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Tesla: To Infinity and Beyond? June 2, 2020 American Investor Today, Stocks, Technology
(5-minute read) This weekend saw a historic rocket launch — the first time American astronauts have been launched from American soil in nine years. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is ushering in the future, and Chad Shoop expects his other companies to benefit.
A Claim Too Far: The Market’s Line in the Sand May 14, 2020 Great Stuff
Batten Down the Hatches I struggled with sugarcoating things for you today, but then I remembered … this is Great Stuff, we don’t do that here! For the past couple of weeks, the market has idled in the eye of the pandemic storm. For all the volatility, the market has made little headway since early […]
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 […]






