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$5 Billion: Facebook’s Price for Your Privacy
July 24, 2019 Great Stuff
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just smacked Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) in the face. The world’s largest social media company must shell out $5 billion in the biggest penalty the FTC has ever handed down. Why the big penalty? Remember Cambridge Analytica? You knew that wasn’t going away. The FTC is penalizing Facebook for how […] The $1 Billion 5G Deal With Intel Won’t Save Apple
July 23, 2019 Great Stuff
We get some interesting mail here at Great Stuff. You never know what’s going to show up in the GreatStuffToday@banyanhill.com inbox. I’ve seen everything from stock advice to insults to poetry. After last week’s Reader Feedback issue, I received a rather interesting question from Edward M.: In 30 years of financial writing, an economics writer […] Earnings Food for Thought: McDonald’s, Chipotle and Starbucks
July 22, 2019 Great Stuff
I have a weakness for ramen. Not the cheap Maruchan stuff that we lived on in college, but the “boutique” stuff you find at your local ramen-bowl restaurants. This weakness proved to be my undoing this morning. I had a bowl of some spicy, chicken-fire ramen last night … and I’m still on fire today. […] The Three Amigos of Banking: JPMorgan, Goldman and Wells Fargo
July 16, 2019 Great Stuff
In a way, all of us have an El Guapo to face. For some, options trading might be their El Guapo. For us as investors, our El Guapo is a big, dangerous earnings season filled with volatility and the threat of an earnings recession. But the three amigos of banking have shown us that not […] Powell’s Testimony Confirms a Massive Bubble Is Ahead
July 12, 2019 Bonds, Economy, Government & Politics, Winning Investor Daily
I’ve noted that the Fed has done a 180-degree pirouette from raising to cutting rates. On Thursday, Powell’s testimony fully confirmed this notion.