Portfolio Manager of the Bullseye American Ingenuity Fund and author of the weekly Bullseye Brief. Ex-BloombergTV anchor. Love to shoot, ski, paint, cook.
In 30 days, NY politicians have booted $AMZN in spite of 25k new jobs, and enabled abortion the day before delivery.
Wait WHAT?
I know, crazy.
I’ve never thought of myself as political, but wow.
And we pay the 2nd highest taxes in the country, for THIS?
People are moving.
CELEBRATE GROWTH
US has the widest trade deficit in history because we have:
- Highest income in history
- Strongest consumption in history
- Biggest economy in history
We buy the world’s stuff because we can, and we cannot make it all ourselves. wsj.com/articles/december-20…
Treasure Secy Scott Bessent tells @MeetThePress that 50 countries have proposed tariff negotiations… up from four yday (Cambodia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam).
Musk tells Italian #2 he’d like to see a US-EU zero-tariff free trade zone.
The olive branches are budding.
Stellar #JobsReport
Best news is WAGE GROWTH +3.1%, highest since 2009.
Hard working Americans have been waiting a long time for this.
And attention Bears... it’s not an inflationary problem until consistently >4%
Well done #MikePompeo
Diplomacy is about dialogue and I’m glad you went to North Korea
The #MainstreamMedia makes it sound like you did something sneaky. You did not.
You did your job. Thank you.
The #JobsReport is exactly as expected.
3.9% Unemployment
2.7% Wage
34.5 Hours Worked
Some will say payroll growth was light... but last month revised up provides an offset.
How absurd that $6M Chinese bot #DeepSeek is seen as able of upending US AI leadership.
This is China CCP pushing back on tariffs by hitting our markets.
I think it’s absurd and I’m buying AI stocks down 15-20%.
#AmericanIngenuityBullseyeBrief.com
Saying the Chinese fudge their growth numbers is so consensus it’s cliché.
Pollution levels have returned to pre-Corona levels, suggesting factories are indeed resuming production.
Satellite photos also confirm activity.
IMPORTANT**
$AAPL CEO Tim Cook sees supply constraints “significantly lower” for the second consecutive quarter.
Apple the biggest global buyer of electronics parts.
If he sees improvement, it’s real.
—> Implies easing inflationary pressure.
Strongest job gains in two years... two months in a row... and all anyone can talk about is CVS running out of toilet paper.
The Gloom Crew says “yeah but jobs report is backward looking”
I say #Corona will pass and it’s creating enormous opportunity for thoughtful investors
Leveling the playing field
US exports face 6.7% tariffs
US imports face 2.7% tariffs
So US goods penalized abroad at 2.5x the rate non-US goods penalized in US
Reciprocal tariffs mean US will raise tariffs to same rate it faces in other countries.
Thx @datawheel for data