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Omaha Oracle Blindsided; Tyson’s Chicken Gets Fried May 4, 2020 Great Stuff May the 4th Be With You Wall Street faced rising U.S.-China trade tensions and plunging oil prices today … again. Seriously? Is it just me, or are the writers for this season of “Wall Street” quickly running out of ideas? But, the real story of the day wasn’t falling oil prices or trade wars — […]
Tariff Man Strikes Again; Clorox Cleans House May 1, 2020 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: The “Return of Tariff Man” Edition Dateline: May 1, 2020 — “Tariff Man” strikes again! You thought he was gone, dear reader, but Tariff Man is mulling a return from retirement. We haven’t seen this much groaning since Rob Gronkowski’s appearance on The Masked Singer. According to The Washington Post, U.S. officials […]
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 […]
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 […]