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Global Risk Monitor – March 8

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Meet The Mets

Today In 1963: "Meet the Mets", the official song of the New York #Mets is introduced to the public for the first time! #MLB #History pic.twitter.com/2oay60ysr3 — Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) March 9, 2019

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Ten Plus Great Weekend Reads – March 8

  Chinese stocks tumble as ECB and China data spark concerns – FT Why bulls on Wall Street are becoming an endangered species – FT Here’s why recent stock gains could be just a bear-market rally – MarketWatch Man credited … Continue reading

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On This Day In History – March 8

Birthdays 1702 Anne Bonny, Irish pirate (date of birth is approximate), born in Kinsale, Ireland (d. 1782) 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1935) 1936 Gabor Szabo (any relation to the great Wall Streeter, Andy … Continue reading

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Jeremy Grantham: “This one [bubble]… a decline of a different nature”

Great and super fascinating interview with investing legend, Jeremy Grantham, one of the best bubble spotters out there. “I arrived in 1964, and America was a fairly equal place with fairly rapid mobility between socioeconomic classes,” Grantham told CNBC’s Wilfred … Continue reading

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Grab Your Popcorn – Chair Powell On 60 Minutes

See press release here

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We Have Lift Off! (in the $)

  Can’t believe that was fiddy years past.  Going to see the new Apollo 11 flick on Saturday with my 15-year old daughter, who wants to be an astrophysicist. Back to biz… The Dixie – “To the Moon, Alice” Another … Continue reading

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QOTD: Artificial Intelligentsia

QOTD = Quote of the Day Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere [A.I.] will become the ruler of the world – Vladimir Putin 

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On This Day In History – March 7

Birthdays 148 Lucilla, Rome, Roman noblewoman (daughter of Marcus Aurelius and sister of Commodus) (between 148-150 AD), born in Rome 1849 Luther Burbank, American horticulturist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts (d. 1926) Events … Continue reading

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QOTD: Baseball Inflation Or Relative Price Increase?

QOTD = Quote of the Day “No one will ever be paid more than Ruth” – Ed Barrow, NY Yankee GM after signing the Babe to a 2-year $160K contract ($2.4 million in 2019 dollars),  circa March 1930  

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