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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.

Getting Defensive

By Rusty Guinn | January 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Getting Defensive

With aerospace and defense in the spotlight, we turn our own spotlight to the sector. We find a generally weak narrative structure with a lot of vulnerability to positive and negative events. We also find some interesting shift in project-specific narratives for Lockheed Martin (LMT).

Pricing Power (Pt. 1)

By Ben Hunt | January 26, 2019 | 7 Comments

When an inflation regime shifts, the only question that really matters for your investments and your business model is this: do you have pricing power?

Pt. 1 of a three-fer Brief series … why the worst place to be in any services industry is on the product side.

The Zeitgeist | 1.25.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 25, 2019 | 0 Comments

Billionaire penthouses, vertical integration in cannabis, non-musical music power, and a shifting tone in tech.

Mailbag!

By Ben Hunt | January 24, 2019 | 8 Comments

Time to resurrect an old Epsilon Theory feature and make it a regular thing. Because the ET pack has a voice that’s worth hearing.

The Zeitgeist | 1.24.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 24, 2019 | 0 Comments

An American mutual fund gatekeeper does PR for China, DNC gunning for Wall Street, multiple missionaries live from the pulpit in Davos.

The Zeitgeist | 1.23.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 23, 2019 | 1 Comment

Talking ourselves into a recession, trusting our employers, and a fine example of government shutdown Fiat News.

The Zeitgeist | 1.22.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 22, 2019 | 0 Comments

Welcome back, folks. Today, it’s all about cloud and blockchain, but no cannabis. Also: tech earnings, Trump can’t make a deal, and corporate debt.

In the Trenches: As Good As It Gets

By Peter Cecchini | January 21, 2019 | 3 Comments

A generation of investors has Paul Volcker to thank for almost 40-years of slowly falling rates. He handed countless baby-boomers a free 100 points of investing IQ, for which most never thanked him. It was as good as it gets.

In the Flow – One Down, Two to Go

By Ben Hunt | January 21, 2019 | Comments Off on In the Flow – One Down, Two to Go

More than ever I can hear the approaching hoofbeats of the Fourth Horseman – a regime change in inflation expectations. The hooves are still distant, and you’ll have more bites at the portfolio-preparation apple as global growth concerns in China and Europe persist. But prepare you should.