Showing posts with label Markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Markets. Show all posts
Thursday, April 24, 2025

In Trade War, Trump Is Finding Tough Adversary in China's Xi Jinping

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This is actually good.  At WSJ , " Xi Is Ratcheting Up China’s Pain Threshold for a Long Fight With Trump ": Censorship and surve...

How the International System Can Survive a Hostile Washington

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From Ngaire Woods, at Foreign Affairs , " Order Without America ": In a remarkably short time, the second Trump administration ha...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Dow Tumbles, Dollar Slides as Trump Renews Attack on Fed

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Continued market chaos, with apologies in advance to your investment portfolio. At the Wall Street Journal , " Stock Market Today: Dow ...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Stagflation?

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The '70s are calling. They want their strong economy back, lol.  At the Wall Street Journal , " A GDP Warning as Signs of Stagflati...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Carol Roth, You Will Own Nothing

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At Amazon, Carol Roth, You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back .
Sunday, May 21, 2023

'Shark Tank's' Kevin O'Leary, 'I have 54 companies in every state and nearly every sector, and we now know what the percentage is, it's just under 40 percent --- 40 percent are never coming back!' (VIDEO)

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Office workers. Are the coming back in the new economy?  Elon Musk say employees working from home are like Marie Antoinette: Let them eat c...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Target Earnings Squeezed as Shoppers Stick to Basics

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Target's getting hammered. Their grocery business takes just 3 percent of the share of total grocery sales in the U.S. And folks aren...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy

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My wife briefly worked there. Briefly. It wasn't her most memorable or rewarding job.  The company made a bad bet on its own-store brand...

Decoding the Bud Light Disaster

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At Instapundit, " THOMAS LIFSON: Decoding the Bud Light disaster as marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid ‘takes leave of absence’ .
Friday, February 3, 2023

U.S. Added 517,000 Jobs as Hiring Accelerated in January

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Well, that recession everyone's been predicting hasn't materialized. This economy is sizzling, *despite* the loathed Biden administr...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Big Banks Predict Recession, Fed Pivot in 2023

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Hmm. Let's see if these predictions hit gold. At the Wall Street Journal , " More than two-thirds of economists at 23 major financi...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

How Caroline Ellison Found Herself at the Center of the FTX Crypto Collapse

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A strange woman. Very strange. At WSJ, " As CEO of Alameda Research, Ms. Ellison took a leading role in helping Sam Bankman-Fried build...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Policies Pushing Electric Vehicles Show Why Few People Want One

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From Bjorn Lomborg, at the Wall Street Journal , " They wouldn’t need huge subsidies to sell if they really were a good choice, and con...
Monday, September 5, 2022

How Many Books Actually Sell?

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 See Lincoln Michael, " No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies: A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Bed Bath & Beyond to Close 150 Stores, Cut Staff, Sell Shares to Raise Cash

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Probably, the most poorly managed major corporation in the country right now. They're close to going out of business. My wife worked the...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

TikTok Influencers Push to Unionize Amazon

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These people are kids with millions of followers on social media.  And they're demanding Amazon pay its workers $30.00 an hour. Right. F...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster Antitrust Case Goes to Court

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Opening arguments were held yesterday.  The attorney for Penguin Random House, Daniel Petrocelli, is a freakin' firecracker. At the New ...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Twitter Says It's Going to Sue Elon Musk for Trying to Back Out of Takeover Deal

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Folks see Musk as a free-speech savior, so it'd be a bummer if the deal doesn't go through. That said, frankly, Twitter's valuat...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Markets Suffer Worst First Half of a Year in Decades

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At the Wall Street Journal , " Investors gird for more volatility; almost everything—from stocks to bonds and crypto—falls to start 202...
Monday, June 13, 2022

The Bear Market Descends

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The fear is palpable. At the Wall Street Journal , " Dow Drops Over 800 Points; S&P 500 Closes in Bear-Market Territory as Stocks ...