Market Update May 7 2025: Tariffs and Economic Shifts | The Fearless Investor
Market Update May 7 2025: Tariffs and Economic Shifts | The Fearless Investor
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Cognitive Economics (how things work) | Investing | Investing Your Money in Business | Political Impact on Business | Smarter Business
Fed Rate and Bank Reserve Change, Might be Smart
First, as long as lending requirements remain the same, every loan will be closed with a cash deposit, which alleviates some of the problem of making more cash available through Fed Funds.
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Cognitive Economics (how things work) | Investing | Investing Your Money in Business | Smarter Business
Investing Power – Teams that Crank!
Real investing has moved away from Wall Street and into a new segment of America made of teams, people who connect business ideas through internet platforms, meet-ups, and group funding
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Appease Your Way to the Top
If the title of this didn’t make you cringe, you may be a wimp. As far as I can tell by searching the web, nobody has written a book with this title. There are plenty of accounts of people who tried appeasement diplomacy but nothing regarding appeasement as a way to do well in…
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Cognitive Economics (how things work) | Political Impact on Business | Smarter Business | Uncategorized
Good Politics are Most Important to Business Owners
Business and practice owners need to consider the most important thing for the continuing development of their business. Customer service, sales and marketing, product and service development, and productivity are all a constant but their effectiveness is not. In the wrong political environment these constants are negatively impacted by slow growth, reduced number of customers…
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“Dr. Doom’s” Economic Storm, with Silver Lining
Nouriel Roubini, who has been nicknamed “Dr. Doom”, is known for predictions of impending disaster in the economy of the world. What he and others may not tell you is this is all part of a long-term cycle and it is normal for economies to reset and rebuild. Economic “Doom” isn’t all the fear it’s…
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How to Grow Business in 2012
1. Ignore 2011 and the previous slow years and focus on the positives for 2012 2. Embrace Online Marketing and Sales as the future. It amazes me how few do this, even now. 3. Launch your business, or businesses now. 4. Use multiple platforms. 5. Broaden offerings and lines as well as services. 6. Expand…
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Roku – Best Gadget Today
Probably the best simple gadget to buy right now is the Roku. It’s great for streaming movies and more from multiple providers including Amazon, Hulu, Pandora, and Netflix. Can you say “Free Movies”? If you don’t want a BlueRay with built in streaming, or a new TV, or a game console, then this may be…
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Kindle Fire, for Business
What’s the number one reason to buy a Kindle Fire? The ability to carry your entire library of books, of any kind, with you anywhere you go. What’s the number one business reason to own and carry the Kindle Fire? The ability to give presentations in a coffee shop, at lunch, in a customer’s office,…
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“GAIN and CAPTURE!” market volume is downward
The slope of Volume on the markets has been down for some time now and I’ve mentioned it several times. Market Volume is simply the number of shares trading hands each trading day. Reduced volume over time is a key symptom of the markets during the Great Depression years. I’m not saying we are in…
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Impact of Greece is Inflated
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Greece is only 2% of the US GDP. Why does such an economically small country have enough impact on the US as to drive our stock markets down? Because, like so many things, the country is heavily leveraged, owing much to other countries. It should have no real impact, and…
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Cognitive Economics (how things work) | Political Impact on Business | Smarter Business | Uncategorized
The Fed vs Banks, Gold Grab DejaVu!
It’s the 1930’s gold grab all over again, maybe. Sure feels like it, looks like it, walks and talks like it. Today the Fed is suing banks over mortgage drivel. Drivel because the Fed helped cause it, and drivel because their only remaining point of first bailing them out and then suing them is to…