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Senate Wise Guys Draw China Eyes May 21, 2020 Great Stuff The New Red Scare Here we are… Another Thursday, another weekly initial jobless claims report … and another stock market rally? Some 2.4 million Americans filed for first-time unemployment claims last week. The nine-week total of continuing claims now stands at nearly 39 million. Despite Main Street’s pain, Wall Street’s song remains the same. The […]
Retail Weeps, China Creeps, Bankers Beat and Testing Sleeps May 15, 2020 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: You Down With PPT? Holy cats! It was one busy Friday. I mean, we had a literal smorgasbord of market-moving data … all in one day: Consumer spending set another record in April, plunging 16.4%. President Trump blocked semiconductor shipments to Huawei. China threatened to activate its “unreliable entity list.” Trump questioned […]
A Claim Too Far: The Market’s Line in the Sand May 14, 2020 Great Stuff Batten Down the Hatches I struggled with sugarcoating things for you today, but then I remembered … this is Great Stuff, we don’t do that here! For the past couple of weeks, the market has idled in the eye of the pandemic storm. For all the volatility, the market has made little headway since early […]
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 […]





