Rudy Giuliani Can Barely Contain Himself Over His Ukraine Findings Rudy Giuliani is grinning like the Cheshire cat. His standard smile. For the past several weeks, the personal attorney to President Trump has been in Ukraine, interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence to shed light on what the Bidens were up to during the Obama years, and get to the botto […]
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Trump Appeal Over Financial Records Disclosure In a mostly expected progression, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals from President Trump in three cases involving efforts to gain access to his financial records. All of the subpoenas sought information from Mr. Trump’s accountants or bankers, not from Mr. Trump himself, a […]
The "Trade Deal": A Pathetic Parody, Credibility Squandered Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Anyone who thinks this bogus "deal" has resolved any of the issues or uncertainties deserves to be fired immediately. Here's a late-night TV parody of a trade deal: The agreement won't be signed by both parties, though […]
South Korea Releases Imagined 'Preemptive Strike' Video On North South Korea's air force has released a provocative video this week showing a simulated pre-emptive strike against North Korean weapons systems at a moment of soaring tensions over a series of missile tests. There are also new concerns Pyongyang could be preparing for the launch a […]
Deal On, Risk Off The great deal ever... is done-ish. And the market's reaction was... Stocks gave back some of their gains from yesterday, selling on the news today... But yuan collapsed, erasing all the gains... Source: Bloomberg And Treasury yields plunged, erasing all the losses from yesterday... Source: Bloomberg And despite the headlines of massiv […]
Avery Hartmans A Tennessee family said that hackers broke into a Ring home-monitoring camera in their 8-year-old daughter's bedroom, and the intruders were able to watch and speak to her. After the incident, Ring told Business Insider "We will continue to introduce additional security features to keep our customer's Ring accounts and devices s […]
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Amazon Vizio's 2019 P-Series Quantum TV offers 4K HDR10/Dolby Vision support, full array local dimming, quantum dot color, and 1,100 nits of peak brightness — all making it a great fit for home theater buyers. With deep black levels and punchy highlights, the display bests several more expensive models from the competition. Viewing angles aren't th […]
This is a preview of the AI in Insurance research report from Business Insider Intelligence. 14-Day Risk Free Trial: Get full access to this and all Fintech industry research reports. The insurance sector has fallen behind the curve of financial services innovation — and that's left hundreds of billions in potential cost savings on the table. The most v […]
Julien McRoberts/Getty Scott Galloway, the bestselling author and well-known tech-industry pundit, is a professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business. The following is his recent blog post in full, republished with permission. It originally ran on his own blog, "No Mercy / No Malice." He says that it's importan […]
Today's Water Cooler: China trade deal, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment, Epstein, oil, real estate, sweet potatoes, Nestlé, Samsung, Hearst, PFAS debacle, water in Maine, Poland, and Brazil, medical bots, fish antibiotics for humans, McKinsey, magic mushrooms
Succinct Summations for the week ending December 13th, 2019 Positives: 1. Stocks again reach all time highs 2. Import and export prices rose 2.0%, both meeting the range of expectations. 3. Home refinance apps rose 9.0% w/o/w, above the previous decrease of 16.0% 4. CPI rose 0.3% w/o/w, above the expected increase of 0.2%. 5.… Read More The post Succinct Sum […]
This is one of my favorite conferences each year: Inside ETFs 2020, hosted by Informa (our co-producers on Wealth/Stack). Its January 26-29th in Hollywood Florida at the Diplomat Hotel. Its a giant 2000+ assembly of talent from the ETF and investing world, and its always a great time. This is what I wrote about… Read More The post Inside ETFs 2020: Agenda […]
My end of week morning train reads: • Don’t Expect the Roaring ’10s for Stocks to Repeat in the ’20s (Bloomberg) see also A so-so economy, low earnings growth, an un-inverted yield curve, and a stand-pat Fed are part of the mix for a ho-hum 2020. (CIO) • Best Buy Bucks the Trend That’s Crushing… Read More The post 10 Friday AM Reads appeared first on The Big […]
Has there ever been a more beautiful, iconic, sexy car made? The E-Type ran from 1961 through 1975, and while most recognize its spectacular styling, few are aware of how significant it was as an innovative automobile. Based on Jaguar’s D-Type racing car — which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1955, 56,… Read More The post 1969 XKE Series II Roadster appeared […]
I am fascinated by the idea of trying to engineer illiquid collectibles — art, cars, even down payments — into liquid, investable assets. We have discussed this previously in terms of survivorship bias and collectible cars, but the latest variations via artworks are very interesting engineering problems. Take for example Masterworks, a site… Read More Th […]
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