi·Anchor, Editor-at-Large

Wed, November 16, 2022 at 5:31 AM·3 min read


Target stores are getting looted, and it's taking a huge bite out of profits.

The discount retailer told reporters on a call to discuss its third quarter earnings results that inventory shrinkage — or the disappearance of merchandise — has reduced its gross profit margin by $400 million so far in 2022 compared to 2021.

"At Target, year-to-date, incremental shortage has already reduced our gross margin by more than $400 million vs. last year," Target CFO Michael Fiddelke said on the earnings call, "and we expect it will reduce our gross margin by more than $600 million for the full year."

Fiddelke detailed how there are "a handful of things that can drive shrink in our business and theft is certainly a key driver. We know we're not alone across retail in seeing a trend that I think has gotten increasingly worse over the last 12 to 18 months. So we're taking the right actions in our stores to help curb that trend where we can, but that becomes an increasing headwind on our business and we know the business of others."

A Target spokesperson told Yahoo Finance via email after the call the shrinkage was mostly specifically attributed to "organized retail crime."
https://news.yahoo.com/target-organized ... 06396.html
by Higgenbotham
Sun Aug 21, 2022 4:16 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

aeden wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:52 pm http://www.carrollquigley.net/
As you noted correctly the clerks had no interest in chage.

In addition Antony Cyril Sutton told us the intent and what they truly are.

Speaking as taxpayer the Agency issue proves the intent they worship evil.

I'd never heard of Sutton even though I've been sounding a lot like him:
Sutton concluded that it was all part of the economic power elites' “long-range program of nurturing collectivism” and fostering “corporate socialism” in order to ensure “monopoly acquisition of wealth” because it “would fade away if it were exposed to the activity of a free market.”

In his view, the only solution to prevent such abuse in the future was that “a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from government, declares it will look after its own welfare and interests” or, specifically, if “a majority finds the moral courage and the internal fortitude to reject the something-for-nothing con game and replace it by voluntary associations, voluntary communes, or local rule and decentralized societies.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_C._Sutton

In my view, local rule by elders is the only way to prevent a civilization from turning into a con.
Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2013 9:34 pm The reason civilizations consisting of towns with immobile populations of 2,000 or fewer people work is everyone knows who the con artists are. And they are marginalized, or killed, or nobody lets their daughters marry them. Get a mobile population any larger than somewhere around 2,000 in an area, then deceit begins to spread out of control. Deceit is the core reason a civilization collapses. Nothing can save a civilization when deceit runs out of control.
Speaking of which,

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-great-reh ... effective/

I've said something like this before - in a properly run civilization with elder control at the local level, Anthony Fauci would be a bag boy in the local grocery store and no more than that.
by Higgenbotham
Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:53 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

Other Store Expenses. Other store expenses increased by $57.3 million, to $227.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to $170.1 million in 2021, due to increases of $41.4 million and $15.2 million in the Acima and Rent-A-Center Business segments, respectively, primarily attributable to higher customer stolen merchandise loss rates, as discussed further in the section “Segment Performance” below.
Operating Profit. Operating profit decreased by $59.0 million, to $11.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to $70.0 million in 2021, primarily due to the increases in other store expenses...
Merchandise Losses. Merchandise losses consist of the following:

Three Months Ended
March 31 2022 2021 (in thousands)
Customer stolen merchandise(1)
$ 99,742 $ 56,588

(1)Increase in customer stolen merchandise in 2022 is primarily due to the increase in customer stolen merchandise loss rates for the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to the corresponding period in 2021, as described in the Results of Operations section above. In addition, the increase is partly attributable to the timing of the acquisition of Acima Holdings on February 17, 2021, resulting in a partial period of losses for the first quarter of 2021.
http://content-archive.fast-edgar.com/2 ... 220331.htm

First Quarter Segment Highlights

Acima Segment: Skip/stolen losses were 12.6% of revenue in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 8.6% in the prior year period on a pro-forma basis.

Rent-A-Center Business Segment: Skip/stolen losses were 3.9% of revenue in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 2.7% in the prior year period.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/rent-center-i ... 00425.html


I think Wall Street will whistle past the graveyard on that or similar.
by aeden
Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:03 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases ... nt/h41.htm
Dollar value of foreign currency held under these agreements valued at the exchange rate to be used when the foreign currency is returned
to the foreign central bank. This exchange rate equals the market exchange rate used when the foreign currency was acquired from the
foreign central bank.

