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3 Things: Retail Sales, Ignorance & Return Reality
Turning To Debt To Sustain Living Standard There was an awful lot of cheering about the recent retail sales report which showed an uptick of 0.8% which beat the analyst’s estimates of 0.6%. Despite...
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Weekend Reading: The Trump Effect
After more than a week following the election, the markets, and a large chunk of the nation, remain a mixed bagged of emotions ranging from exuberance and disbelief to anger and depression. While I...
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Don’t Be The Turkey 11-19-16
Get Daily Updates: Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, Sound Cloud MISS THE LATEST WEBINAR? See All Our Previous Web/Seminars Here Notice Since I am going to be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with my...
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Trumponomics – The New Hope 12-2-16
Get Daily Updates: Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, Sound Cloud MISS THE LATEST WEBINAR? See All Our Previous Web/Seminars Here Notice Starting this week, I am going to start streamlining the newsletter...
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Can Trumponomics Fix What’s Broken?
In this past weekend’s missive, I stated: “Following the election, the market has surged around the theme of ‘Trumponomics’ as a ‘New Hope’ as tax cuts and infrastructure spending (read massive...
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Technically Speaking: Will Santa Come To “Broad & Wall?”
“Technically Speaking” is a regular Tuesday commentary updating current market trends and highlighting shorter-term investment strategies, risks, and potential opportunities. Please send any comments...
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#FPW: 5 Ways To Win The Battle Against Plastic
Credit cards are plastic candy for American consumers. We can’t get enough. It appears that household debt reduction is over and consumers are returning to the feverish credit heydays pre-Great...
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Mind Games
In “Bubbles and Elevators”, we discussed how human beings do seemingly ridiculous things to fulfill their instinctive need to mimic what others are doing, right or wrong, logical or illogical. The...
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Carrier & The Broken Window Narrative
“Trump saves jobs in Indiana before even being President. This is how you make ‘America Great Again.” Between promises to cut corporate taxes from 35% to 15%, reduce regulatory burdens and penalize...
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Weekend Reading: The Trump Train Continues To Roll
The market rally on Wednesday was quite a stunner given the already full extension of the market advance following the election. However, as Art Cashin noted in his latest note to his clients...
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Dow 20,000 12-9-16
Get Daily Updates: Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, Sound Cloud MISS THE LATEST WEBINAR? See All Our Previous Web/Seminars Here Review & Thoughts On “Dow 20,000” This Looks A Lot Like 1999 Last One...
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Has Oil’s Problem Been Solved?
Over the weekend, there was a surge of excitement in Houston, where I live, over the potential selection of Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon Mobil, as Secretary of State. Given that Houston has about...
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Technically Speaking: Bullish Or Bearish? What The Charts Say
During my morning reading, I ran across an interesting article from Paul Lim via Time giving several reasons why the stock market will “rise for a ninth straight year.” “For ordinary Americans, 2017...
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Banks in Drag : The Russell 2000 Exposed
In “Passive Negligence”, we highlighted how investors, on the margin, have been shifting from an active investment style to a more passive approach by favoring index and sector ETFs and mutual funds...
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#FPW: 5 Year-End Money Moves To Make
It’s easy to overlook year-end opportunities among the hustle and bustle of holidays. However, consider these 5 money-smart moves before 2017 rolls in. It’s time for an ETA on your FSA A Flexible...
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3 Things: What’s Driving Rates, Trade & Fantasy Girl
Rates Are Rising Because Of China, Not Inflation There has been a lot of angst in the markets as of late as interest rates have risen back to the levels last seen, oh my gosh, all the way back to last...
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Weekend Reading: Copious Cognitions
Over the last few week’s I have discussed the post-election surge in the market based on rather optimistic outlooks as opposed to the technical underpinnings that currently exists. As I specially...
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Fed’s Fantasy Vs. Reality 12-16-16
Get Daily Updates: Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, Sound Cloud MISS THE LATEST WEBINAR? See All Our Previous Web/Seminars Here Missed It By That Much – “Dow 20,000” Fed’s Fantasy Vs. Reality Sector...
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Media Headlines Will Lead You To Ruin
The post-election euphoria has been quite amazing as the markets have surged more than 8% since then. Of course, the election of Donald Trump was supposed to be a disaster, but that rhetoric quickly...
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Technically Speaking: Christmas Cheer or Excessive Exuberance?
Over this past weekend, Barron’s Magazine published its big story the “2017 Market Outlook.” Here is what was interesting, after 8-years of a bull market advance not one of the forecasters had a...
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