``Far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was declared the winner of Brazil's presidential election, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.'' -- This will end well, we're sure! (As explicit calls for a return to martial conditions...
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Small Is Better and So Is Passive in Money Management S&P’s latest report on fund managers portrays persistent contrasts in performance. Bloomberg, October 22, 2018 Growth stocks are trouncing...
My hoping for a better week all around morning train reads: • What Investors Can Learn From Gamblers (Wall Street Journal) • Keeping at it, by Paul Volcker (Financial Times) • Uber-Inequality: The...
@TBPInvictus here: Dow just crashes through 25,000. Congrats! Big cuts in unnecessary regulations continuing. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2018 The above tweet is one of my...
Nobody dares discuss it openly for fear of triggering a panic, but there aren't enough lifeboats for everyone.
There's no shortage of explanations on the whys and wherefores of the US stock market's recent swoon / swan-dive / plummet. Here's a few...
“The Pension Gamble” goes inside the volatile fight over pensions that’s playing out in one state, and examines the broader consequences for teachers, police officers, firefighters and public...
On October 17, Twitter released an archive of over ten million tweets posted by accounts from 2013 through 2018. Of the total, over nine million tweets were attributable to 3,800 accounts affiliated with the Internet Research Agency, also known...
Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro faces leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party in the second and final round of presidential elections... While polls have been narrowing, Mr Bolsonaro remains in the lead... Two final opinion polls...
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The soaring deficit has been steroids for the US economy, but the government must borrow that money before it can spend it. That means that a trillion dollars a year is now hitting, and will continue to hit the market in massive quarterly waves...
Top execs take "leave of absence" amid ongoing investigations
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My easy like Sunday morning reads: • Emerging markets have a new champion as stocks grow cheaper while values become compelling and their currencies drop (Bloomberg View) • The AI Cold War That...
MAGA Bomber Was A Victim Of An Illegal Foreclosure By President Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
This week on Masters in Business radio podcast, I speak with Jim Millstein, Co-Chairman of Guggenheim Securities, and former Chief Restructuring Officer at Treasury, who was the principal...
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat on the couch, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • The giant of Santa Clara County: Since its inception...
Just about the only bulwark against being silenced by the modern-day tech-corporate-NKVD-Stasi is Patreon.
If you do a search of shadow banning, you'll find sites that claim to help you identify whether Twitter or Instagram has shadow banned your...
I have been checking out Song Exploder — its a great concept for a podcast. I have been checking it out and enjoying the variety of songs covers. Its a very mellow and thoughtful discussion, and...
Succinct Summations for the week ending October 26th, 2018 Positives: 1. GDP came in at 3.5% for Q3, 2 tenths higher than expected 3.3%. 2. Durable goods orders rose 0.8% m/o/m, beating the...
Never Ask an Inflation Hawk to Do a Dove’s Job Trump whines that his hand-picked Fed chief is raising rates too fast. He never should have dumped Janet Yellen. Bloomberg, October 26, 2018 If...
The value of local control and local capital far exceed the pathetic "savings" reaped from shoddy commoditized goods.
What do we make of an economy in which a handful of bubblicious urban areas are magnets for jobs and capital while rural...
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