Patrick O’Shaugnessy of OSAM did a masterful job tackling a single and deeply complex subject: Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Hash Power – Ep. 1 – Understanding Blockchains Hash Power – Ep. 2 –...
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What Trump is suggesting here is that because of the gains in the stock market -- which have absolutely happened -- the national debt is being reduced... The stock market and the national debt have, quite literally, no direct connection. The...
As retailers consolidate and shrink the number and sizes of their stores, retail center landlords, especially in weaker markets, are being forced to consider a wider range of prospective tenants that might not fit the conventional retail mold....
We tend to measure what's easily measured (and supports the status quo) and ignore what isn't easily measured (and calls the status quo into question).
If we use gross domestic product (GDP) as a broad measure of prosperity, we are 160% better off...
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday gave the Catalan government eight days to drop an independence bid, failing which he would suspend the Catalonia's political autonomy and rule the region directly
His move could deepen the...
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Xi's pharaonic scheme faces geopolitical difficulties, as well. China has 17 land neighbors, many of which are privately wary of becoming more dependent on the country. This includes Russia, a situational ally that's worried about being...
Its all a matter of perspective: I spend a lot of time talking about all of reasons for the cognitive errors we make. Why I emphasize the psychological wetware that make coincidences seem much...
My trillion dollar passive morning train reads: • Passive Powers BlackRock to Nearly $6 Trillion in Assets (Wall Street Journal) see also ‘Passive’ Investing Frenzy Pushes Vanguard to $4.7...
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Central banks continue to focus on consumption inflation, not asset inflation, in their decisions. Their attitude has supported one bubble after another. These bubbles have led to rising inequality and made mass consumer inflation less...
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``While any central banker might be troubled by a stateless currency competing with the coin of the realm, China's efforts to crack down suggest it may be harder than it appears. While the government crackdown sent bitcoin prices plunging as...
``Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said that weak inflation in the U.S. may not be entirely due to temporary factors. Citing inflation expectations surveys, he said they make him "nervous" about some of the explanations for...
``As Kentucky's Governor Matt Bevin and legislators attempt to design a pension reform bill that will save the state's various public pension plans from literally running of cash in "three to five years," or worse yet bankrupting their state,...
``Donald Trump campaigned by promising to run government like a business. Unfortunately, that business is Trump University... "Can't anybody here play this game?" was Casey Stengel's famous lament about his inept 1962 New York Mets. The same...
From the strange and interesting Bloomberg Brain Concentration Index, which tracks business formation as well as employment and education in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics:...
Kobe Steel, one of Japan's oldest manufacturers, said it failed to comply with product specifications that it had promised customers. Though it initially said the issue was limited to certain aluminum and copper components that shipped from...
``Gross, who oversees the $2.1 billion Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, said the Fed's loose monetary policy had resulted in investors chasing yield and thus producing tight corporate spreads everywhere around the globe.''
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