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Don’t Wreck It, Ralph
June 20, 2019 Great Stuff
I’m no Ralph Kramden, but even I can see that the market is ready for launch. Like I said in yesterday’s Great Stuff, anything but complete inaction by the U.S. Federal Reserve was likely to spark a rally — and save Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s job. All Powell had to do was drop the word “patient” from the Fed’s […]Sprint and T-Mobile Merger: The Tribe Has Spoken
June 12, 2019 Great Stuff
The Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S)/T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (Nasdaq: TMUS) merger is now less of an Amazing Race and more of a season of Survivor. Ten state attorneys general filed a lawsuit this week to block the $59 billion deal, including Mississippi, California and New York. The stage is getting crowded indeed. The upstart duo initially gained approval from games master […]When Rates Rise, It’s Time to Bounce on Banks
June 11, 2019 Great Stuff
In the day, we sweat it out on Wall Street, in a runaway bull-market dream. At night, President Trump tweets about mansions of glory and interest-rate-cutting machines. In his latest series of tweets, Trump is stepping out over the line. “The Fed interest rate is way too high, added to ridiculous quantitative tightening. They don’t […]Carmageddon Is Coming
June 6, 2019 Great Stuff
And I looked, and beheld pale affordable ride-sharing: and his name that caught a Lyft was Death, and Carmageddon followed with him. Are you prepared for the end of times for personal vehicles? Dogs and cats ride-sharing together … mass hysteria! It’s happening already. Well, not the “dogs and cats” thing. They don’t have opposable […]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, […]