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General Motors’ Strike Spoils October Job Growth November 1, 2019 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: The Sugar Rush Edition Sugar, sugar everywhere! Let me set the post-Halloween scene in the Hargett house: If Alderaan were made of candy, and the Death Star blew it up in my kitchen … that’s what I’m living with right now. My girls are bartering candy like Jawas downstairs as I write […]
Lithium Stocks Are Plunging — It’s Time to Sell October 21, 2019 American Investor Today, Investing, Natural Resources The green energy revolution raised the demand for the battery metal lithium. But the oversupply of this metal has caused a huge dent in lithium-mining stock prices. Matt Badiali talks about the importance of having an exit strategy — especially when you invest in natural resources. (4-minute read)
Spooky Economic Data; AMD Inside; Costco Is Still Killing It October 4, 2019 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: Everybody Walk the Dinosaur I don’t like being a bear. Like most investors, I’d much rather see stocks go up. It’s so much easier and simpler to make money that way. There’s no short selling, no weird inverse exchange-traded funds to mess with and no buying put options or selling call options […]
Spooktober Is a Scream as Markets Fall 3% in 2 Days October 2, 2019 Great Stuff Spooktober Starts With a Scream According to my daughters, October is “spooky time!” Given how this month started off, they are more right than they know. It’s only the second day of the month, and both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index are down roughly 3%. If that’s not spooky, I […]
The Fed’s Biggest Nightmare; Retail Gets Real; WeGiveUp October 1, 2019 Great Stuff Is the U.S. Economy Going Stag? I saw an ugly word pop up over the weekend. No, not that word … or that word, either. Seriously, you kiss your mother with that mouth? The word was “stagflation,” and it’s the word that the U.S. Federal Reserve fears most of all. Now, stagflation is traditionally defined […]





