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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 […]
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 […]
Make America Confident Again; Musk’s No-Diesel Legal Weasel May 11, 2020 Great Stuff
Confidently Overconfident It’s one thing to be confident, dear reader. It’s another thing entirely to be blindly overconfident. Today, we saw Wall Street give a pause to last week’s massive rally, following one of the most devastating monthly U.S. jobs reports ever. It seems that more than a few analysts are starting to realize just […]
Jobs on the Line; Peloton’s Doing Fine May 7, 2020 Great Stuff
Wall Street’s Breaking Bad This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. — Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Indeed, it is Thursday, dear reader. And you know what that means … weekly unemployment claims and a market rally. (More optimistically, it’s also Reader Feedback day! Read on…) The […]
Jobs Data Vapor Lock; Shopify Shocks; Gamers Game Amok May 6, 2020 Great Stuff
The Market Gods Are Crazy Any Great Stuff readers home-schooling kids right now? It’s quite the experience, let me tell you. New math? Pshaw … I’ve done things with fractions and limits in the past week that would turn you white. Yes, Mr. Great Stuff, we get it. Math is hard. But what about the […]






