Category: Market Commentary

TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT: Winners, Losers, and Investment Strategies

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is a 500+ page piece of legislation passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law on Friday, December 22, 2017, with most of its provisions affecting taxes in 2018 …

Volvo All Electric? Not The Only Presage For The Oil Industry…

Volvo Group recently announced its strategy to produce nothing but hybrid and all-electric vehicles within two years (Volvo All Electric or Hybrid), becoming the first major automaker to eschew the internal combustion engine.  While this development might not …

The Privileged Population of Technology & the Downturn of Manufacturing: What it Means for P2P Lending

Many new investable asset classes have emerged in the FinTech revolution, the most prominent of which might be peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, which allows retail investors to lend money directly to other individuals.  The yields are very attractive, ranging …

The Irony of Amazon

Amazon.com may well be the most innovative, best-run company on the planet.  Their ability to anticipate technology and execute a strategic vision evokes the Jobs-era lineage of Apple: the first online bookstore; the largest online retailer; an electronics …

Are we all just too giddy?

As Mohamed A. El-Erian writes in the article linked below, domestic debt and equity markets reacted quite dramatically to the Trump economic platform, with interest rates spiking across maturities and equity markets rallying in the two months following …