If you like classic rock, then you need to check out Greta Van Fleet. My new favorite classic rock band from Frankenmuth, Michigan consists of 21-year old twins Jake (guitarist) and Josh (lead vocals) Kiszka, their 18-year old brother Sam (bass) and drummer Danny Wagner, age 18. Thank you, Neil Shah at the WSJ, for clueing me in to GVF. Their tour, which begins November 30th, in Chicago, is sold out. I’ve been playing “Black Smoke Rising” non-stop and if you want to hear a voice that rivals Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant's, listen to “Highway Tune.” Black Smoke Rising Highway Tune … [Read more...]
November RAGE Gauge Tells Me Investors are Too Comfortable
My goal for you with my monthly RAGE Gauge is to provide you with a quick reading of how risk is being perceived right now—how risk is being interpreted. In my line of work, there is never enough attention given to downside protection—keeping what you have—too much energy is wasted thinking about keeping up with the other guy. In that world, the grass is always greener because of: How much “they” have, where their kids go to school, what they do for a living, and where they live. “They,” take up an enormous amount of energy. A more efficient use of energy focuses on what you do to … [Read more...]
Army to No Longer Require Grenade Throwing Skills
Originally posted on Febuary 15, 2018. Really? This from the Daily Mail: The United States Army will no longer require recruits to show they can throw hand grenades 25 meters because many of them can’t throw the explosive far enough, it revealed on Friday. The Army says that starting next summer it will remove the requirement from its Basic Combat Training because it takes too much time to teach enlistees to throw grenades at an adequate distance. The new policy was reported by Military.com. ‘What we have found is it is taking far, far too much time,’ said Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, … [Read more...]
Mad Dogs & Englishmen: Cry Me A River
“I loved Keltner EJ,” read an email from a friend of mine—a Jim Keltner fan who appreciates the work the drummer has done behind the kit and, to a large degree, behind the scenes. Keltner’s double drumming with Jim Gordon on Mad Dogs and Englishmen was, as he points out, “one of my favorites. But his career went so much further. With not a lot of recognition unfortunately. Thanks for putting that out there!” Here’s Keltner and Jim Gordon on Mad Dogs & Englishman: Cry Me A River … [Read more...]
The Truth Behind the S&P 500: Part IV
This is the time of year when you need to be extra careful about what you invest in, especially when you’re buying a so-called passive index fund that tracks the S&P 500. I have many concerns about the S&P 500 index approach, as I point out here, here, and here. Add one more issue to the list: “Passive” investors paying for someone else’s actions. Recently, the PNC S&P 500 Index Fund announced it will pay out $4.19 in cap gains per share, as pointed out in by Jason Zweig in his weekly WSJ column The Intelligent Investor. “This week, the fund’s per-share value was around … [Read more...]
Remembering the Traveling Wilburys
This weekend I received a text asking who the drummer was for the Traveling Wilburys. That would be Jim Keltner, keeping the beat for George Harrison (RIP), Tom Petty (RIP), Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison (RIP), and Bob Dylan. … [Read more...]
You’ve Read the Last Issue of Intelligence Report: Back to Investors Yield: Part II
“Well I remember the mood of euphoria that gripped the stock market back in the holiday season of year-end 1965,” writes Dick Young in his September 1987 issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report. “I had just entered the investment business and was a broker at a Boston based member firm of the New Your Stock Exchange. It was an exciting period. The market had climbed by nearly 50% in a three-year period end 1965, and investors were spending their profits literally before they were booked. It was a period of casino mentality—no one could lose. The party ended with a thud, and the … [Read more...]
Veterans: Never Forgotten
Dear Veterans, Thank you for your service to our country. You will always be remembered and honored. Never forgotten. Respectfully, E.J. … [Read more...]
You’ve Read the Last Issue of Intelligence Report: Back to Investors Yield
“Well I remember the mood of euphoria that gripped the stock market back in the holiday season of year-end 1965,” writes Dick Young in his September 1987 issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report. “I had just entered the investment business and was a broker at a Boston based member firm of the New Your Stock Exchange. It was an exciting period. The market had climbed by nearly 50% in a three-year period end 1965, and investors were spending their profits literally before they were booked. It was a period of casino mentality—no one could lose. The party ended with a thud, and the … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know about Food Storage and Data-Analytics: Think Amazon’d
As Hurricane Frances was barreling across the Caribbean threatening a direct hit on Florida’s Atlantic coast in 2004, “Residents made for higher ground, but far away, in Bentonville, Ark., executives at Wal-Mart Stores decided that the situation offered a great opportunity for one of their newest data-driven weapons…predictive technology,” reported the New York Times. “A week ahead of the storm’s landfall, Linda M. Dillmans, Wal-Mart’s chief information officer, pressed her staff to come up with forecasts based on what had happened when Hurricane Charley struck several weeks earlier. Backed … [Read more...]
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