That would be a suicide run just like holding Cariboo digits as it's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes,
it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses plan. Right now Says law is in play as you wish to short Keynes who the Statist actually ignored
as needed cartels now matter as Hayek warning was ignored is in play. We are using calls on essential and if this is bottom carving we will see in
September knowing what hooker will be set on fire. The chorus of the frogs is the liberals screams as Harpys to interrupted tissue sales
in a zone. Amos was right about sick painted cows. Captains drunk staring at cold Oatmeal in a supply issue acting like the e-cons had a plan.
Priceless body farm swamp surrounded by the Red Queen in needed growth and maintenance Investments.
IN the real World systems allocate energy between growth and maintenance and repair.
You had been warned nudge, push, shove, shoot was a fact with these sociopaths. Some one said no.
Now five to seven hundred percent increases in stupid as imbalances are mandated. Priceless.

Last time we went through this shit storm a P/E of 6 survived and the political cartels decided.
Sheep, Muppets, Penguins, and barking Seals as they are butchered for the betters cult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Ccooiz1jI <======== data points observation and probable timelines.

Pro tip are the smart ones who just survived the red queen and thank your lucky stars they planned ahead and ate some costs.
Companies have that have a sense of the cost to acquire reserves, either through exploration or acquisition,
which is then deemed to be maintenance capital spending.

The point is still the same as the other retards have had since 1973 to get a plan other than lie cheat and steal with
another Captain Oatmeal at the helm looting.

Another Food Processing Plant Shutters Operations, Adding To Long List Of Closures"
Another 6-sigma event.

Energy and mining stocks are the best-performing groups in the rising Stoxx Europe 600 index amid commodity gains. Shell shares rise as much as 3.8%, TotalEnergies +2.7%, BP +3.4%, Rio Tinto +4.6%, Glencore +3.9% t

During the exhaustion stage of stress, the body begins to become overwhelmed by the chronic effects of stress on the body.
By this point, the body has attempted to recover using its compensatory mechanisms and has failed.
Its energy stores are depleted, and the exhaustion stage has caused the body to feel some distressing symptoms.

Your new serf leader will cackle as you eat insects.
https://media.patriots.win/post/iDgTJ5bU.png

Truman was right.

EIA.gov. that yes they utilized you will find out that fossil fuel will still represent more than 70% of US energy by 2050
The stupid ones are the lefties that don’t realize this is mass murder, and the authors of this green bullshit know it.

The Bundeswehr study may not have immediate political consequences, either, but it shows that the German government fears shortages could quickly arise. That was 2010 for the actual younger souls. For some here we have watched this even before 1973.
The feedback will be sociopaths who went from red diaper's to red depends thinking they doing just that.
The fact of the matters are just that. Into the wheel chairs they go arrogated and looting,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY7RIn4byK0
by aeden
Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:09 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by China's sovereign wealth fund is taking over the American publisher of Forbes magazine in a deal valued at US$630 million. Magnum Opus Acquisition, based in Hong Kong, will merge with Forbes Global Media Holdings, according to a statement overnight. Aug 26, 2021

Contributor to Forbes, told Tucker Carlson on Monday that he was terminated from the magazine over his coverage of NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Andrzejewski, who recently made headlines with his investigative reporting that Fauci was the highest paid employee in the entire US Federal government, described how he was targeted for being critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci and exposing his yearly earnings.

"The National Institutes of Health’s six top executives wrote an e-mail to myself and Randall Lane, the top content officer at Forbes. It was couched as a corrections e-mail, but there were no substantial corrections and they quibbled about small things in my column. But that was the excuse Forbes used to cancel it," Andrzejewski said.

There are two types of people in the world:

1) Those that know Fauci is a lying psychopath.
2) Morons
by aeden
Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:52 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

The Neo-Fascist DemonRats have been amazingly successful in delaying so many things since 2016 that their pattern of behavior is clear. This lawsuit will fail but then get appealed and by the time it gets to SCOTUS the 2022 elections will be happening and the rigged election will turn the Arizona legislature blue. Game over. Beamed in ballet flips anyways. The kids cracked those machines in mere minutes open source anyways. Since back orifice cracks its been over.

The Cult of the Dead Cow wrote Back Orifice in 1998.
Wrong.

L8ter
Released at DFRWS 2005
Network capture log: dfrws2005-network-capture.tcp
Kernel file: ntoskrnl.exe
Driver file: tcpip.sys
Acquisition audit logs:
dfrws2005-body-file.fls.md5
dfrws2005-network-capture.tcp.md5
dfrws2005-physical-memory1.dmp.md5
dfrws2005-physical-memory1-audit.log
dfrws2005-physical-memory2.dmp.md5
dfrws2005-physical-memory2-audit.log

Intrusion/intellectual property theft scenario logs.

