Look back to August 16, 2016. That was the day Candidate Trump went Back to the Trumpian Movement with a rousing speech in West Bend, Indiana. Robert Costa of Washington Post praised that move, Chris Mathews of MSNBC gushed “That is great Stuff” and, Mark Halperin, then of Bloomberg & MSNBC, said: “That may…
Back in 2015, we were enthusiastic proponents of a deal with Iran. Our basic point was simple – Balance of power in the Middle East was an important American objective and the inability to work with Iran was hurting that objective. Stratfor had made the same point in 2015: “For the United States, the…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
We saw a tweet this week from a financial reporter who tweeted about two men accidentally bumping into her at a busy conference. She said they both apologized but she tweeted about “incident” any way calling it “bodyslamming”. We asked her, mostly in jest, whether she had also “apologized” to them for “bodyslamming” them….
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
This week’s summit between North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s Moon Jae In is momentous. Because the aims announced by the two leaders are momentous – To end the State of War between them this year and complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. This Summit was made possible by the…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Do you even remember the missile strikes on Syrian chemical facilities of last weekend? They were a kinda big deal and seemed even bigger a week ago. The strikes were in Damascus, the capital of Syria. The capital was guarded by sophisticated Russian anti-missile system. The regime is protected by Russian military and the…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Editor’s Note: This article discusses the reality behind this week’s “rape” tumult in India. It will mince no words in laying out the real picture of what drives “rapes” like this in addition to “traditional” rapes done for sexual purposes. We warn readers that candor in this discussion is likely to offend sensibilities as well…