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Bitcoin Goes Parabolic

Bitcoin Goes Parabolic

Bitcoin goes Parabolic, we have seen this movie before, it never ends well…
Irma To Become A Major Hurricane Shortly, But Energy Markets Rightly Focus Elsewhere

Irma To Become A Major Hurricane Shortly, But Energy Markets Rightly Focus Elsewhere

The tropics certainly are active right now. Yesterday we had Tropical Storm Irma form, and now today it is already a hurricane. The storm is still forecast to take a rather unusual west-southwest track across the Atlantic, and this puts the United States at an elevated risk of landfall as it is less likely that […]
Emulating Endowments With ETFs

Emulating Endowments With ETFs

ETF.com posted an interview with Hossein Kazemi from Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association who did a study that concluded that small and medium sized endowments can effectively compete with the larger endowments by using ETFs to replicate the non-market based alternative strategies that funds like Harvard and Yale are known for and getting very similar return streams […]
Looming American Debt Ceiling Crisis

Looming American Debt Ceiling Crisis

The U.S. government is getting closer and closer to running out of cash… for real this time. The government has until the end of September to raise the U.S. debt ceiling – that is, the total amount the government is allowed to borrow. Otherwise, it won’t be able to pay its bills. The U.S. government […]
Novartis (NVS) CAR-T Therapy Kymriah Receives FDA Approval

Novartis (NVS) CAR-T Therapy Kymriah Receives FDA Approval

Novartis AG (NVS – Free Report) announced that the FDA has approved its breakthrough gene transfer treatment, Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) suspension for the treatment of patients up to 25 years of age with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that is refractory or in second or later relapse. Kymriah, formerly CTL019, is the first chimeric antigen receptor T cell […]
3 Canadian Licensed Producers Capitalizing On Cannabis Oil

3 Canadian Licensed Producers Capitalizing On Cannabis Oil

Cannabis oil is a significant revenue stream for licensed producers in Canada and this is a trend we expect to continue for the foreseeable future. Cannabis oil represents a fantastic opportunity and solution for licensed producers. The opportunity is great because not only does the product generate more revenue for the company but it also […]
The Big Four Economic Indicators: Real Personal Income In July

The Big Four Economic Indicators: Real Personal Income In July

Note: This commentary has been updated to include this morning’s release of the July data for Real Personal Income Less Transfer Receipts. Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This committee statementis about as close as they […]
Behold The Rulers

Behold The Rulers

These are stocks which basically seem to go up pretty much forever, irrespective of… anything. It makes me wonder why there’s an entire industry of financial professionals and advisors (to say nothing of financial bloggers like myself) when it seems everyone could just dump everything into securities like those shown below (click on any of […]
Proving Q2 GDP The Anomaly, Incomes Yet Again Fail To Accelerate

Proving Q2 GDP The Anomaly, Incomes Yet Again Fail To Accelerate

One day after reporting a slightly better number for Q2 GDP, the BEA reports today that there is little reason to suspect it was anything more or lasting. The data for Personal Income and Spending shows that the dominant condition since 2012 remains in effect – “good” quarters, or whatever passes for one these days, […]
Market Valuation Continues To Decline

Market Valuation Continues To Decline

We now calculate that 52.16% of the stocks to which we can assign a valuation are overvalued and 19.68% of those stocks are overvalued by 20% or more. These numbers have declined fairly significantly below what we saw when we published our last valuation study in June. At that time, we saw an overvaluation figure […]