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Buy the Blitzkrieg, Sell Retreat

…the investor crowd often has superb intuitions about long-term events … these judgments should be respected and followed.”

    Sunday Coffee Thoughts

    In mountain climbing, there are false summits—you think you are there and discover there is further to go.

      What’s Known

      This was an era where many huge companies had emerged and the public had begun to view such concerns as enemies, fostering the increasing use of antitrust legislation to combat the price-fixing combinations they had formed.

        Sunday Coffee Thoughts

        Extracting the best versions of ourselves is work.

          Feast, Famine & Policy

          The crucial question is: what is happening to consumer spending as a whole? Are auto sales symptomatic of consumer behavior, or will they be offset by reduced expenditures in other areas? We shall only know the answer when it is too late.

            China and Washington’s Monetary/Fiscal Stand Off

            THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. INVESTING IS RISKY AND OFTEN PAINFUL. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

              Sunday Coffee Thoughts

              In one 12-hour period last week, a dear friend, aged 97, passed from this world and a different dear friend became a grandmother to a cherubic girl.

                Reading the Market Action

                THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. INVESTING IS RISY AND OFTEN PAINFUL. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

                  Sunday Coffee Thoughts

                  These are the darkest days of the year in North America, a reminder we live within cycles—seasonal, life stage, economic, historical; it is all, always in motion.

                    What I’m Seeing

                    THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. INVESTING IS RISKY AND OFTEN PAINFUL. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.