Looking Backwards … LB #1 The hottest news of the week other than the fires in Los Angeles has been the dumpster fire that has become the bond market. I considered writing about the LA fires but a bunch of rich people losing their McMansions probably doesn’t appeal to anyone other than pyro voyeurs and …
LBLF
Looking Backwards … LB #1 With the beginning of the new year, there are many changes about to happen. New leaders will take the stage, tariffs might be implemented, and markets will fluctuate but some monumental events have already occurred. Let’s go to ZeroHedge, “An era came to a close in Europe on the first …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 We begin this week with less than jolly news for the Christmas season as it appears that the stimulus cash has burned its way through the economy and companies are grasping for ideas. Sean O’Kane writes for Tech Crunch, “Struggling EV startup Canoo says it has furloughed 82 employees and …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 I decided to write another LBLF this week a part II if you will in the spirit of giving. This will focus on foreign policy since we seem to be going through some enormous geopolitical turmoil. Let’s start in Europe with the German governmental collapse. This from ZeroHedge, “Europe is …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 The clock is ticking before the wee orange man takes his second oath and starts issuing tariffs like Chinese throwing stars to the rest of the world. Ping, zing, pow! That is at least what he says, and I believe only some of that so who knows what will happen. …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 Today we see that the ratings agency have finally gotten the pigeon shit out of their eyes and taken a more objective look at these countries that they are supposed to be monitoring. This from ZeroHedge, “Alas, after Marine Le Pen toppled Barnier’s government in a dispute over deficit reduction …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 As I look outside the window and watch the winter rains slowly steal the sunshine and fall colors away from the landscape it occurred to me that something else was reigning across the world. Chaos. ZeroHedge will be featured heavily today as chaos shaking the ship doesn’t seem to generate …
Looking Backwards … I recently came across a funny joke by Norm McDonald in which he said something to the effect, I was reading the history books and the good guys always won, can you believe that? What are the odds? Norm loved to gamble, so I am sure he found the odds being a …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 Today we begin with a fun story written by Andrew English who is very much English and writes for the Telegraph. He got to drive the new Ford Mach-E mustang during a busy travel week in the UK. “Perhaps autumn half-term week was not the best time for driving long …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 One of the weird things I have been hearing about lately is that tariffs are good. Tariffs are about balancing equality amongst countries and protecting countries key exports and have a hundreds of years’ old history. Customers don’t care. We want lower prices. That is why WalMart wins. Always low …