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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 […] CrowdStruck, Ambarella Reigns & Canadian National Embarrassment
September 1, 2021 Great Stuff
CrowdStrike Thunderstruck I was caught … in the middle of a cyberattack. (Thunder!) I looked ‘round … and I knew someone had my back. (Thunder!) You’ve been … CrowdStruck! Now that you’ve got that guitar riff stuck in your head, too, let’s take a gander at Great Stuff Picks holding: CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: ). (It actually […] How to Handle This Out-of-Whack Market
September 1, 2021 Big Picture. Big Profits., Investing, U.S. Economy
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was once coined the “maestro.” That’s partly because of his mastery at orchestrating his message to the markets. But perhaps it’s time for Greenspan to hand this baton to current Chairman Jerome Powell. Going into his highly anticipated Jackson Hole address, it sure seemed like Powell would disappoint at least one corner of the stock market. But instead, Powell’s well-executed address managed to see interest rates remain stable while a broad stock advance unfolded (which I discussed in Your Money Matters this week). 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?