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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

The Big Picture

@TBPInvictus here Our story so far : California has been raising its minimum wage for the past decade, starting at $8/hour through 2013. To prove their point, a number of friendly commentators, academics, and hired guns all wrote endless white papers, Op-Eds and commentaries. Our story began with a Wall St.

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Market Commentary: Strong Jobs Report Gets the “Good News Is Bad News” Treatment

Carson Wealth

Good news can be bad news in the short run, but a solid economy usually becomes good news again once we get past the initial market reaction. If the underlying economy is sound, pullbacks like this can actually be a positive for the longer-term health of the market. Monthly numbers can be noisy and so a 3-month average is helpful.

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Market Commentary: Stocks Hit New Highs Amid a Year of Milestones

Carson Wealth

Optimism over lower taxes, a stronger economy, animal spirits, and strong earnings all were likely reasons for the surge. The economy created 227,000 jobs in November, close to expectations, which somewhat made up for the low 36,000 number in October (revised up from 12,000). For reference, the 2019 average was 166,000.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

But the heart of the firm was still on the private client side for any number of strategic reasons. And later on, we had a number of the discount brokers had come out in places like Schwab and Muriel Seabert, but I always felt they had followed Meryl’s lead to Absolutely. And the number came out and it was a blowout good number.

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Market Commentary: Markets Rally After Fed Meeting in Another Volatile Week

Carson Wealth

Not All Corrections Become Bear Markets We found 13 official bear markets (down 20% from recent highs) going back to World War II, with many asking whether this could become number 14. For now, the hard data suggests the economy is doing fine, but sentiment is weak (though that doesnt mean it has to translate to a weaker economy).

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Market Commentary: Why You Shouldn’t Fear New Highs

Carson Wealth

New Highs Happen in Clusters The S&P 500 broke out to new all-time highs in 2013 and it has been a major secular bull market ever sense. These aren’t particularly concerning inflation numbers, at least as far as the Fed is concerned. But there’s weakness in the economy, especially income growth.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

There are a number of people who have said, and I’ve been swayed in this direction, Hey, when you’re 20, 25 years old and you don’t need this money for 30, 40, 50 years, do you really need bonds to offset the volatility of equities? Some crazy number writing a monthly column for them. You can’t execute.

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