Well, the day is finally here, and quite frankly, I find the whole Will They Wont They thingie reminiscent of a bad RomCom. Instead, try some of our fresh brewed, full bodied morning train reads:
• Failure of the BRICS reveals the folly of snazzy acronyms (Telegraph)
• Macro events, early sixties and seventies, make today’s noise level in the market look like a kindergartener at play after nap time (Forbes) see also Too Many Maybes (Irrelevant Investor)
• Not All Interest Rates Are Created Equal (A Wealth of Common Sense)
• The proper response to a sovereign downgrade by a major credit rater is: “Who cares?” (BV)
• Why the Arctic’s Big Mosquito Problem Is Getting a Lot Worse (National Geographic)
Jim never has a second cup at home . . .
not really good business folks?
http://qz.com/503989/carly-fiorina-and-donald-trump-are-both-right-theyre-both-pretty-terrible-at-business/
The last really good business person in the White House was Herbert Hoover…….
Carly is a good businessperson!
“I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ This is about the character of our nation. If we will not stand up and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on us!” Fiorina said, drawing raucous applause.
http://www.businessinsider.com/carly-fiorina-planned-parenthood-debate-2015-9
GOP Hero will definitely hold The Base with that one. No exaggeration, No Straw man. Just plain talking Uber sucessful Carly.
Why would anyone harvest the brain? Except Carly. She seems to need a brain transplant.
Was Ted Cruz at the debate last night?
Satya Nadella endures a classic Microsoft demo fail moment
http://mashable.com/2015/09/17/satya-nadella-cortana-fail/
We just make great software
Texas Teen Ahmed Mohamed Arrested for Clock Gets Warm Welcome From Silicon Valley
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/texas-teen-arrested-clock-warm-silicon-valley/story?id=33827396
Great to see the liberal tech vanguard sticking to the racist Texas dumb asses who are drowning from their generation of dependency on the OPEC cartel.
Jeb Bush Stands On His Tippy Toes For Group Picture At The Debate Last Night
http://www.barstoolsports.com/newyork/jeb-bush-stands-on-his-tippy-toes-for-group-picture-at-the-debate-last-night/
He hearded that the tallerest person gets picked. Pick me! Pick me! I tallerest! I high five!
Go boy Jeb. Here’s a donation.
Continuing with the theme of the DOJ refusing to actually prosecute any white-collar criminals:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/17/news/companies/gm-recall-ignition-switch/index.html
Cost of doing business for GM. GM can’t take care of it’s executives if they’re held criminally liable and thrown in jail, but as long as the DOJ only hands out fines for criminal misconduct, well…business can take care of their executives. At the expense of investors, of course, and in GM’s case, taxpayers as well…
My question is: do companies go out and find people to sue them for wrongdoing as part of a class-action to wrap the issue up and get the liability off their books as cheaply and quickly as possible while making sure every other victim can only be compensated according to the class-action results?
they got off cheap didnt they? after all the banksters had to pay a few billion
I have a great idea for a new book: “Where are the Customers’ Mansions?”
http://www.businessinsider.com/aerial-photos-of-david-teppers-hamptons-mansion-2015-9
I am sure that a hedge fund person will have designed it to withstand rising sea levels and hurricanes, since that is how they approach the markets.
Senate Republicans’ last gasp on Iran nuclear deal fails
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/politics/iran-nuclear-deal-senate-block/index.html
Gotta love the way the GOP set this up way back so it could pass even if they all went on the record against it. What brave statesmen.
So if Iran doesn’t nuke Israel in the next decade Obama’s a hero and the GOP are obstructionist, short termers
Experts Call Republican Candidates’ Vaccine Claims ‘False’ and ‘Dangerous’
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/experts-call-republican-candidates-vaccine-claims-false-dangerous/story?id=33829987
NOT IF THEY GET POWER AN RAM THROUGH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND INCREASES IN SOCIAL SECURITY MATCHES! THE WAY REAGAN DID.
Fed does nothing.
Boy that bond market is sure “smarter” than the equity markets. Especially those two-year note traders.
Doesn’t the idea of a bunch of red-faced Ted Cruz supporting, Rick Santelli types staring into screens getting capital calls on the bond futures?
Thank God, finally somebody is talking about income inequality in a way that isn’t just using arguments to support his own pay:
http://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-on-ceo-pay-and-inequality-2015-9
Dimon Says IPhones, Cars Help Balance Out U.S. Income Inequality
So, as long as you have an old beater and a smartphone, it’s all good.