What We're Reading "The Fed Is Nervous, And Maybe That's A Good Thing" (Forbes) The historical and cultural differences that divide Europe’s union: (Financial Times) Larry Summers cheer-leading for an inflation outbreak. (Financial Times) G-20 recommends zero sum game to make all better off! (The Wall Street Journal) ‘Peasants With Pitchforks’ Seen If Profits Get Any Fatter (Bloomberg) The Future of the Gaming Industry Quotable: "Of course, we are applying advances in technology. But when you use those advances just to boost the processing power, the trade-off is that you … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Greenspan, Beer and Budgets
Greenspan: Political Crisis Coming What We're Reading: What Democrats and the CBO Don’t Get (The Wall Street Journal) The one percent earn the same share of income as they did under Clinton. (Greg Mankiw’s Blog) "Chelsea Clinton's Husband Suffers Massive Hedge Fund Loss On Greek Investment" (Zerohedge.com) Is the entire oil collapse all about crushing Russian control of Syria? (Zerohedge.com) "The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery at the age of 57 has an idea for a new one at 92" (Quartz) Quotable: Regulatory Uncertainty "We’ve long understood that poorly crafted laws and … [Read more...]
Liftoff?
Could it be that the U.S. has finally reached a state of economic acceleration fast enough to motivate the Fed to raise rates? Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester thinks the economy is strong enough to support “liftoff” on rates. Mester indicates her desire to see a raising of rates in the first half of 2015, though she doesn’t go so far as to aggressively pressure the FOMC. Mester said in her speech (bold emphasis ours): In response to the financial crisis and deep recession, the Federal Reserve has run an extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy to promote its goals of price … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Manufacturing Slowdown
Manufacturing Slowest in a Year The ISM Manufacturing Report on Business was released today and the pace of manufacturing acceleration pulled back to its slowest in a year, 53.5. A number above 50 indicates that manufacturing is still growing, but the closer it gets to 50 the slower the acceleration is. The 53.5 reading is the slowest acceleration in a year and follows another steep decline in December's rate. Quotable: Euro-zone Official on New Greek Government “Everybody [in the eurozone] wants a deal,” said one senior eurozone official. “But through their actions and their rhetoric, … [Read more...]
Top 10: America’s Largest Landowners
From conservationists to media moguls to oil barons, ranchers, and timber tycoons, America’s largest landowners are a diverse crowd to be sure. The one thing the top 10 have in common is that they own over 800,000 acres of land in the United States. John Malone, 2,200,000 acres Ted Turner, 2,000,000+ acres Emmerson Family, 1,860,000 acres Brad Kelley, 1,500,000+ acres Reed Family, 1,370,000 acres Irving Family, 1,250,000 acres Singleton Family, 1,100,000 acres King Ranch Heirs, 911,215 acres Stan Kroenke, 848,631 acres Pingree Heirs, 830,000 acres For the top 100, … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Emergency Grexit?
Syriza Wins New Greek Parliament: Quotable: “Bond prices are now so high that yields on more than $4 trillion of the developed world’s sovereign debt have turned negative. That means investors effectively pay a dozen countries from Germany to France and Japan to borrow.” — Mynanda and Goodman, Bloomberg, Owners of Negative-Yield Sovereign Debt Say They’re No Fools What We’re Reading: Markets’ misplaced faith in central banks (Financial Times) Draghi pumps up everything with QE (Financial Times) The Greek Warning (The Wall Street Journal) Buyers Take a Shine to Gold, Silver … [Read more...]
ECB Finally Gets its Own QE
After years of German opposition and legal wrangling, the ECB will finally get to pursue its own quantitative easing policy. Bloomberg’s Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy write: Mario Draghi led the European Central Bank into a new era with an historic pledge to buy government bonds as part of an asset-purchase program worth about 1.1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion). The ECB president side-stepped German-led opposition to quantitative easing in a once-and-for-all push to revive inflation and the euro-area economy. The central bank will buy 60 billion euros per month of securities until … [Read more...]
The Happiest Countries in the World
This is an excerpt from the January 2015 issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report, where Dick Young helps investors compound wealth with income generating strategies that seek to avoid risk. Dick uses his proven inference reading based investment strategy to recommend stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds generating attractive shareholder returns. Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report is designed for the discerning investor not the fad driven speculator. There's something about the Scandinavian countries. Despite brutal cold and scarce sunshine, the countries at … [Read more...]
Global Currency Wars
This is an excerpt from Young Research’s Global Investment Strategy (December 2014 issue), where we help investors compound wealth with investment strategies that span the global investment landscape. We cover the global stock and bond markets as well as currencies and commodities. Young Research's Global Investment Strategy is designed for the investor who does not want his investment success bound by the opportunities of a single market. The currency wars that the world's major economic powers are engaged in are not being fought with the same tactics as previous currency wars. There are no … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Tuesday Edition
Are You Dropping Cable This Year? What We’re Reading: Tax Reform Should Go Right Down Main Street (The Wall Street Journal) What happens if the ECB pulls a Swiss-style surprise (MarketWatch) Long live print! J.C. Penney resurrects its catalog, after killing it five years ago (The Wall Street Journal) Gloom Mongers Find Company in Bond Traders Seeing Deflation (Bloomberg) NASDAQ CEO tells FED to put down the punch bowl. (The Wall Street Journal) Hawaii’s Solar Push Strains the Grid (MIT Technology Review) Greece Reveals Paradox in Survival of Eurozone (The Wall Street … [Read more...]
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