Recent stock market action has been notable for its lack of volatility. Moreover, the selloffs that have occurred were quickly met with buying as a “buy the dips” mentality has come to dominate stock markets. The most recent example of this was in mid-May when...
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Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president were marked by a deluge of analysis over what he had accomplished in his young administration. Media and political pundits were as divided on this assessment as they were over his candidacy, with conservative supporters viewing the glass...
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Americans woke up to a whole new reality on November 9th when Donald Trump’s sweeping presidential victory defied all polls, pundits and political odds. At the beginning of the GOP campaign, Trump was mocked, shunned and given up for lost in the early stages of...
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Americans have been swimming in a pool of negativity for all of 2016. It’s not hard to understand why. The overarching event of the year has been the presidential election, which will be over by the time you read this, and hopefully will result in...
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In the days when Britannia ruled some 25% of the world’s land, it did so because it also ruled the oceans. Both in military and commercial respects, Britain’s sea power was unmatched for over one hundred years. But the long reach of maritime power involved...
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The movie “Black Hawk Down” recounts the 1993 U.S. special forces mission into Somalia whose goal was to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. Using Black Hawk helicopters to lower the soldiers onto the ground, an unexpected attack...
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It is a moment of great soul searching in modern day finance, as the standards upon which the Wall Street edifice has been built for the last six decades are being manipulated into a form that we thought could never exist. Specifically, central banks around...
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