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Trump’s Tweets Impacts Chinese Tariffs; Tesla’s Shocking September September 12, 2019 Great Stuff As the Trade War Turns Big news: The hike in Chinese tariffs has been delayed! There were also reports from Bloomberg that tariffs could be rolled back in some cases, due to an interim China trade deal. (This interim trade deal was later strenuously denied by the White House.) Everybody rally? Last night, President Trump […]
Fear Did Not Win on September 11, 2001 September 11, 2019 Great Stuff Fear Did Not Win I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing on this day 18 year ago. It’s one of those memories that’s forever burned in my brain … like January 28, 1986. On September 11, 2001, I was working as an inventory database specialist at a small manufacturing plant in […]
JPMorgan’s Steaming Cup of Volfefe to Measure Trump Tweets September 9, 2019 Great Stuff JPMorgan’s Steaming Cup of Volfefe It was only a matter of time. President Donald Trump’s tweets have become a market force all on their own. So, it was only natural for some industrious soul to find a way to index the impact of those tweets. Enter JPMorgan’s Volfefe Index — a Great Stuff-worthy mashup of […]
WeWork Slashes IPO Valuation; AT&T’s Hot Mess; Facebook Dating? September 6, 2019 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: Back Into the Woods Agony, beyond power of speech. When the one thing you want is the only thing out of your reach! — The Princes, “Into the Woods” All the market wanted today was a solid U.S. jobs report. Wall Street was promised a strong jobs report yesterday by ADP and […]
China’s Breakthrough Tweet; Slack Gets Cut; Kellogg’s Incogmeato September 5, 2019 Great Stuff A Tweet Chinese Surprise I’m watching the markets tick higher today with amusement. The Dow is up 200 … 300 … 400 points. For some reason, I’m hearing this in Bono’s voice from “Bullet the Blue Sky.” And he’s peelin off those dollar bills, slappin them down. One hundred, two hundred. As Great Stuff predicted […]





