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This reminds me of Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment Now", where he quotes Max Roser "that if news outlets truly reported the changing state of the world, they could have run the headline NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EXTREME POVERTY FELL BY 137,000 SINCE YESTERDAYevery day for the last twenty-five years."

On a stage in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday two men aged 88 and 95 reminded the audience that if anybody had invested US$10,000 into US equities in 1942 when Warren Buffett started buying shares, it would now be worth over US$50 million.

Federal Reserve Meeting / Australian Banks (ANZ) / Amazing Amazon

More no doubt later on defence, security, telecommunications, Belts and Roads, the Arctic...but note the trade numbers:

I am fortunate to have the pleasure of working with great friends on an institutional raise for a whole loan and securitised mortgage fund in 2009. A very special pleasure, however, was to work with Martin Feldstein, "Marty".

"In the absence of an outright recession, this action would remove much of the downside risk facing the equity market. In fact, bulls will point out that the equity market surged 14 per cent in the six months that followed Alan Greenspan’s first “insurance” cut in 1995."

Bids are invited at $3.50 representing a ~9.0% discount to the prevailing price of the last 2months for up to ~4.5% of Common Equity [USD 7.5mio]

The speed and magnitude of the moves reaffirm the requirement for investors to hold core investment beliefs that are flexible and firmly held at the same time.

Portfolio construction, asset allocation, correlation, rebalancing and the CS survey of North American institutional investorsI like the CS survey of institutional investor meetings and have paraphrased their takeaways below.

Opportunistic allocation to a Private Debt Fund managed by a preeminent global distressed, special situations, and private equity investment manager.

Our ships have completed their scan of the area and found nothing. If the Millennium Falcon went into light-speed, it'll be on the other side of the galaxy by now.

On Tuesday afternoon, Fed chair Jerome Powell announced his intention to once again expand the central bank’s balance sheet. Just don’t call it QE: