The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or Flying Blind

During the 1980s, I ran Morgan Stanley’s equity trading desk in London. Every summer, I used to park my family at my villa in the mountains above Cannes in the South of France with a spectacular view of the Mediterranean. On weekends, I would fly down to Cannes in my twin-engine Cessna 340 with the […]

WATTS THE HOLDUP?

(DUK), (NVDA), (PWR), (AMZN), (POWL), (EME), (ETN), (URI) Seven years. That’s how long it takes to connect a new data center to the U.S. power grid right now. Not the glossy brochure timeline. Not the consultant’s PowerPoint fantasy. Seven actual years from application to flipping the switch.  I learned this sitting in a Duke Energy […]

October 1 Biweekly Strategy Webinar Q&A

Below, please find subscribers’ Q&A for the October 1 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Incline Village, NV. Q: What effect will the government shutdown have on the stock market? A: The answer so far is nothing—absolutely nothing. It appears the President’s strategy is to cut spending only in Democratic states. New […]