Category Archives: Apple

The Week in Review: Waiting for Godot

Posted on January 15, 2011 by macromon

This market just won’t quit!  The S&P500 hasn’t had a one percent correction since November 23rd and those waiting for a better entry just keep waiting and waiting and waiting.  France’s CAC was the best weekly performer of the major … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear thinking: Going Gaga Over Transformative Tech

Posted on January 10, 2011 by macromon

One of the great problems of asset bubbles is not only the creation of too much capacity, but the misallocation of resources.   Our good friend and market guru extraordinaire, Barry Ritholtz, wrote of one such case back in 2005,  during … Continue reading →

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The [First] Week in Review: A Capital Flows Sandwich?

Posted on January 7, 2011 by macromon

Not a bad start to the year if you were in the right space.  A Frenchman with a long position in “Apple the Sovereign” was up over 8 percent in Euros.   Note, Apple rose another $2.00 to $338 after Friday’s … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Thinking: The Coming iApp Economic Revolution

Posted on January 6, 2011 by macromon

2011 – The Year of the App This is freaking amazing!  It’s our sense that in five years Apple may well have reinvented itself into a mobile medical company, where an iPhone/iPad-type device becomes a medical clinic in, say,  a … Continue reading →

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Apple the Sovereign (Patch)

Posted on January 4, 2011 by macromon

We knew we should have added in our Apple the Sovereign post that market cap and cash and investments are stock variables and the GDP data are flow variables,  similar to the variables of balance sheets and those of income … Continue reading →

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Apple the Sovereign

Posted on January 4, 2011 by macromon

Apple traded at $333 in the pre-market this morning as it continues the march to overtake Exxon as the country’s largest company in terms of market capitalization.   We thought we’d share a little perspective. If Apple’s market cap were a … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Thinking: Synthetic Palladium

Posted on January 3, 2011 by macromon

Linear thinking dominates economics and finance and was one of root causes of the recent financial crisis.  It is clear to us, the economy and financial markets are nonlinear systems.  In hindsight,  the collapse of the financial system showed risk … Continue reading →

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