According to a study that was released on Monday, illegal human trafficking of Central American migrants into the United States is an industry that could be worth billions of dollars. Human traffickers who smuggled migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America – Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador – netted an estimated $200 million to […] Read more
The earnings season is in full swing this week, and we have gotten reports from some key companies over the last few days with more to come. So far there has been a great divide in the results and reactions to the earnings reports. I expressed many times heading into this earnings season that I […] Read more
Healthcare sector stocks have been under tremendous selling pressure over the last few weeks, and there are questions as to why. Is it political with all the talk of “Medicare for all” and President Trump making statements about bringing down drug prices? Is it simply a matter of sector rotation? Could it be profit taking […] Read more
I don’t know about you, but I’ve tired of the ping-pong game of international trade, particularly between China and the U.S. If you read the news each day, it is like volleying a tennis ball back and forth, with no winner or end to the match in sight. Welcome to the world of international trade. […] Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote about the upcoming earnings season. That season started last week with Delta Airlines, JPMorgan, and Wells Fargo releasing results. In that article, I showed a table of different companies and the EPS estimates for this quarter compared to last year and the average growth for the last three years. In […] Read more
Just say no to the new Income Sharing Agreement (ISA). I could leave it at that and write no more. Through a new kind of financial instrument called an ISA, financiers are transforming student debtors into stock investments, with much of the same risk and, ideally, greater returns. But the millennials who are mortgaging their […] Read more
It was just a matter of time until the sludge of the incompetent do-gooders dripped back to their various states. You know who I’m talking about. Massachusetts, New York, California, Mexico. My bad, sovereign Mexico is not a state, yet, albeit their wandering citizens too may benefit from the nastier side of minimum wage rate […] Read more
The minutes from the most recent FOMC meeting were released on Wednesday, and it revealed mostly what we already knew. The Fed doesn’t see the need to raise or lower rates at this time. Even though investors pretty much knew this, the market rallied after the release. With investors seemingly more interested in the Fed […] Read more
What used to be an urban issue, traffic and poor roads, has now taken a grip on many smaller cities and communities across the nation, where a deteriorating infrastructure is beginning to hurt the bottom line of small and medium sized companies. People will continue to matriculate to where the jobs are located. It takes […] Read more
What a difference a month can make. The so called Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to strengthen infrastructure, trade, and investment links between China and some 65 other countries that account collectively for over 30 percent of global GDP, 62 percent of population, and 75 percent of known energy reserves. Italy became the first […] Read more
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