INSIGHTS
FEB
6
COSTA’S CORNER
And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain Sinatra singing a Paul Anka classic, the song has been used a million different ways and always comes back to someone ending a career and being proud of being his own man, no matter what others think. Tonight, President Trump will give his annual State of the Union speech, and in it, he ...
FEB
6
COSTA’S CORNER
“An amazing quality of life for all of our citizens is within reach. We can make our communities safer, our families stronger, our culture richer, our faith deeper, and our middle class and more prosperous than ever before. [applause] but we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of co...
FEB
4
COSTA’S CORNER
What is good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander No lyrics there just facts. I was going to do a piece about oil and oil prices and so on but after having read Senators Shumer and Sanders Op-ed in the New York Times today I changed my mind. The Senators want to propose legislation mandating that corporations fulfill some requirem...
JAN
29
COSTA’S CORNER
Let me tell you how it will be. There’s one for you, nineteen for me Thank you to George Harrison for one of the Beatles earliest protest songs. At the time, The Beatles were one of the top grossing acts in the World and yet they were seeing little of this newfound success. The Labour government of Harold Wilson, in the mid ‘60’s, had ins...
JAN
28
COSTA’S CORNER
Same old story, same old song and dance, my friend With thanks to Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. Seems now that Davos is over, and the shutdown is history we can focus on the same old things: Earnings, Fed meeting and some global tension somewhere. While earnings season is rolling along, I think it’s important to focus on the Federal Reserve meeti...