If It Looks Like A Bear Market And Acts Like A Bear Market…..
Staples exhibit sustained leadership in bear markets, not bulls – Steve Strazza, “A Bear Market Base”, The Strazza Letter, April 16, 2025 It’s hard to gain perspective on the market given the daily swings we’re experiencing. In order to do…
Rexford Industrial (REXR): An Industrial REIT For The Trump Era
While he’s making a mess of it, Trump’s ultimate objective with his tariffs is to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. One company that would benefit from that is $7 billion Rexford Industrial (REXR), an Industrial REIT that owns industrial…
Parsing Three Upcoming Earnings Reports For Economic Tells
In “The State of the Market After Wednesday’s Historic Face Ripper” (Wednesday April 9, Top Gun Financial), I argued that it was a mistake to view that day’s action as an “all clear” signal because the market had been struggling…
Poker In Reno: Memories Old And New
Yesterday morning I was playing Flight 1B of the $600 $150,000 Guarantee Mini-Main at the Peppermill. I can’t remember why but the conversation turned to each of our histories playing poker and dealing in Reno. I said that I had…
The State of the Market After Wednesday’s Historic Face Ripper
These kinds of monster rallies tend to show up during bear markets — when volatility is elevated and emotions are running high – Alfonso DePablos, “A Day For The History Books”, April 9 Wednesday’s historic rally can best be described…
Trump’s Colossal Blunder
[We’ll be] making a lot more stuff in America, high-tech manufacturing, security goods, autos, a lot more stuff across the industrial spectrum. If you create good jobs for people, they have an easier time forming a family, getting married, having…
The Theory and History Of Free Trade; Application To The Present
Not many people know that Adam Smith’s primary target in The Wealth of Nations was Mercantilism, the reigning economic theory of the time. He called his book “an attack on the whole commercial system of modern Europe”. Mercantilism was focused…
Shades Of 1929
Almost 100 years after the start of The Great Depression there is still a lot of debate about what caused it and why it lasted so long. But it’s almost certain that The Smoot-Hawley Tariffs and bad monetary policy played…
The Faith Of A Philosopher
Contemporary Philosophy must begin by staring into the abyss of Nihilism. Nihilism is the absence of meaning. As Shakespeare put: “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” It was Nietzsche who first…
The Meaning Of Life
To live is to feel oneself lost — he who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look round for something to which to cling, and that…