June 18, 2020 Good morning. Juneteenth tomorrow, the first day of summer on Saturday, then Father’s Day hits. So much to celebrate over the next three days. MARKETS NASDAQ 9,910.53 + 0.15% S&P 3,113.49 – 0.36% DJIA 26,119.61 – 0.65% GOLD 1,736.00 – 0.03% 10-YR 0.734% – 2.30 bps OIL 37.70 – 1.77% *As of market close Markets: Pretty quiet day. The Dow and S&P took an L for the first time in three trading sessions. 2020: President Trump “pleaded” with […]

June 17, 2020 Read in Browser Good morning. Trying to think of a single thing that’s bad about the outrageous amount of daylight we have right now, and…drawing a blank. It’s simply magnificent at every level.  MARKETS NASDAQ 9,895.87 + 1.75% S&P 3,124.74 + 1.90% DJIA 26,289.98 + 2.04% GOLD 1,735.70 + 0.49% 10-YR 0.754% + 2.40 bps OIL 37.97 + 2.29% *As of market close Economy: It was a split-screen kind of day. Retail sales boomed a record 17.7% […]

1-Sentence-Summary: Becoming motivates you to move forward with your dreams regardless of your circumstances, criticism, or what people think is normal by sharing the life story of Michelle Obama. Favorite quote from the author: Michelle Obama hasn’t always been as successful and well-known as she is today. Long before she was a lawyer, working mom, and First Lady, she was Michelle Robinson. Growing up in the Chicago south side, her loves included learning, jazz music, and Stevie Wonder long before she met […]

June 16, 2020 Good morning. Been fiddling around with our Photoshop subscription…when you get to the Bezos story reply and let us know how we did. MARKETS NASDAQ 9,726.02 + 1.43% S&P 3,066.59 + 0.83% DJIA 25,763.16 + 0.62% GOLD 1,732.20 – 0.29% 10-YR 0.730% + 2.50 bps OIL 37.07 + 2.23% *As of market close Markets: The major indexes erased big losses earlier in the day to end up solidly in the green. Investors are trying to decide whether they […]

Disney is an undeniable entertainment heavyweight. Disney movies make billions of dollars and get the imaginations of millions of viewers. Include sales of worldwide products and a theme-park empire and you hold the components for one of the greatest profitable and prominent media operations in the world.The growth of Disney to its present state might look unavoidable in hindsight; however, the company that showed the world to Mickey Mouse was in great problem when present CEO Robert Iger became the […]

June 15, 2020 Read in Browser TOGETHER WITH Good morning. Let’s start keeping track of “news that wouldn’t have been news in 2019.” Here’s our first entry: This weekend, New Zealand hosted a rugby match with nearly 20,000 people.  Honorable mention: France will let people sit inside its bars and restaurants starting today. MARKETS YTD PERFORMANCE NASDAQ 9,588.81 + 6.87% S&P 3,041.31 – 5.86% DJIA 25,605.54 – 10.28% GOLD 1,737.30 + 14.30% 10-YR 0.704% – 121.60 bps OIL 36.56 – […]

1-Sentence-Summary: Chasing The Scream is a scathing review of the failed war on drugs, explaining its history with surprising statistics and identifying new ways that we can think about addiction, recovery, and drug laws. Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author: It’s been 100 years since we made drugs illegal and began what is known as the war on drugs. Though we are fighting drugs by criminalizing them, drug deaths in the US have nearly tripled since 1990. […]

1-Sentence-Summary: Creative Confidence helps break the mundanity of everyday work and life by exploring the power that being more innovative has to improve happiness and success in many different areas. Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author: Did you ever doodle in class? If you’re like me, you might have felt bad for “wasting time” on drawing. Even though I had an art class in elementary school, I still felt like I wasn’t productive unless I was working […]

1-Sentence-Summary: What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School teaches why succeeding in business has less to do with accumulated theoretical knowledge through schooling and books, and more about people and communication. Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author: Are you the type of student who struggled through coursework in college? Maybe you watched as many of your friends breezed through their college years with what appeared to be great ease. Or maybe you were that student […]

1-Sentence-Summary: The Path Made Clear contains Oprah Winfrey’s tips for how to discover your real purpose so you can live a life of success and significance. Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author: Wouldn’t it be nice if we all came to this earth with some sort of calling based on what we’re good at that would give us purpose? In a sense, we actually are all born with a calling. We have innate strengths and interests that […]