Monthly Archives: May, 2019
Lumber Prices Chopped Down by Bad Weather
Bad weather in some key housing markets had tempered demand for lumber, as builders are slowed down. Some big mill owners have even trimmed...
Will Amazon Upend the Freight Market?
Amazon is opening up its internal shipping network to third parties. That could have a major effect on the American transportation market, and on...
Miss This Investing Concept to Your Everlasting Sorrow
Lack of patience, more than anything else, hamstrings investors in their pursuit of profits. I wrote in July 2004 that impatiently trading in and...
Does Private Equity Race for the Exit Spell Trouble?
Stephen Gandel, writing for Bloomberg, explains that private equity companies have shortened the amount of time they spend invested in American companies in 2018....
Americans Won’t Vote for a Return to the Sleepy Joe Economy
Real GDP growth so far in the Trump era has averaged 2.77% per quarter, while during the Obama/Biden era it averaged a sleepy 1.9%.
Originally...