Friday, just hours after China announced retaliatory tariffs on US goods on President Trump ordered US companies to “start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA..” The stakes are high US companies invested a total of $256-B in China between Y’s 1990 and 2017, […]
FLASH: McKinsey’s annual review reveals an expanding and developing industry; more tools for managed money and investors. Note: Private markets, including PE, debt, infrastructure, real estate, and natural resources. Private markets stayed strong in 2018. True, fundraising was down 11%. But $778-B of new capital flowed in. Investors have a new motivation to allocate to […]
Archaeology Find Suggests Humans Left Africa Earlier Stone tools recovered from an ‘dig’ in China suggest that our evolutionary forerunners trekked out of Africa earlier than the experts thought. Until now, the oldest evidence of human-like creatures outside Africa came from 1.8-M-year-old artifacts and skulls found in the Georgian town of Dmanisi. But the new […]
Central Bankers Finding That “Old Tools” Not Working Central bankers are learning that their “old tools” no longer help the economy and might even make it worse. The Big Q: With the tool box empty, what is next? US Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen, speaking last week at the bank’s conference in Jackson Hole, WY, said […]
US Fed’s Ability to Respond to Recession is NIL $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $VXX US Fed officials fear that they lack the policy tools to combat future cyclical shocks to the US economy, an issue expected to be debated at the annual Jackson Hole Wyoming Summit later this week. The historically low Federal funds rate, Zero+, […]
China Considering Boosting Private Investment China’s top economic planning body has suggested more policy tools to reverse the slowing of private investment and bolster economic growth. The government should further encourage private investment with more preferential policies and remove barriers preventing private companies from entering electricity, telecommunications and other sectors that were once dominated by […]
The Fed is Out of “Tools” to Fix US Economy $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $VXX New York Fed President William Dudley said in a speech Monday from Bali, “Market expectations, to my eye, derived from federal funds futures prices, which price in no more than one 25 basis-point rate hike through the end of 2017 … […]
The More You Share Your Network The More Powerful It Becomes $LNKD, $FB, $TWTR Networking is universally recognized as a powerful tool for business people and professionals. Knowing more people gives one greater access, enhances the sharing of information, and makes it easier to influence others for the simple reason that influencing people you know […]
Privacy & Security Concern “Chilling” Internet Users Nearly 1 in 2 Internet users say privacy and security concerns have stopped them from doing some basic things online such as posting to social networks, expressing opinions in forums or even buying things from websites, according to a new government survey released last Friday. This chilling effect, […]
Central Banks Out of “Tools” What is Next? $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $VXX On Wall Street and Main Street there is a growing consensus among participants that the world’s central banks have run out of tools. They certainly seem to have used up all of their monetary tools in an effort to revive economic growth and […]
