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Intel’s DJIA Exit Mocks Silly Notion Abt. Fed Boosting Stocks

Promoting his new book over the summer, economist Ruchir Sharma managed to get one of its main themes splashed all over the media: “When the price of borrowing money is zero, the price of everything else goes bonkers.” Ruchir was talking about the stock market, and promoting the falsehood that when the Fed makes […]

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Hindsight Is Not Discovery’s Coefficient

“Why can’t you pulverize the market just by buying the stocks with the highest share prices?” The previous question was asked by Jason Zweig, author of the rather excellent “Intelligent Investor” column in the Wall Street Journal. Would it that staffers within the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust department were regular readers of Zweig. In particular his

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The Cure For Visa’s Market Dominance Is Visa’s Market Dominance

“We don’t take American Express.” Those five words kept coming to mind last week while reading about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case again Visa. To which some will reply that the DOJ’s lawsuit isn’t about competition in the credit card space, rather it’s about Visa’s alleged abuse of its supposedly “dominant” position in the

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If Paul Pelosi Is Why Visa Angers You, You’re Missing the Point

It was reported last week that Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy, recently sold a sizable amount of Visa stock. Actually, it wasn’t that recent. July 1st to be exact. But since Pelosi’s sale preceded the September 24th announcement of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case against Visa, it got people

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