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…
Remember Shaquille O’Neal! The “man in the middle” they couldn’t do anything about, to use the words of Larry Bird after Lakers defeated Pacers in the NBA finals. He was so dominant in the middle that opposing teams had to get him out especially at the end of the game. So they threw 2nd, 3rd…
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…
Even David Axelrod, the winning strategist for President Obama, admitted that this week’s Democratic Convention was better & more effective than his Obama conventions. Hillary Clinton was effective in her speech even though as Axelrod said, “she did not give a great speech tonight“. The speech was well constructed to appeal to everybody from…
A young charismatic terrorist in Iraq, a local leader of a designated terrorist organization, posts photos of himself & his fellow terrorists on Facebook with AK-47s and exhorts his followers to kill American soldiers. What is likely to happen? Would the US army look at his charismatic face and say forget about it? Would 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…
Remember the media turmoil in mid-December 2015 after Trump announced a ban on some Muslims? Remember how Nicole Wallace of MSNBC termed Trump’s comments as “primal desire” and how the show’s host Joe Scarborough announced that the Republican Party would ban Trump from being their nominee in the 2016 election? Our view at that time was…
How many billionaires watched the Republican convention with pain and anguish? Imagine a billionaire who thinks he is so much better than Donald Trump, so much smarter, so much more thoughtful and that he would make a far better President. Can you imagine the pangs of envy, of heart-breaking jealousy that might be raking…
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…
This has been a week filled with events that dominated TV screens. But were these temporary eruptions or do they suggest shifting of tectonic plates underneath? 1.Turkey What happened in Turkey on Friday night was riveting. Sections of Turkish military seized important government buildings in the capital city of Ankara with F-16 fighters flying…