I believe in the concept of the Federal Reserve being independent. I don’t like the idea of Trump (or any president) trying to control it. At this particular time, I don’t think we need many, if any, interest rate reductions. A six to seven percent mortgage rate is a historical norm. You might consider that
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Richard Cantillon’s “Essay on the Nature of Trade in General” will resonate with you. He was one of the first guys to make a bunch of money in a bubble. Here’s what he said about the relationship between banks and government. Sound at all familiar? “It is then certain that a bank, in concert with
Harvard Business Review, May 2002. Interestingly enough, trying harder is a problem when the business environment changes because of the tendency to do more of the same thing you’ve always done. Typically, those things are not the right things to do anymore. As I’ve written, this corresponds to my own experience doing turnaround work. You
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Many years ago, I wrote a Market Watch column on branding. I opined that the importance of brands might be declining in the action sports world as products became reliable and similar. My friend and, at that time, editor Sean O’Brien at Transworld thought enough of it to immediate publish it online without telling me.
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That’s the title of a scroll through presentation by the Financial Times. It shows and discusses the growth, and projected growth, of data centers. Talks about the energy needs and cooling requirements (resulting in more energy needs) and some of the solutions big players are pursuing. Here’s the link. You probably thought, like I did,
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