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Tesla Sets Walmart on Fire … Literally August 21, 2019 Great Stuff Mr. Powell’s Wild Ride I’m exhausted. Are you exhausted? August has already seen the S&P 500 Index make eight moves of 1% or more. Eight! And the day’s not even over yet, let alone the month. Today, the Federal Reserve will release the minutes from its July 30–31 policy meeting. Wall Street will be scouring […]
The IRS Is Coming for Your Bitcoin Profits July 29, 2019 Great Stuff Fear and Follies on Wall Street We’ve got an interesting week ahead of us. Between a potential Federal Reserve rate cut, Democrats running for president and the IRS going after bitcoin profits, we’ll either be laughing or crying by Friday. Tomorrow, the Federal Reserve begins its two-day meeting to decide how to screw up — […]
$5 Billion: Facebook’s Price for Your Privacy July 24, 2019 Great Stuff The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just smacked Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) in the face. The world’s largest social media company must shell out $5 billion in the biggest penalty the FTC has ever handed down. Why the big penalty? Remember Cambridge Analytica? You knew that wasn’t going away. The FTC is penalizing Facebook for how […]
The $1 Billion 5G Deal With Intel Won’t Save Apple July 23, 2019 Great Stuff We get some interesting mail here at Great Stuff. You never know what’s going to show up in the GreatStuffToday@banyanhill.com inbox. I’ve seen everything from stock advice to insults to poetry. After last week’s Reader Feedback issue, I received a rather interesting question from Edward M.: In 30 years of financial writing, an economics writer […]
Update: Here’s What I Got Wrong … and Right July 5, 2019 Investing, U.S. Economy, Winning Investor Daily Since the final year of the decade is halfway over, it’s time to revisit the predictions I made in December.