What happens when Paul McCartney asks, “What are you doing for the next few years?” Guitarist Laurence Juber (better known as “LJ”) says he thought about for a nanosecond, before saying “I guess I...
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The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Colombia Pink Bourbon Los Cedrol coffee, grab a seat on a hanging chair, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad...
This week sees the the return of Laurence Juber, musicologist and guitarist extraordinaire, on my weekly podcast. His latest acoustic guitar album, LJ Can’t Stop Playing the Beatles! is just out,...
``"Like many of our supporters, we were excited to be an innovative force in the emerging space of content creation and its funding. Unfortunately, as a startup, we do not have the necessary resources to both develop our [decentralized...
Succinct Summations for the week ending September 1st, 2017 Positives: 1. Q2 GDP was revised up from 2.6% to a 3% SAAR. 2. ADP employment came in at 237k versus a 185k expected reading....
Coastal Houston is the site of a large concentration of chemical plants, refineries, superfund sites and fossil fuel operations. Some have suffered damage from Hurricane Harvey, releasing toxic compounds into the environment, and...
``For the second month in a row (and 3rd of the last 4), US construction spending dropped in July. This dragged the year-over-year growth to just 1.8%. The last two times construction spending growth slowed to this rate, the US economy collapsed...
Billionaire Trust Fund Baby Turned Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Wants To Eliminate Student Loan Debt Forgiveness
Two Very Different Stories About Amazon The best thing since credit cards or the next Sears? Bloomberg, September 1, 2017 Moody’s Investor’s Service released a very interesting report on...
Some $8.9 billion of loans packaged into commercial mortgage-backed securities since the financial crisis are supported by Houston-area offices, malls and hotels, Morgan Stanley analyst Richard Hill said in a note Monday. And, across Texas,...
While the politicians and the mainstream media are playing down any concerns about the US debt ceiling, Treasury Bill market participants are seeing chaos as the yield curve has snapped across the Sept-Oct divide with panic-buying in bills that...
U.S. job growth slowed more than expected in August after two straight months of hefty gains, but the pace of increase should be more than sufficient for the Federal Reserve to announce a plan to start trimming the massive bond portfolio it...
Republican leaders recently offered reassurances that when Congress tackles taxes this fall, the mortgage interest deduction will be protected.
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The vast majority of people see no tax benefit from the deduction, because just 20 percent of...
``Motiva Enterprises' Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, the nation's largest, may be shut as long as two weeks for assessment of the plant and repair of any damage, sources familiar with plant operations said on Thursday.''
Treasury secretaries and other Cabinet members not involved with national security have traditionally flown on government planes only on rare occasions, including international trips, while taking commercial airlines for other domestic...
The tepid outlook follows another disappointment for shareholders on Wednesday, when Warren Buffett threw cold water on the idea that Kraft Heinz Co. would buy a company like Mondelez International Inc. Investors interpreted the remarks as a...
As [666 Fifth's] fate became increasingly bleak, the family, rather than forfeit, decided to go big. Their plan was to raze the structure and replace it with a glimmering Zaha Hadid-designed tower of massive proportions. The scale of the plan...
“This is the conclusion on which I base my facts.” -Adlai Stevenson The folks at Birinyi Research point out that despite all of the angst and hand wringing, the market breadth — the measure of...
Welcome to September! Kick the new month off with our end of the Summer, pre-3 day weekend, NFP day morning train reads: • What Does It Cost To Start A New Farm? (Fast Company) • It’s Time To...
On Fridays, I feature some beautiful work of rolling sculpture. I like sleek, go fast beauties. However, beauty is more than lines and speed; automobiles are supposed to serve multiple purposes. The...
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