If you’re a Rush fan you’ve probably been asked a couple of questions. One: “Why do you love them so much?” Two: “Is that a girl singing?” But that goes with the territory of being a Rush fan, because being a fan is a badge of honor, of sorts, with the humor not being lost […]
Virginia is for (Gun) Lovers
Votes, like politics, are a lagging indicator. If you stir the pot and rile up enough voters, they’ll make sure to see you at the polls in a couple of months. That might be the best news for President Trump as we’re learning that Virginia is for (gun) lovers. Monday’s peaceful pro-Second Amendment rally in […]
You May Not Be Able to Trust the World’s Largest Asset Manager
Be careful who you let run your money because they might have their best interests in mind, not yours. Despite his fiduciary duty to clients, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, is focusing the company’s efforts on achieving his own social goals, rather than on profits for investors. The Wall Street Journal reports: BlackRock is a […]
Value Stocks are Nearly the Cheapest They’ve Ever Been…
“Value stocks are nearly the cheapest they’ve ever been compared with growth companies,” writes Jason Zweig in his WSJ column Intelligent Investor referencing a study by Research Affiliates. The study finds that value stocks aren’t necessarily inexpensive relative to their own earnings and assets, but they are when compared to growth companies. It looks like […]
You Want to Live Where Your Money is Respected
You meet a lot of people when you ski, especially on a crowded holiday weekend like this last one. We shared a chair with two brothers from Vermont who were none-too-pleased with Bernie Sanders. “He’ll give the whole state away if he can,” said one of the brothers. The other nodded, “Yup.” There was an […]
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BMW Breaks Records in Right to Work South Carolina
When BMW came to America looking for a place to build its award-winning SUVs, it landed in South Carolina. One of the driving factors pushing BMW, and other foreign automakers like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz to South Carolina, rather than Michigan, the traditional home of American automaking, was that South Carolina is a right to work […]
Iran Shot Down Flight 752, But There May Be More to the Story
“The claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a ‘terrorist’ on a mission to carry out an ‘imminent’ attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to be a lie,” writes Philip Giraldi at LewRockwell.com, “so why should one believe anything else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq?” No doubt Ukraine International […]
Henninger: Trump’s Support from Minorities the Sleeper Issue of 2020
From his Wonderland column in The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger reminds readers of the American political theory that “if black support for Republicans ever reached 20% of the total vote, a Democratic presidential candidate would not be able to win, ever.” Henninger also notes that three recent polls performed by Emerson, Marist, and Rasmussen […]
These Stocks Just Crossed an Ominous Threshold: Your Neighbor Probably Owns Them
You can read here about the late Jack Bogle’s concerns with index funds. Now they’ve crossed an ominous threshold: The market cap of the top five companies in the S&P 500 Index represent 18% of the total index capitalization, higher than at any time on record, including the Tech Bubble. Those companies are Apple, Microsoft, […]
Key Figures in U.S. Airstrike that Killed Soleimani
The key figures in the January 3 U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani have been identified, most notably Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and commander of Kataeb Hezbollah. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was listed as a terrorist in the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Some security experts are […]