How are you? Are you thinking about where we are in life right now? Wondering if it will ever go back to “normal?” I know I am. It can get pretty upsetting thinking of how easily they take things away. As if they know what’s best for you and me. They don’t. In thinking about […]
Investing
Naples, Florida Is the No. 1 Beach Town To Live In
Travel + Leisure has named Naples, Florida the “No. 1 U.S. beach town to live in.” One of our family’s investment counsel firm offices is in Naples, FL. (The other is in Newport, RI.) The Naples Daily News reports on the designation, writing: Travel + Leisure recently wrote that the Southwest Florida city is the No. 1 U.S. […]
Stocks: S&P 500 Hit 25 Records this Year
You may have noticed the food and beverage industry needs workers. Like, right now. You can expand that out to most businesses in the service industry. Your Survival Guy will place the blame on big government unemployment checks and on the lockdowns freaking people out. Case in point, we escaped to the city this weekend […]
Lumber Prices Are Soaring, Should the Fed Be Afraid?
Lumber prices are breaking records. First position Spruce-Pine-Fir futures are trading at over $1500/metric ton. Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the spike in lumber prices is that builders have been able to pass them on to customers. The Fed should be very worried about the rapid rise in prices going directly to consumers. The […]
Sell in May?/911 Emergencies/Fidelity #1/Cryptos/Stocks
Who’s got your back in the world of finance when the going gets tough? And some other thoughts. When Georgia changed its voting laws, and over 100 CEOs and business leaders signed a letter in protest, did they even read the law? File this under my “You Invest, They Win.” Are you surprised to see […]
Strong GDP Set to Accelerate in the Second Quarter
First-quarter GDP estimates came in at a robust 6.4%, with growth likely to accelerate to more than 8% next quarter. Over the coming weeks, economic activity in the U.S. will surpass its pre-pandemic high. With the Fed pumping over a trillion dollars of liquidity into financial markets annually and the Six Trillion Dollar Man (Joe […]
Pandemic Spending Pushes Amazon Profits to Record
The pandemic created a perfect storm for Amazon. With more people shopping, and more people working from home using cloud services, Amazon’s profits have soared. Sebastian Herrera reports for The Wall Street Journal (abridged): Amazon. AMZN 0.37% com Inc. reported record quarterly profit as demand remained robust for its deliveries, cloud-computing and advertising businesses, capping […]
Junk Bond King Predicted This About Real Estate
The rise and fall of junk bond king Michael Milken was well documented in the book, Den of Thieves. Years later, I remember him saying in an interview that the next “big thing” would be the securitization of residential real estate. In other words, you could look up the price of your neighbor’s house and […]
Thanks to the Pandemic by 2025, America’s Biggest Retailer May Be Online
According to a report by Edge by Ascential, which claims to deliver “one of the industry’s most accurate and actionable sales-driving data, insights and advisory solution sets,” by 2025, Amazon.com will outpace Walmart in retail sales. Bloomberg‘s Spencer Soper reports: Amazon.com Inc. will supplant Walmart Inc. as the biggest U.S. retailer by 2025, according to […]
Apple Increases Its Dividend by 7% on Record High Profits
Apple Inc. raised its dividend by 7% today to 22 cents a share and increased an existing share repurchase program after results showed record-high profits. Tim Higgins reports in The Wall Street Journal: Apple Inc. AAPL -0.60% signaled that the historic rise in sales it has achieved during the pandemic is set to continue, addressing […]
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