At The Money: Taking Advantage of Superbooms
At The Money: Jeff Hirsch Why Big Federal Spending Plus Inflation = “Superbooms” (February, 19 2025) Wars, national...
Freezing Order
“Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath“...
A Visual Guide to the World’s Military Budgets
The U.S. is still by far the biggest spender, but the globe is awash in well-funded armed forces. Source: Businessweek The...
Masks Off, Economy On?
To hear an audio spoken word version of this post, click here. As 2021 drew to a close, the Omicron variant was...
War Impacts Stocks Less than You Think
History Shows War Shocks Have a Modest Impact on Equities Market reactions to dangerous events like Russia’s war in Ukraine tend not to...
MSCI: Russia’s Stock Market is “Uninvestable”
Reuters is reporting that MSCI is considering removing all of Russia’s listed stocks from its indexes. The action follows...
Which Matters More to Markets, Omicron or Ukraine?
2014 S&P 500; showing Russian Annexation of Crimea (circled in red) Has it really been two years since my last...
Transcript: Jack Devine
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Jack Devine on the CIA, Afghanistan & Russia, is below. You can stream and...
MiB: Jack Devine on the CIA, Afghanistan & Russia
This week, we speak again with Jack Devine, a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency and the founding...
Afghanistan
People don’t care. At best it’s a high-grossing film with hugely declining numbers after opening weekend that never plays on...