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Like I said in this morning’s log entry, for the moment, bad data will be good news for stocks. This morning’s hugely important ISM

8/1/19 Thursday Yesterday saw the market take a dip when Fed Chair Powell didn’t offer up the promise (or enough of one) of future

I’m listening to Fed Chair Powell field what I have to say are all the right questions, which, in a nutshell, are,  “if you’re

7/31/19 Wednesday The first tweet I saw early this morning was from Zero Hedge stating that trade talks in China had collapsed after just

7/30/19 Tuesday Woke this morning to a string of tweets from Trump hammering China, literally on the first day of the first in-person negotiations

Ironically, Ray Dalio, the subject of my post earlier this evening, popped up in the Bloomberg article I just read (and sympathize with) subtitled “The

I find myself thinking a lot lately about something I gleaned from an interview that took place a few years ago with a prominent hedge

7/29/19 Monday Huge week for markets this week, as 168 members of the S&P 500 will report earnings, as the Fed will reduce its

Bloomberg market strategist Mark Cranfield pretty well echoes our present concerns: “Investors in U.S. government bonds and equities are both enjoying solid returns this