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Deflation at the Disco; Atomic Datadog; Musk the Martyr May 12, 2020 Great Stuff Wall Street Spins Records This year is all about spinning records. Now, I love to drop vinyl on the turntable as much as the next guy. OK, probably more. There’s just a warm, nostalgic sound with records that you don’t get in today’s sanitized, digital world. But the U.S. economy hasn’t exactly dropped the decade’s […]
Who Needs Jobs?; Uber Eats $3 Billion Loss; Roku’s Still Boss May 8, 2020 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: The ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edition It’s official. The U.S. economy is in tatters … and Wall Street doesn’t seem to mind. According to the Labor Department, the U.S. lost a record 20.5 million jobs in April. That’s roughly 25 times more lost jobs than in the worst month of the 2008 financial crisis. Furthermore, […]
Jobs on the Line; Peloton’s Doing Fine May 7, 2020 Great Stuff Wall Street’s Breaking Bad This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. — Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Indeed, it is Thursday, dear reader. And you know what that means … weekly unemployment claims and a market rally. (More optimistically, it’s also Reader Feedback day! Read on…) The […]
U.S. Shrinkage, Box Office Trolls, Boeing Blows April 29, 2020 Great Stuff Country Jerome and the Fed And it’s a one, two, three … what are we buying for? Don’t ask me, I don’t care a wit; next stop is a bull market. And it’s a five, six, seven … open up the pearly gates. Well there ain’t no time to wonder why, whoopee! Stocks are gonna […]
Quantum Investing; Beyond Retail; Wayfail; Shwedy Security April 27, 2020 Great Stuff A Quantum Leap Today, dear readers, we take off our quarantine masks and put on our thinking caps. Well … figuratively speaking, at least. Keep those masks on for now, please. Why our thinking caps? Because President Trump’s 2021 budget requests $237 million in funding for quantum computing. Roughly $25 million of that budget request […]