What Early GDP Numbers Are Saying
An unprecedented collapse in international imports in the second quarter meant that US consumers were … well, still spending plenty of money importing things from foreign countries!
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The Big, Beautiful Trade Deals That Aren’t.
Trump continues to tout the value of trade deals, even though we’re now paying billions more in tariffs– that we weren’t paying a year ago. It’s a sign of an increasingly chaotic environment of market information, and one that markets seem to be completely unfazed by. For now.
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The Precarity of the Frothy AI Market
News broke over the weekend that a Chinese-developed, open-source large language model AI product is delivering comparable results to ChatGPT’s
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You’ve Heard Of Socially Responsible Investing. Now Get Ready For… Socially Irresponsible Investing?!
A new conservative investment fund seeks to invest in “socially conservative” products, identifying a market of interested, “un-woke” investors. The only problem? Well, turns out the most profitable companies are all actually pretty socially liberal.
Read More“Pity The Downtrodden Hedge Fund Manager,” And Other Tales
Twitter had some feelings when hedge fund managers complained that Redditors had manipulated the price of stocks they shorted.
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I’m Getting An MBA Because You People Are Wrong
A tweet about Kamala Harris highlights how woefully ignorant many people are about financial markets and how this harms us in the quest for formulating
meaningful policy, change, and discourse.
How Losers Still Get Paid: Why Bankruptcy Can’t Rein In Executive Compensation
IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE BILLIONS OF ONLOOKERS OBSERVING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, you might be wondering: what’s
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The Fed’s COVID19 Rate Cuts Can’t Stop What’s Coming
Corporate America had beaucoup problems before COVID19 hit the scene. Now, it’s just a matter of time before the corporate debt bubble bursts– with massive implications for the US economy and worker.
Read MoreCoronavirus and the Stock Market Correction
A 10% dip in stocks still leaves the stock market at a higher valuation than the peak of the 1929 market. That’s a problem.
Read MoreDonald Trump vs. The Stock Market: Electability and the Coming Crash
The Donald Trump stock market seems to post daily records, which has implications for those vying for the White House. But the bull market is not immortal.
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