Smaller North Carolina Companies Total Pretax Income Down the Tubes in 2019 ..... Four Quarters 2019 Combined Total Pretax Income Declined By a Huge 66% From the Four Quarters 2018 Combined ..... Second Half of 2019 Total Pretax Income Declined By 74% From the Second Half of 2018 ..... And the First Half of 2019 Total Pretax Income Declined By 51% From the First Half of 2018.

There were 17 North Carolina Companies with stock market caps of between $2 bil and $1o bil in the fourth quarter of 2019.  

From a review of SEC filings, below are the Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for these 17 smaller North Carolina Companies in each of the four quarters of both 2019 and 2018.

		US	US			US	US			US	US			US	US
		GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP
		Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax
		Income	Income			Income	Income			Income	Income			Income	Income
		(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)
		Dec	Dec			Sept	Sept			June	June			March	March
North Carolina Smaller Companies		Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter
Market Caps $2 Bil to $10 Bil		2019	2018			2019	2018			2019	2018			2019	2018
		mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $
Hanesbrands	Winston-Salem	195	190			219	197			179	165			93	95
Premier Inc	Charlotte	156	109			81	95			78	103			85	90
Sealed Air	Charlotte	136	119			102	109			38	117			95	114
First Citizens Bancshares	Raleigh	132	116			160	134			156	123			145	131
Curtiss-Wright	Davidson	119	106			104	93			104	96			70	61
PRA Health Sciences	Raleigh	81	83			86	22			41	42			72	57
Albemarle	Charlotte	78	130			164	155			167	372			154	139
Highwoods Properties	Raleigh	62	55			30	35			41	53			8	34
SPX Corp	Charlotte	31	35			24	9			24	20			5	17
Extended Stay America	Charlotte	25	46			64	91			71	80			35	37
JELD-WEN Holding	Charlotte	20	41			40	(3)			35	57			27	36
Syneos Health	Morrisville	18	60			70	2			34	30			(20)	(34)
SPX FLOW	Charlotte	17	10			20	36			23	23			31	16
LendingTree	Charlotte	5	(2)			26	18			7	15			(7)	12
Cree Inc	Durham	(51)	4			(37)	1			(31)	(12)			(20)	(16)
CommScope Holdings	Hickory	(494)	(44)			(208)	66			(372)	103			(1)	46
Brighthouse Financial	Charlotte	(1,372)	1,787			804	(368)			469	(317)			(953)	(113)
Total all 17 Companies		(842)	2,845			1,749	692			1,064	1,070			(181)	722
		-130%				153%				-1%				-125%
Pretax Income Four Quarters 2019	1,790
Pretax Income Four Quarters 2018	5,329
….. % Change From Prior Year Period		-66%
Second Half 2019	907
Second Half 2018	3,537
….. % Change From Prior Year Period		-74%
First Half 2019	883
First Half 2018	1,792
….. % Change From Prior Year Period		-51%

Such horrific pretax earnings in 2019, coupled with the huge CoronaVirus Losses which will start hitting the books in 2020, signals future very unhealthy pay raises for the many already underpaid North Carolina non-executive employees.

North Carolina Company non-executive workers really have had the deck stacked against them for decades versus what is going on with the sky-high annual percentage pay and employee benefit raises of their Companies' Top-Tier Executives.

So which 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate could best help close this massive annual percentage pay raise gap between North Carolina Company Top-Tier executives and their already massively underpaid, hardworking North Carolina non-executive employees?

More than anything needed to solve this thorny problem is to possess exceptionally strong financial and data science skills, coupled with a keen understanding of how businesses operate.  And you also must have a high degree of  economic fairness. 

Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar all have little if any financial acumen, no data science understanding and little if any understanding of how businesses operate in this fast-changing world.

Further, all four of them worked for the US Government, particularly in the past ten years, when these comparative pay raise results of Top-Tier Executives and non-executive employees were so horrendous, not just in North Carolina but also in every other US State.  

On the positive side, all four of them have a high degree of economic fairness.

Michael Bloomberg has both the financial acumen and the understanding of how businesses operate.  

But he has no data science expertise. 

Also and most important of all, Bloomberg has a low degree of economic fairness.  

In the many years he was accumulating his wealth of $60+ bil, US income inequality expanded dramatically in each year by leaps and bounds.  

So, like many US business tycoons with their sole fixation on maximization of Company profits, Bloomberg accumulated his massive wealth on the backs of the declining US middle class and growing number of people dropped to the lower economic class.  

And while he was accumulating his massive amount of wealth, Bloomberg was strongly anti-union.

And by his punitively racial "Stop and Frisk" policy, many New York City people of color were singled out and physically thrown against the wall.

I think there is only one Democratic Presidential candidate who has the requisite financial acumen, data science skills, understanding of how business operate and economic fairness to help turn the tide around on this massive, continuing US income inequality expansion caused mainly by the massive gap in annual percentage pay raises between executive and non-executive employees  ..... Pete Buttigieg.

On another matter, the very recent Nevada election caucus counts seem very strange to me.

I suggest that it is mathematically impossible for Pete Buttigieg to get a 17.3% Final Vote, which is already after the voter redistribution for the 15% threshold effect, which miraculously dropped down by 17% to only 14.3% in the Nevada County Convention Delegate Vote without some unfair actions to have occurred.

It is even more mathematically impossible for Amy Klobuchar to get a 7.3% Final Vote which dropped down by an amazing 42% to only 4.3% in the Nevada County Convention Delegate Vote without some unfair actions to have occurred.

So, Joe Biden got a Not First Vote but Final Vote of 18.9% in Nevada just edging out Pete Buttigieg's Not First Vote but Final Vote of 17.3%.  But unlike Pete's 17% dramatic drop in the Nevada County Convention Delegate Vote, for some strange reason Biden's Nevada County Convention Vote increased by 7%.

End result, Biden got 9 delegates and Pete only got 3 delegates, even though Biden got a final vote  of 18.9% and barely edged Pete's final vote of 17.3%.  

What you have here is massive vote count corruption in the Nevada Democratic establishment in favor of Democratic establishment candidate Joe Biden.  And the Democratic establishment is asserting that Russia is subverting the US election when it's a drop in the bucket as compared to how the US State Democratic establishments including Nevada are corrupting the vote count?

And all of the Nevada election workers have to sign Non Disclosure Agreements to work there.  I now understand why.

This is why many people have so little trust in the Democratic Party establishment and now realize that the deck is stacked against any Democratic Presidential candidate other than Joe Biden and thus it only makes sense that some of them will probably react by not voting for Democratic establishment candidate Joe Biden in South Carolina and in the Super Tuesday US States.

And for someone to loudly assert many times during the South Carolina primary, where 67% of the voters are black, that he was arrested for Nelson Mandela like Joe Biden did when he actually didn't get arrested for Nelson Mandela, it reveals that Joe Biden is either an opportunistic liar or senile and either way, he has no business being US President.