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The Zeitgeist | 1.31.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 31, 2019 | 0 Comments

A big day for the Green New Deal, tax policy old and new, a solution for morale problems at Palantir and a solution for god only knows at Davos.

Uttin’ On the Itz!

By Ben Hunt | January 30, 2019 | 7 Comments

Watching Jay Powell’s press conference today, it hit me – THIS HAS ALL HAPPENED BEFORE.

Back in September, 2013 to be precise, when Ben Bernanke told us that QE was not going to roll off as expected, that “data dependent” meant “market dependent”, and the Fed was a prisoner of the White House and Wall Street.

You are here. Again.

The Zeitgeist | 1.30.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 30, 2019 | 0 Comments

Today’s Zeitgeist has a bit of private markets, Boeing and Apple, conspiracies and tax avoidance.

Kobayashi Maru

By Demonetized | January 29, 2019 | 4 Comments

When facing a no-win scenario, sometimes the only rational choice is for our advisers and managers to change the conditions of the test. That doesn’t mean we have to buy what they’re selling.

The Zeitgeist | 1.29.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 29, 2019 | 0 Comments

Food and retailing are top of mind (and…bullish?), trade continues to dominate content and commentary, and a hero rides in to protect the Lu Ann Platter.

The Road to Tannu Tuva, Pt. 2

By Rusty Guinn | January 29, 2019 | 0 Comments

The next stops in our discovery of the process of discovery? A town of 1,282 people and the mind of a German physicist named Arnold Sommerfeld.

You and Me (But Mostly Me)

By Rusty Guinn | January 28, 2019 | 5 Comments

Like it or not, the 2020 election season has begun. But I’ve got good news for you: someone has The Answer for the political center, and he’d very much like to discuss it with you.

In the News | Week of 1.28.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 28, 2019 | Comments Off on In the News | Week of 1.28.2019

Tech, telecom, pharma and defense report. Plus some…er…highlights, from Davos.

In the Flow – One Narrative to Rule Them All

By Ben Hunt | January 28, 2019 | Comments Off on In the Flow – One Narrative to Rule Them All

Last Halloween the hipsters over at Salesforce.com turned their new San Francisco building into a giant Eye of Sauron. I keep waiting for someone to try this with the Federal Reserve’s Eccles Building, but that would be too on-the-nose.

The Zeitgeist | 1.28.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 28, 2019 | 0 Comments

Oil falls, gas bounces, banks are buoyed. It’s apparently a weird gravity metaphor grab-bag on a Monday Zeitgeist.