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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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The Robin Report - The Future of Beyond and Meatless - David Merrefield

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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The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class: A Retail Cancer

Is the retail industry, and for that matter, all consumer-facing industries in denial? Actually I think they have not yet detected the real cancer, soon ...
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The Robin Report - Richard Baker, Eddie Lampert

Richard Baker is my Name – Real Estate is my Game

What does Eddie \”fast buck\” Lampert have to do with this? Before I get to the significance of the title of this article and HBC\’s ...
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The Terror of Tariffs: Retailers See It Very Differently Than The Trump Administration

They say there are two sides to every story and no doubt the situation with tariffs that is threatening trade between China and the United ...
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