Category Archives: Quotes

QOTD: Adaptive Expectations

Posted on May 28, 2022 by macromon

QOTD = Quote of the Day There’s a tendency for markets to focus on the present and extrapolate it forever – Olivier Blanchard

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Why The Stock Bull Is A Big Meh For Most Americans

Posted on December 5, 2019 by macromon

Interesting piece by the FT today that only one-third of Americans feel the benefits of the great bull market.   Only 40 percent of the population realizes stocks are up for the year.  These are tough numbers for a so-called “populist” … Continue reading →

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WWLT: What Would Lincoln Tweet?

Posted on July 25, 2019 by macromon

Maybe

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Greenspan Cribbed “Irrational Exuberance” From Robert Shiller

Posted on January 12, 2019 by macromon

Just cleaning up some old posts and thought you would find this one interesting. I have always been a big fan of the Yale prof, Robert Shiller, even before his Nobel Prize.  During my Wall Street days, a Yale professor … Continue reading →

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It Could Never Happen Here…But It Is

Posted on November 4, 2018 by macromon

Fareed nails it this morning.   Wake up, AmeriKA! If the country doesn’t repudiate this on Tuesday, the country and the world goes much darker and is in deep, deep doo-doo. Soros is the perfect bogeyman for conspiracy theorists. He is … Continue reading →

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Tweet of the Day: Dancing on Dmitry’s Grave

Posted on July 7, 2018 by macromon

Ouch! That must have hurt. Remember the war between Honduras and El Salvador that, in part, started over a World Cup qualifier?   The “Football War” or “100 Hour War.” Feel bad for Russian player, Mario Fernandes,  who missed the … Continue reading →

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QOTD: Shirley On Santa

Posted on December 23, 2017 by macromon

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”  ~Shirley Temple

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México Fuerte!

Posted on September 19, 2017 by macromon

We are with you our brothers and sisters down in OH MEXICO!  Godspeed. Viva Mexico!     Wow!  So many natural disasters this month it’s starting to get downright biblical! Then there is the weakening of the nation-state as we … Continue reading →

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QOTD: The Maverick

Posted on September 1, 2017 by macromon

Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American “blood and soil” ideology. There is nothing in their hate-driven racism that can match the strength of a nation conceived in liberty and comprising … Continue reading →

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Build More Statues Of These Heroes

Posted on August 18, 2017 by macromon

“They won.  Helped save the United States.  I like winners”.    Who could have said that? I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles … Continue reading →

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