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Powell’s Wake-Up Call; Uber Eats It All; Progyny Stands Tall
May 13, 2020 Great Stuff
You Don’t Have to Call Me Darlin’ When Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke this morning, well … it was all that Wall Street could do to keep from crying. Speaking during a webcast with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Powell warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could “leave behind lasting damage” to U.S. economic […] 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 […] A Double Bottom Would Be Bad News for These Big Companies
May 8, 2020 2020 Financial Crisis, Big Picture. Big Profits., Investing, Stocks
[14-minute video] Giant corporations are using this crisis as an excuse to fleece their customers … but the stock market is about to punish them. 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 […] 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 […]