Joshua M Brown

Asymmetry

Measures of volatility don’t always match up well with the direction of the stock market.

Failure

The President’s failure to suppress the virus’s spread through strong, consistent national policies and Speaker Pelosi’s failure to make a deal with the Treasury Secretary for a new round of stimulus (so far) have now hit the tape in the form of a deceleration in hiring this past month. September’s jobs report came out this…

The opposite of stimulus

Here’s an ETF of European bank stocks versus their US counterparts in the negative interest rate era. Both suck. But one sucks so much more. That’s because in the United States, we never went full ___ and did the negative rates thing. In Europe, they can’t stop themselves from doing it. It’s bizarre, because it…