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The U.S.-China Trade Deal Bamboozle: There is No Trade Deal
October 14, 2019 Great Stuff
You’ve Been Bamboozled Something is bothering me, dear Great Stuff readers. I feel you’ve been done a disservice by the financial media after Friday’s trade-deal love fest. So, to make things painfully clear, let’s just put this on the table now: There is no trade deal. I know, I know. You were told on Friday […] WeWork Slashes IPO Valuation; AT&T’s Hot Mess; Facebook Dating?
September 6, 2019 Great Stuff
Friday Four Play: Back Into the Woods Agony, beyond power of speech. When the one thing you want is the only thing out of your reach! — The Princes, “Into the Woods” All the market wanted today was a solid U.S. jobs report. Wall Street was promised a strong jobs report yesterday by ADP and […]Trade War Part 2: Interest-Rate Cut Boogaloo
June 5, 2019 Great Stuff
The U.S.-China trade war has entered phase 2. The first phase was hiking tariffs and trying to see who would blink first. But neither side blinked. In fact, China called the U.S. on tariffs and backed out of trade negotiations in May amid some pretty strong rhetoric. Now, with both countries feeling the tariff effects, […]Friday Fallout Four-Play: Trump Tariff Tweets
May 31, 2019 Great Stuff
More tariffs are coming, and the market isn’t happy. Let’s get serious for a moment… Last night, President Trump tweeted that the U.S. will impose a 5% tariff on all imports from Mexico until the country stops illegal migrants crossing the border. What’s more, those tariffs could rise to as much as 25% by October if Mexico […] My Thoughts on Whether the Stock Market Has Topped
May 2, 2019 Stocks, U.S. Economy, Winning Investor Daily
Since the S&P 500 bottomed at 676 and change on March 9, 2009, it is up more than 400% with dividends. That means it has risen 18% per year, on average, in the decade since then.