One of the best stock picking newspaper columns, the Wall Street Journal’s Ahead of the Tape, is winding itself down. It’s not because my friend Steven Russolillo wasn’t doing a great job – he was. Rather, it’s because this is simply not how large numbers of people invest anymore. Similar to being a stock picker,…

The below cartoon will go down as one of the preeminent pieces of iconography of the current era

Chris Cornell dies and nothing makes sense.

Now read this, again if applicable, and have a Lacroix.

He uses it like a cudgel to reinforce whatever view his gut already had in mind.

You have questions… You’re wondering how it could be possible that the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average could be climbing to record highs day after day, given, well, everything. How is it that stocks can break through to new heights while the country at large seemingly sinks to new depths?…

This is a great summation of where we are, from the always on point Nicholas Colas:

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This could change. If more of the things the President tweets begin to actually lead to legislation and policy, then the attention will return.