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Jobs Data Vapor Lock; Shopify Shocks; Gamers Game Amok May 6, 2020 Great Stuff The Market Gods Are Crazy Any Great Stuff readers home-schooling kids right now? It’s quite the experience, let me tell you. New math? Pshaw … I’ve done things with fractions and limits in the past week that would turn you white. Yes, Mr. Great Stuff, we get it. Math is hard. But what about the […]
30 Million Unemployed; Tesla Cries Freedom; Microsoft Goes Hard April 30, 2020 Great Stuff On the Turning Away… …from the pale and downtrodden … and the words that they say which we don’t understand. Wall Street almost — almost — became aware of the U.S. economy this morning. Continuing the epic U.S. employment saga, the Labor Department put another brick in the unemployment wall this morning. Some 3.8 million […]
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 […]
3M’s Mask-on Magic; Pfizer Pfalls; Caterpillar Crawls April 28, 2020 Great Stuff It’s Different This Time It’s the mantra of the hopeful and the rally cry of bullish investors whenever the market takes a turn for the worse. As I scanned headlines in the financial media this morning, the simple truth of these words struck me. Take this morning’s original MarketWatch headline for example: “Stocks rise for […]
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 […]