Yearly Archives: 2022

Nonfarm Payrolls Report – Digging Deeper

#CKStrong We’re providing a deeper dive into Friday’s payrolls report with the Top 50 industries with the fastest and slowest payroll growth.  It’s still difficult to discern any new trends or secular shifts in the makeup of the payroll data. … Continue reading

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QOTD: The Graffiti Of Politics

#CKStrong QOTD = Quote of the Day Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet, CBE (25 June 1875 – 17 January 1954) was a British publisher, writer and political publicist. His father, John Benn, was a politician, who had been made a baronet … Continue reading

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Markets Sometimes Do The Work That Armies Can’t

#CKStrong The instant immiseration of a big economy [by sanctions] is unprecedented and will cause alarm around the world, not least in China, which will recalculate the costs of a war over Taiwan. The West’s priority must be to win … Continue reading

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How many Americans don’t believe the world is round?

#CKStrong Good Gawd! Social media is turning us into a nation of ignorant dumbasses.  Lies travel 6x faster than the truth on Twitter – MIT

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European Royalty: A Family Affair

#CKStrong “All kingdoms are monarchies but not all monarchies are kingdoms.” Queen Elizabeth’s husband [late husband] Prince Philip [was] related to the Romanovs through both his mother and his father. Philip is the grandnephew of Alexandra Romanov, Nicholas II’s wife, … Continue reading

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Don’t Chase Happiness, Become Antifragile

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The Super Plant Of The Future | DW

#CKStrong The Graduate The Times They Are A Changin

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QOTD: Inflation = The Hangover From What We Love

#CKStrong QOTD = Quote of the Day William Edward Simon was an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury. He became the Secretary of the Treasury on May 9, 1974, during the Nixon … Continue reading

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THE Chart To Watch

#CKStrong Tesla (TSLA), the poster child of the latest leg of the bull market, which began in March 2020, is again testing what has been its unpenetrable support at the 200-day moving average. The stock has to hold here. Maybe, … Continue reading

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Inflation: The Road Ahead For The Rest Of 2022

#CKStrong A reasonably informative video below, especially regarding inflation. Not much mention of the growth of money driving excess demand, however. M2 (thanks to the great Ed Yardeni for the charts) is still growing over 10 percent, in the U.S. … Continue reading

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