Neil Irwin of the New York Times has a nice column along the lines of “Stocks for the long run, come hell or high water.” Long story short: it’s a shout out to investors of a Democratic persuasion, on why not to sell stocks, no matter how negatively you view…
Keep in mind that although all right-thinking people might appear to agree with you, at best that’s 60 percent of the American electorate. There’s another 40% that doesn’t see the world the way you do. Plus, our 60% +/- of right-thinking folks is not evenly spread through the Electoral College;…
I know something about spin. I was a Marketing professor for thirty years. But I never had to spin professionally; I was an academic. So I don’t know anywhere near as much about spin as a Kellyanne Conway; and far less than a successful branding entrepreneur, such as Mr. Frump.…
Trump famously said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” And as the election results showed, he was right. None of his howlers or offenses kept him from winning. But now he takes office with slightly more than 50% of…
Soon Donald Frump will be President. Soon the Republican Party will control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. Cue the exultation and the schadenfreude. Soon the Republican juggernaut will roll, crushing all in its path, remaking the nation to a new vision. Wealthy businessmen, empowered as Cabinet Secretaries, will…
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. The media made Trump. There has been much gnashing of teeth among liberal commentators on this score. You’ve heard the charges. The media let themselves be used by Trump. He jerks them around with his midnight tweets. The media and…
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 Presidential election. That’s a fact. Why she lost is not a matter of fact but of interpretation. Maybe she screwed up. It’s comforting to attribute all life outcomes to individual choice and effort. She should have made more appearances in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. Shoulda, woulda,…
Donald Frump began his campaign inveighing against Mexicans, promising to build a wall, and threatening to abrogate the North American Free Trade Agreement, in place now for some twenty years. Punitive tariffs have been threatened on Mexican exports. Nothing hidden or covert there! After Frump won, the Mexican stock market…
I had a sleepless night November 8th. I went to bed after 12:00 California time, knowing all was lost to Trump, and writhing the more, knowing that markets had plunged across the globe. Too late! No way to get out. No way to preserve my little wealth before the tsunami…
From one perspective, everything that could go wrong in the 2016 election, did go wrong. So let’s play out that string. It appears that Jill Stein will be able to get a recount of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. What’s the worst outcome imaginable? A Republican registrar in Wisconsin didn’t bother…