Mkt Strategist at
@rwbaird
and author of “Bull and Baird,” a mkt blog. All tweets are opinion, I do not produce research. Chicago MBA mantonelli
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You can't believe how unbelievably blessed our nation is because of this one thing.
You basically couldn't design a country geographically any better than what we ended up with.
I have a take I feel very passionately about:
Every homeowner needs a dumpster forced on them every 5 years.
Dropped off in front of their home for 48 hours.
So much stuff just has to go.
Let me get this straight:
Oil is under $70
Rates are plummeting (10 year 4.1%)
12 mo forward earnings are rising
Inflation is falling
Productivity is rising
Stocks are near ATH
And I’m supposed to be bearish?
If you’re using the phrase “not your keys not your coins” you’re basically telling normies to never get into the space. No one wants to learn how to do this.
If you work on Wall St, or in the investment world, and you can explain complex topics / terms in an easy to understand way, that’s an INSANELY valuable skill.
Delta Airlines is temporarily changing how people board; travelers whose seats are in the last row will board first, with the process continuing row-by-row to the front to minimize interactions. First and business class can board when they want, but are encouraged to wait.
So my son, who is 15, actually has to take a Personal Finance course in our local High School (how awesome is that).
Part of this class is a “stock picking” competition. You’ve probably done one, maybe your child has, but is this the right way to teach children about investing?
Text from my wife:
“The grocery store is 40% men who were sent here to shop. But they are calling their wives for clarification and/or just standing and staring at the shelves”
Absolutely 💀
Every one of you with your godawful Fed takes need to stop
No they aren’t curing the disease, No they aren’t trying to get the stock market to go up. No they aren’t “out of bullets”
They are making sure the financial system functions to get us thru this. That’s it.
There should be a Barstool Finance, I don't get why it hasnt been invented yet.
Irreverant, good content, no ties and suits, a finance show / blog for the next generation.
If you are still in the camp of "inflation is out of control and only going higher how can you explain:
1. 5yr breakeven rate peaking in March (3.5) and it now at 2.82
2. All the metals breaking down
3. Cmdty like Cotton breaking down
4. FF futs now pricing cuts in 2023
There's 72mm millennials the oldest of which is 41.
They've lived through 2 gigantic market events (GFC / COVID) while investing for the future.
Some of them have embraced virtual assets that drop 50% all the time.
Do we think they're scared of random selloffs anymore?
A baseball player gets sent to the minors or outright released if they bat .200. Economic forecasters can bat .050 and write op-eds in major newspapers for two decades.
Just please cancel this Davos thing. “After you’re done learning what it’s like to eat dirt and live on $1 a day, your black car will pick you up and whisk you to a party”
Sigh.
Well this went nuts.
Two thoughts: While you love to see gorgeous mountainous backdrops in the Olympics I’m not totally opposed to a kind of urban renewal / modern take on ski events.
Does this open up bigger urban venues to host Winter events?
Maybe, we’ll see!
/end
Thing people undervalue until its gone
1. Youth
2. Their own Privacy
3. Sleeping thru the night
4. Experiences with your children Age 10 and under
5. Being able to fall down and not be hurt for a month
What if…hear me out….the economy stays strong, earnings stay strong, inflation comes down as supply chains and oil ease, and we power on without bigger hikes…what if??
I think it was my man
@morganhousel
who said
There are only 3 edges in the market
You can be smarter than everyone else
You can be luckier than everyone else
You can be more patient than everyone else
What's your edge right here, right now?
24 Hours of life
No one told me that as a parent my life would go so fast. It seems like just yesterday that I had a newborn and started at job at Baird.
Why can’t I slow it down? What is happening to me? Do you feel the same way?
Read my latest:
There's just so much luck in investing, it's crazy.
Sitting here bored looking at 529 account balances. Son, born 2006, Daughter, born 2008.
We put an equal amount into each 529 at birth and my daughter is crushing my son.
Why? because she was born near the low, that's it.
$DIS now in a WORSE drawdown than *checks notes* when they closed the entire World down, put people in their homes, and mothballed their multibillion dollar parks and hotel business.
Don’t tell me this is just “taking out DIS+ growth expectations”
One of my best friends wanted to trade in a 2010 Audi Q7, like 125k miles on it, last year got a quote of $4k.
Traded it in for $7500 yesterday.
I mean have you ever heard of used car prices going UP
1. Crypto has basically imploded across the board
2. Growthy tech has gotten pummeled
3. FANG has been taken out to the woodshed (save AAPL)
4. Zero rates are in the history book.
5. We’re in a bear mkt
What’s left to unwind that was a product of too much liquidity /easy money?
@JamesClear
“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Imagine Vanguards pitch was “buy some index funds but in order to not lose them you need to upload a series of numbers to a jump drive or a piece of paper”. Just stop.
Im not going to invest in the stock market until
1. I have clarity on economic data
2. The government is exactly like I want it
3. There's no conflicts in the World
4. The market feels "safe"
5. The news is calm
6. I can better understand why the market is moving like it is.
Fintwit transition this year:
Equity Analyst
to
Virologist
to
Doctor
to
Statistician
to
Supply chain expert
To
Commodity Analyst
Can’t wait to see what’s next...