Market Mindset

March Madness is here. They should probably change the name this year. I think we’ve had our fill of Market Madness this March. But UNC and Duke are coming to town, and the Bon Secours Wellness Arena should be bumping with trumpets blasting fight songs this weekend. Perhaps it can take our minds off the spectacle of current events in the Middle East and the resulting drama playing out on the S&P 500…

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Now ascending the Iranian “throne” is Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Same beard, not quite as long as Daddy’s and with a dash of pepper in there that Daddy must have lost decades ago. According to the New York Post, the younger Khamanei is lacking aspects his father had and yesterday posted on Facebook that he had “the charisma of a boiled potato.”…

Projecting out a successful retirement and trying to account for all the ghouls around the corner such as inflation and unforeseen family emergencies is hard enough as it is to get right. So, when the stock market turns against you and threatens to upend all those plans, it can feel like a malevolent entity that is out to get you…

In the last few weeks I’ve made it a habit of testing AI, specifically through Alexa and Grok, to see how adaptable to humans it’s becoming. After racing my son and losing badly many times during an interval workout this past weekend (Martins saw this unfold), my legs were terribly sore when I awoke on Monday. Having been subjected to much gloating and teasing from my son the day before, I needed a big-time ego boost. So, as I rolled very slowly out of bed, I asked Alexa…

I’m a pretty simple guy who likes cheeseburgers, watching a good show on Netflix with my wife and playing with the kids at the lake. So, when I write, I really despise big words that are mostly said in my opinion for the sake of sounding smart. After hearing this particular cringeworthy word for weeks, I’ve hunted the thesaurus, but unfortunately there is no proxy for “disintermediation”…

Other than some crashing metal prices last week, there’s just not a lot of exciting things to discuss in the market. You want to hear about the unemployment rate? It just went down 0.1%. The stock market yawned and so did I. So this week I’d like to address some more 30,000 foot issues like …Life, huh? What a high-wire act! So much to remember every single day….

It’s the one night of the year that men securely control the remote control. (Do we have to give it back this time?) For one glorious evening – for reasons completely unknown to us simple men – our wives, girlfriends and significant others agree that watching a football game IS the path to happiness. We’ve been treated to watch up to 59 Super Bowls, depending on your age, with Super Bowl 60 between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks set to kick off Sunday evening…

Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man who … predicts the rain,
I’ve been around to shed many a tear
As the Sky did … an about-face.

I was round in ‘88 year
When there dropped a foot … of snow and pain,
Made darn sure I used a big wide range
So you listeners … won’t seal my fate.

Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guess my name …

One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them …
Here I am talking about a ring again. For regular readers of The Market Mindset, the ring I referenced before Christmas was found and yes, Santa did have to crawl under the house to slice into an air duct to claim the Precious….

Brace yourselves because Dr. Doom is back!! Despite all my past write-ups that bring up movies, I promise I’m not talking about Victor von Doom of the Fantastic Four. I am referring to Nouriel Roubini, the economist that foresaw and predicted the subprime mortgage crisis, thereby earning the most foreboding, dark title of “Dr. Doom.” That has to be pretty cool on a business card, right?….