1. Dexamethasone Delirium

    Tweeting Trouble

    Trump is trying to row back his threat to abandon talks on stimulus measures with the Dem-controlled Congress. Markets went up. As always.

    Kamala Harris & Mike Pence had a dull debate. The polls seem to think that Trump is doomed. I wouldn’t write off the brute yet …

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  2. K-shaped recovery

    K-shaped?

    When the Covid recession started, people started wondering what the recovery would look like. The recovery from the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 was horribly drawn out, and in fact GDP took longer to recover than it did in the Great Depression of the 1930s. How Bernanke, Yellen & Co …

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  3. King Kuppy, and the plight of the common man.

    Kuppy and the Incredible Hulks

    Kuppy has been keen on tankers for a long time.

    Wrap

    Another strong risk-on day. Trump leaves hospital, Pelosi talks about stimulus packages, the trade deal is on (again?), CL1 jumps 6.2%. All agricultural commodities green, with the exception of corn, which is flat …

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  4. Trump neither better nor worse

    Published: Sun 04 October 2020
    Updated: Tue 22 November 2022
    By steve

    In markets.

    tags: journal

    Covid and Trump and the US Presidential Election

    The news has been totally dominated by these events. Real market forces seem not to matter.

    I listened to Kuppy on The Market Huddle. He was waxing lyrical about $JOE (St. Joe Company). This is a small cap stock that has done …

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  5. Trump gets Covid

    Published: Fri 02 October 2020
    Updated: Tue 22 November 2022
    By steve

    In markets.

    tags: journal

    Another Covid story

    Given that the media have been obsessed with the presidential election, and with covid, it’s not surprising that a story which combines the two is popular.

    Wrap

    Equities: generally down, except Mexico & the UK. It’s not often that those two markets move together against the …

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  6. Last Day of Sept 2020

    Utilities need EVs to make their business model work

    This article explains why without all that spare capacity running (mainly) overnight to charge battery electric vehicles (BEVs), electric utilites are going to really struggle. The article is about California, but it seems to me that where California is now, the …

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