President Trump wasted no time in increasing the potential for healthcare disruption on his first day in office. Within a few hours of being inaugurated he signed an executive order that gives the heads of federal agencies whose jurisdictions are related to Obamacare what sounds like carte blanche to reshape… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Earlier today, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. In his inaugural address, President Trump stuck to his usual plain,… Read More

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Yesterday, for the first time ever, a Chinese head of state—Xi Jinping—spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He delivered the opening address. Ironically perhaps, the leader of the largest communist country in the world spoke in defense of globalization and free trade. Of course,… Read More

Online education understandably gets a bad rap, making most people thinking of high pressure enrollment tactics, diploma bills and government intervention. You can’t really blame people for thinking that way: University of Phoenix, the largest player in online education, has been the subject of multiple investigations and Corinthian Colleges was… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Cyber security was in national focus this week as President-elect Donald Trump’s first press conference since his election largely revolved around the topic. Accusations that the Russians had meddled… Read More

Less than ten days before inauguration, the president-elect held his first press conference since the summer. First and foremost on his mind: cyber security. Of course, the accusations that Russian hackers interfered in the U.S. election offers some explanation why cyber security was a key topic in today’s conference, but… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days Today we saw the first government job report for the New Year. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report showed that nonfarm payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 156,000… Read More

This afternoon the U.S. Federal Reserve released the minutes from its mid-December Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, during which the policymakers raised the benchmark federal funds rate for the first time in a year, by one quarter of one percent. The minutes show that Fed officials… Read More