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The Labor Day Labor Kerfuffle, DiDi Not Dead & Fubo Not Fubar’d September 3, 2021 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: The “Manic Depression” Edition Stock market so willing, the sweet cause in vain. You make jobs, you break jobs. It’s all the same. Bull market, sweet bull market … I wish I could invest. The U.S. jobs market’s a frustrating mess! Is that … is that “Manic Depression” by Jimi Hendrix? That’s […]
Hyzon Biden Its Time, Ripping Robinhood & Great Stuff Picks! September 2, 2021 Great Stuff Great Stuff Picks: Do The DEW It’s five o’clock on a Thursday. The Great Ones shuffle in. There’s an old man emailing me, making fun of my bourbon again. He says: “Mr. Great Stuff, where is your portfolio?” I’m not really sure how it goes. But it shows up every now and then … when […]
Wall Street’s Going Crazy Over This EV Startup September 2, 2021 Investment Opportunities, Winning Investor Daily Wall Street is valuing one EV startup higher than Volvo, General Motors, Ford and many other big-name automakers.
Robinhoodwinked! August 31, 2021 Great Stuff Robinhood’s August Burns Red And I think the brokerage’s merry men would rather wake up when September ends… Robinhood (Nasdaq: ) has had an insane, narrative-driven month: Fresh off its IPO, Robinhood saw the Cathie-Wood-driven “meme stock rally that’s not a meme stock rally.” But that ARK-fueled summer had come and passed, and Robinhood knows […]
We’ll Pay You to Take Our Money August 31, 2021 Big Picture. Big Profits., Economy, Investing What if the Federal Reserve tried to give away money … and nobody wanted it?
That’s exactly what’s happening.
Last week, the stock market behaved as it always does in the run-up to a big Fed announcement.
Stocks traded sideways all week. Then on Friday, when Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank wasn’t going to be changing anything soon, everyone started buying again.
This is a familiar routine. It’s based on the assumption that the Fed has the power to raise or lower interest rates by buying bonds out of the market in exchange for cash injections.
But what if that assumption is wrong?





