Related Berger: Why I Bought Bank Of America Shares This WeekBig Jobs Report Not The Only Headliner—Watch Europe, ChinaBeyond The Biotech Space – Paycom Software Inc NYSE PAYC(Marketfy)A new report by BNP Paribas looks at the extraordinary recent gains in China’s A-share markets and presents the case that China is in the middle of a major equity bubble.BNP lays out […]
Inconceivable? Consumer Comfort among the highest income earners in America has totally and utterly collapsed. Despite record-er highs in the US equity market and promises from every talking head that Q1 was a blip, those earning $100k or over have seen their ‘comfort’ crash to the lowest since September…Summing up the next FOMC meeting…Average:5Your rating: None Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Stock markets around the world have been on an extended bull run for a long time now, but economists are getting increasingly worried that it could soon be coming to an end.Two new charts, from Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, show that shares are in too-good-to-be-true territory and that if history is anything to go by, they’re […]
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“We’re not gonna make it, are we ? People, I mean.”
“It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.”
“Yeah. Major drag, huh ?”
From James Cameron’s ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’.
Here is a thought experiment. It is January 2000. The last wild Pyrenean ibex has been found dead, squashed by a tree. America Online has just […]
Benchmarks finished mixed on Tuesday after positive housing numbers raised investor concerns about the timing of a rate hike. Housing starts soared to their highest level in almost seven and a half years in April. While the Dow closed at a record level for the second consecutive session, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended in the red.For a look […]
Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee tells Republicans on Friday the way to get votes in 2016 is get people to focus on whether their own personal economy has recovered. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee told Republican party faithful Friday the key to winning the White House is getting people to ignore a booming stock market and […]
A copyright lawsuit has finally stopped the crazy stock market streak of Beijing Baofeng Technology – Quartz
For whom the bell tolls.(Reuters/Stringer)
SHAREWritten bySteve MollmanObsessionChina’s TransitionMay 15, 2015It had to end eventually. News of a copyright dispute has broken the breathtaking post-IPO rise (paywall) in the share price of Beijing Baofeng Technology, which offers online videos, a media player, and a low-price […]
Good to be back in the saddle after of a week of traveling in Silicon Valley, Napa and San Francisco. And I thought New York real estate prices were crazy.Whenever I am away, I like to ease back into the groove by reviewing some broad market and economic metrics. It isn’t that a lot changes in the day-to-day or even […]
So I wanted to show off my Savage Worlds campaign guide. This is a set of brief notes, species, equipment, and edges (the notes are currently made for Savage Worlds, but do I plan to make some adjustments for Mini Six and Fudge). All of it detailing a combination of Space Opera, Stars Without Number, and Aliens all sort of […]
Cuba once had a stock market, the La Bolsa de Valores de la Habana, which lasted from the 1920s until 1959, when the Cuban revolution ended private ownership in the country. The Havana exchange was, in fact, one of the largest stock exchanges in Latin America.Now, as President Obama moves the U.S. closer to ending the 60-year-old trade embargo with […]
