What We're Reading: "Americans' Initial Christmas Spending Estimate Is Positive" (Gallup) Happy Halloween: Pumpkin facts. (Visaul.ly) Floating trains that fly (Quartz) Buybacks Accelerate but Meet Cynicism (The Wall Street Journal) Monetary policy as a red herring (The Economist) The QE Record (The Wall Street Journal) … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Crumbling BRICS
Currency Woes Aside from China, the BRIC currencies have crumbled since 2011. What We’re Reading The predictable "unintended consequences" of Obamacare. (The Wall Street Journal) MAULDIN: We Shouldn’t Be the Least Bit Surprised by Sluggish Global Growth (Business Insider) Washington rolling the dice with your tax dollars...again (The Wall Street Journal) There's No 'There' There With The Latest 'Deflation' Scare (Forbes) Minimum Wage Backfire--sadly this comes as a surprise to the Keynesian crowd. (The Wall Street Journal) How Quantitative Easing Contributed to the Nation’s … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Fed Unsupported By Data
What We’re Reading: It pays to be a dad (CNN Money) Cliff Asness on Inflation & Krugman's Arrogance (realclearmarkets.com) The hydrogen & coconut powered vehicle (Quartz) Fed Can — and Should — Ignore Markets Right Now (MoneyBeat) Eight Ways to Help Improve Your Child's Vocabulary (lifehacker.com) Fed's Bullard hits panic button after Fed inflated bubble starts to deflate. (FT Alphaville) Protect Your Wall with a Sponge When Pulling Nails (lifehacker.com) Doug Kass: The Day The Market Died (zerohedge.com) … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Gasoline Plummets, Germany Sags
Dollar Power Drives Gasoline Prices Down What We’re Reading Market Faith in Central Bank Omniscience Being Tested (MoneyBeat) Auto save email attachments in the cloud (lifehacker.com) Eurozone on cusp of triple-dip recession as German exports crumble (The Telegraph) Opinion: U.S. stocks won’t be dragged down by the rest of the world (MarketWatch) Don’t count on a soft landing for stocks (Fortune) Two Fed officials say interest rates to rise in mid-2015 (Fortune) … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: World War III
What We’re Reading: Correlation and causation (tylergiven.com) Wanna be rich--get back to work! (theguardian.com) When not to load up on stocks (Fortune) Don't use one of these passwords. 25 commonly used password list 2014 (Visual.ly) Know Which Fish Are Low in Mercury With This Chart (lifehacker.com) The Market Makes a Case for Conservative Investing (WSJ) … [Read more...]
Monday Melee: Small-cap Edition
Small Stocks Look Toppy What We're Reading Everyone's a stock market genius in a Fed-induced rally (Marketwatch) When not to load up on stocks (Fortune) Wanna be rich--get back to work! (The Guardian) Correlation and causation (Spurious Correlations) Know Which Fish Are Low in Mercury With This Chart (Lifehacker) … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Incomplete Recovery, Tesla, and Apple
Quoted: Apple CEO Tim Cook Tim Cook on Charlie Rose when asked what drives Apple: "I was at Compaq at a time where the objective was to become a $40 billion company. Well, employees don't get excited about that. This isn't something you wake up and you go, 'I'm going to take the hill today to do 40' -- I mean, you know? It's just not that. But changing the world? These are the things that people work for. And this pushes people. And so, this is who we are as people." America's Travel Recovery Still Incomplete: What We're Reading: Minimum Wage-Hiking States Are Seeing Slower Job … [Read more...]
Monday Melee: Strong Rail Traffic
Rail Traffic Signals Strong Growth What we're Reading Worst Things to Buy on Amazon (Kiplinger) Here's Why Fed Needs More Diversity of Opinion (Yahoo) The house made from 4,000 video cassettes and two tonnes of jeans (The Guardian) … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: The Longest Bull Markets, and Coffee
The Longest Bull Markets in the DJIA's History What We're Reading: Where you get the most bang for your buck (TaxFoundation.org) Free iPhone 5 Battery Replacement (Gizmodo) #Buffett, tax the rich, but not me (Wall Street Journal) Warren Buffett's Tax Whopper (Wall Street Journal) The Great American Oil Rush (visual.ly) Go Global. North America a dividend yield laggard (GaveKal Capital Blog) Here's Why #Fed Needs More Diversity of Opinion.(Yahoo! Finance) Worst Things to Buy on Amazon (Kiplinger) Did You Know: Everyone's on Drugs? "According to the latest data from the National … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Real Danger to the Economy
Quotable: “If the Fed gets this wrong here, I mean if [rate increases are] off by six months or a year, is there real danger to the economy? There could be.” - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser Did you Know? "Tuition and fees have risen 538% since 1985, outpacing the CPI by over 400%. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the number of student loan borrowers increased 70% from 2004 to 2012. Now more than 70% of students graduate with loans and outstanding student loan debt totals $1.2 trillion—more than auto and credit card debt. Though it’s … [Read more...]
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