With earnings from three of the four biggest banks in, one metric stands in sharp relief. Mortgage lending just keeps plunging. In the fourth quarter, mortgage originations at Citi C, +4.16%   were down 23% compared to a year ago. At Wells...

Stock-Pickers Don’t Know How to Sell They actually do OK figuring out what to buy. But they need to do a better job unloading stuff. Bloomberg, January 15, 2019       I usually excerpt my column...

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • Consider Firing Your Male Broker (New York Times) • “2019 will be the year of the stock-picker” – and other nonsense to ignore (Moneyweek) • Do Economic...

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If we follow the logic and evidence presented in these seven points, we are forced to conclude that the fractures in France, Germany and the EU are widening by the day.
When is a nation-state no longer a functional state? It's an interesting...

Despite what you hear about artificial intelligence, machines still can’t think like a human, but in the last few years they have become capable of learning. And suddenly, our devices have opened...

The Economy Is Finally Coming Through for U.S. Workers Decent wage gains are showing up in paychecks. That should continue for a while. Bloomberg, January 7, 2019.         Last week, I discussed...

My back to work morning train reads: • Why a 2015-2016 Mini-Recession May Be a Boon to Us Today (CIO) • Stock Markets and the Rule of Law (TRB) • What Amazon’s Rise to No. 1 Says About the...

This exhaustion of the neocolonial-neofeudal model was inevitable, and as a result, so too is the decline and fall of the European integration/exploitation project.
That a single currency, the euro, would fracture rather than unite Europe was...

  Last week, I jumped on the phone with J.C. Parets to discuss behavior and technical analysis on his podcast called Technical Analysis Radio. Specifically, how we can track investor attitude and...

  The transcript from this week’s MIB: Len Kiefer, Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac, is below. You can stream/download the full conversation, including the podcast extras...

My easy like Sunday morning reads: • How Divorces Work for the Super-Wealthy: Jeff Bezos is splitting up with his wife with $137 billion in assets to divvy up. (The Atlantic) see also Bezos...

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat on the exercise bike, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • There Will Be More Rude Awakenings: Dan...

Succinct Summations for the week ending January 11th, 2018 Positives: 1.  Trade negotiations between US & China appear to be progressing towards a denouement as political, economic market pressure...

Data Picks Investments, Stories Sell Them How investment products are created and sold now is the reverse of two decades ago. Bloomberg, January 11, 2019.       I want to try something as little...

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