Here’s an excellent rundown by Justin Bariso at Inc., on how to run a meeting like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Bad meetings: We've all experienced them. Whether it's poor planning, too much talking, or lack of preparation, bad meetings waste precious time and money. But Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos may have cracked the code for making meetings more productive. By means of his annual letter to shareholders, as well as a recent interview, Bezos gave some insight into what the Amazon meeting culture looks like. It all comes down to following three simple rules. "Two pizza" … [Read more...]
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
If you enjoyed Ken Burns’ wonderful Country Music and are feeling like you want more, don’t despair because there’s another music documentary for us to look forward to. “How do you sum up the life and career of Miles Davis in just under two hours?” asks JazzTimes. “That was the challenge that noted documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. face with his latest project, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, (named after the 1957 LP collection of recordings from 1949 and 1950) which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and later screened at the Maryland Film Festival in Baltimore in … [Read more...]
Bernie Sander’s 8% Wealth Tax is Coming for Your Money
“Enough is enough,” Bernie Sanders said Tuesday. “We are going to take on the billionaire class, substantially reduce wealth inequality in America and stop our democracy from turning into a corrupt oligarchy.” Except there’s one small problem. The billionaire class he’s after would apply to married couples with a net worth of at least $32 million and individuals with $16 million. That’s not the billionaire class. Uncle Bernie’s tax would rise to 8% for married couples with assets of at least $10 billion. Believe me, if he thought being a billionaire was tough, try finding the … [Read more...]
Tucker Carlson’s Best Interview of the Year
Recently Tucker Carlson hosted the executive director of The American Conservative magazine, Johnny Burtka, on his show to discuss pro-family policy. The segment was a powerful response to those Tucker called climate alarmists for convincing young people to not have children. Burtka does a great job of explaining a family first agenda for America. … [Read more...]
Vanguard is Telling You the Problem with Indexing
If you want to understand the problem with index investing, then consider what the king of indexing is doing. Recently Vanguard announced its robo-only advisor service. If you signup for this, you will not speak with a live representative and you will not be allowed to invest in non-Vanguard funds. When you step back and consider all of the advertising Vanguard is doing for its actively managed funds the reason becomes crystal clear. I want you to pay attention here. Indexing or passive investing will destroy the wealth of the masses asleep at the wheel. You will not be one of them, I … [Read more...]
The Left Just Keeps Missing on Kavanaugh
Despite numerous attempts at character assassination, the left just keeps missing in their attacks on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel explain: Believe it or not, it was a year ago that a constellation of left-wing activist groups cooked up a series of outlandish lies designed to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court. The national news media, as you will remember, joined the smear campaign. They repeated and magnified the slurs. But in the end, it was to no effect. Kavanaugh was confirmed anyway. Why? Because not a single allegation against him was … [Read more...]
Your Retirement Life: Is Vanguard Throwing Caution to the Wind?
You may have read that Vanguard is moving into a digital robo-only service. My take? Well, first off, when you sign-up for Vanguard advisor services you’re only going to be offered Vanguard funds. You will not be investing in my preferred, dividend centric stock approach. You are treated like all of the other sheep loaded into the mutual fund pen. Second, I believe Vanguard is essentially throwing in the towel (they’d never admit it) about their index funds and the problem with how big they’ve become. Offering a robo-only service will be a backdoor way for Vanguard to steer investor … [Read more...]
Kick-Start Your Weekend with Boston’s: Don’t Look Back
Do you remember your first record album? Boston’s Don’t Look Back was mine. A Christmas gift from my Aunt Susan (thanks to the help of cousins Karen and Kim). You want to listen to Don’t Look Back with headphones so you can crank it up loud. How loud? Imagine sitting on your bedroom floor with big ‘ole headphones cranked up so loud you have no idea that your friend is breathing over you, and he scares the crap out of you when you turn around, like my friend Matt would do—that loud. The opening guitar lick is unmistakable with the often forgotten, and certainly underappreciated … [Read more...]
The Fed is Clueless
Don’t be head-faked by the Federal Reserve’s 25bps cut in the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) this week. Because the real story is in Repo where demand for Treasuries has been through the roof. If you look at my chart on the 10-year Treasury you can see this problem began not in 2019 but at the end of May 2018. Most investors, including the Fed, don’t understand bonds. The bond market, like stocks, is ruled by supply and demand just like real estate, for example. Something is going on with the plumbing of the global monetary system that the Fed is clueless about. For more read this … [Read more...]
The Rich and Famous: How to Invest Like Jay Leno
If you want to see Jay Leno’s home in Newport, RI all you have to do is leave my office, turn on to Bellevue Avenue and head out to Ocean Drive, and you’ll see it right there on the water. “Leno and his wife first admired the house around 30 years ago, when he was in Rhode Island for a standup gig,” explains Fred Albert in Newport Life. “In 2017, the couple drove by it again — only this time, they stopped. ‘Let’s see if it’s for sale,’ Leno said, taking advantage of a departing gardener to slip through the open gate and drive up to the front door, where a caretaker greeted him.” Albert … [Read more...]
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