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Systems such as Bro www.bro-ids.org got configured to store all traffic and then examine.
The Italian sandbox was just another rendition in a toolbox you called swing states. SCOTUS could care less on the dole.
Red team has made no effort to question suitcase girl in CCTV from what we seen also.

Zeek sits on a “sensor,” a hardware, software, virtual, or cloud platform that quietly and unobtrusively observes network traffic.

https://www.capterra.com/artificial-int ... -software/
https://dirtywarez.org/cat/forum
Spaghetti code scrapes.

Meanwhile DaaS has seen a relatively slow growth as most employees and DaaS vendors do not possess enough knowledge of navigating the different types of datasets. Another reason for this slow growth could be the hiring of data scientists who are relatively young in the field and looked only at certain sets of information, whereas experienced professionals have a better understanding of insights that can be impactful by comparing and contrasting data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le71yVPh4uk My fav.
by aeden
Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:12 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fal ... big-losses

https://dzone.com/articles/3-ai-fails-a ... y-happened

Designed to fail.

While neural networks are capable of back propagation to adjust their ability to produce the desired result, they are bound to do so with the data and parameters they are trained with.

A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on the top. Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water. After a while, every time a monkey went up the ladder, the others beat up the one on the ladder.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... ts-fiction
Originated with the research of G.R. Stephenson. (Stephenson, G. R. (1967). Cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys. In: Starek, D., Schneider, R., and Kuhn, H. J. (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, pp. 279-288.
by aeden
Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:01 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

They don't need a wall.
The Chicago Fed supports a statewide property tax because the resulting decrease in property values means property owners can't escape
thus inmates of Illinois.
We ran the numbers on Illegals.

They are stuck at step two: culture, strategy, and structure.
Millions know they are bat shit crazy.
They hated Trump that much.

https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inli ... k=JxszUXWB

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

scrape
Impacted stocks

ChargePoint Holdings Inc. (CHPT), which calls itself the world's largest network of EV charging stations in North America and Europe, was up 17% Wednesday. ChargePoint went public through reverse mergers with a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in March. It is up 179% over the past year, though down 32% in the year to date.

EVgo was also drawing fresh attention; it plans to go public in the second quarter through a $2.6 billion SPAC and owns and operates more than 800 charging locations in 67 major markets across 34 states.

Beyond ChargePoint and EVgo, companies including Beam GlobalBEEM.

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Basket diving...
People who still naively believe that there are traces of rationality and efficiency in a market that is broken beyond any salvage value and short the worst names out there, may be one of the few "strategies" that work.
light switch and go from there since if it does not come when flipped you have a bigger problem. Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:05 pm

viewtopic.php?p=55751#p55751
Trapped and slowly suffocating in safe space and yes we tried to help you.
This is not schadenfreude we are only obligated to The Book and Letter.
You Left us. Not the other way around.
Matthew 10:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaJjdrTW7C0
by aeden
Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:00 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

I will carry unleveraged shorts up to three percent and ignore puts for now.
I understand why you did H. So in plain fact book four is open since 50 day was breeched
on dxy is why as we noted and dated in the early Feb sweeps. No date needed for us here.
We may decide on long date puts but for us it is not warranted as it is for agile basis maps
for liquidity moves if/then moves into April it will be apparent. This includes undue skepticism
and actual risk assessment maps warranted. We listed eco crypto system developments and no we do not
hold it over night either so it keeps them throttled to net working capital facts in our view alone.
Special purpose acquisition company are toxic as I seen real time when legacy breakouts into telco
constructed narratives about liquidity issues as we finished fiber rings. We just finished the cisco ports
and allowed a backup T1 in for redundancy service needs. You could see the reps pissing themselves
over the coveted user base. I tossed a number internally since the upstream conversation did not go well
and as noted just went private for obvious reasons other than simm security issues already known.
Overall it was the right reason and right time for our needs. The breakout of techs for pop tcip was simple
and few remember. Do no evil we are watching.

thread: l8ter
by aeden
Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:20 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16813782

Re: Financial topics

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/1 ... s_lawsuit/

This why stuff needs to burn to the ground and let the sane go forward.

https://www.fortress.com/shareholders/n ... ment-group

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/5G-ne ... es-awarded

As the Rabbi told about cold irony.

"Whether 5G will actually be useful is still a big question mark," said Shinji Moriyuki, an analyst at SBI Securities. "SoftBank seems to be taking the realistic approach of waiting until it sees a solid business case."

Lets ask the demsheviks what back bone do they have. We know that answer here.