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Finance
At What Cost?
Our Covid-19 response — like virtually all policy — is being shaped by people who are leading protected lives. They personally have little at stake ...
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What Retailers Really Need Now
Besides online sales, what retailers need most right now is rent relief, in any size, shape or form! Many of them may need rent abatement ...
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Reflections of a Trade War Correspondent
In the words of New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman, \”At this point I\’ve lost count of how many times markets have rallied in the ...
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My Optimistic 2020 Playbook…with Caveats
Heading into the home stretch of the 2019 Holiday season it looks like a bipolar mix of optimistic mania on one extreme and relative ho-hum ...
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Here’s What Recent Store Closures Have in Common
This isn\’t another article prattling on about the so-called \”retail apocalypse.\” Instead, we are going to take a look at what the retailers that are ...
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The Economy: Drums of Uncertainty Beat Louder and Closer
Just a year ago I wrote that Q2 2018 was a wonderful quarter with GDP jumping 4.3 percent. However, I suggested that the hyperbole coming ...
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Ulta is a “Buy and Hold”
Wall Street continually sets itself up as a \”short-termer,\” a piñata stuffed full of a bunch of day-traders that I can\’t whack at hard enough ...
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Wall Street Quandary: Investing in New Food
Why have investors gone nuts for Beyond Meat, the maker of a vegetable-based meat alternative? And \”nuts\” is an apt term. Beyond had its IPO ...
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