The pandemic has hit retailers particularly hard, and this is a sector that was already in considerable distress. Macy’s seems to be doing their best to survive, but don’t get too excited. Before we decided not to allow retail stores to remain open due to fears of the COVID-19 pandemic, the retail sector was already […]

We’ve always had media censorship, but we always could rely on social media to show us what we haven’t been allowed to see elsewhere. Times are really changing. Censorship has always been a big issue with popular media, but social media brought about a revolution where we could now see all the sorts of views […]

Hertz has been renting cars for over a century and started out with a dozen Model T’s in 1918. They have flourished through a lot of crises, but were no match for an economic shutdown. Hertz has had a dominant position in the rent-a-car business for a century, from the time they started out with […]

Eight times a year, the U.S. Federal Reserve provides a summary of the economy around the country, called the Beige Book. Their latest observations are now in. The Fed is best known for its open market committee meetings throughout the year, and they also make the news from time to time when they make significant […]

Economist David Rosenberg might be the king of the bears, predicting recessions and bear markets year after year without fail. He is painting a very grim picture now. Earlier this year, before all of this current crisis emerged, we ran an article on the bearish views of economist David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, a new […]

Liquid-alt funds are designed to be more market neutral than normal funds, promising more protection against bear markets. How well have they done during this last one? While many people think of the difference between mutual funds and exchange traded funds, or ETFs, is that you can buy and sell shares of ETFs yourself on […]

Just like losing teams tell us they will get them next year, losing investment strategies always say that their advantage will come next year. Wishing this so is never enough. You really have to wonder what has continued to inspire people to keep investing in all those actively managed investment funds year after year in […]

While the country turned their heads from the massive economic damage that the coronavirus quarantine has been causing, we won’t be able to look away forever. Before this year, if you asked anyone what the threshold would need to be in order to shut down most of the country like we have done lately, it […]

Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s enthusiasm for raising taxes may court favor with a lot of the electorate, but it’s only because few people know the real consequences of this. With all the things that we teach kids in school, there definitely needs to be more focus on economics. We’re not talking about teaching them all […]

The price of oil simply wilted under the heat of the coronavirus lockdown. As things inch more and more towards normal, oil is rising as fast as it fell, and there’s lots more room to grow. It was only a month ago that the price of oil touched minus $40 a barrel, during a mad […]