COSTA’S CORNER-2019 There’s gold in them thar hills! Uh, not really. Sometimes it’s fools gold and that’s todays lesson. This story goes back a few years and will help you understand why I tell people to stay away from Bitcoin and all its permutations. While on the trading floor, one of my co-workers had purchased a PC to “mine Bi...

“Hump? What hump? With apologies to Mel Brooks and Young Frankenstein there is a story that has been developing for over two years and it just seems like no one cares or if they do care, they are not taking it serious. Brexit. The UK’s planned move out of the European Union this March is a major story with what could be Worldwide implicatio...

The law of unintended consequences, maybe. It’s not yet the biggest story of 2019 but it soon will be and that’s part of the problem. The partial US Government shutdown has put roughly 800,000 people on furlough. Some of them are working through the shutdown because their jobs are considered essential yet not critical but they are not getti...

Dig a little deeper, things may not be what they seem. This being the second full week of January, it’s earnings season! The two-week period where companies release detailed financial reports about how well they did (or didn’t do) in the previous three months. That report also contains what the company thinks about its present business prospe...

The light at the end of the tunnel that is this trade war with China gets brighter and dimmer each day. When you think there will be a resolution, there isn’t. When you think things will get worse, they don’t. I say enough already. Fix it or I am going somewhere else. According to several different sources, it appears there are manufacturers ...