BREAKING: The Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) fell -1.3% in July to 97.7 points, the lowest level since the 2020 lockdowns. This index tracks the health of the restaurant industry in the US by measuring sales, customer traffic, labor, and overall business conditions. Since

My latest going over a fireside chat with BCI's Head of Private Equity Jim Pittman: pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-fire…

Andy Jassy’s return-to-office mandate shows how serious the Amazon culture mid-life crisis has gotten finance.yahoo.com/news/andy-jass…

Amazon employees blast Andy Jassy’s RTO mandate: ‘I’d rather go back to school than work in an office again’ finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-em…

Steve Cohen has stepped away from the trading floor bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

My latest on why CDPQ has once again struck a deal with The AES Corporation to take a 30% stake in its Ohio utility with a US$546 million investment: pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2024/09/cdpq-t…

Fed cuts interest rates by half point, signals two additional cuts this year finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-cuts-… via Yahoo Finance

Fed Bowman's dissent is first from Fed governor since 2005 finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-bowma… via Yahoo Finance

Fed meeting recap: Chair Jerome Powell defends central bank's decision to go big with first cut cnb.cx/3zzLVEd

My latest going over an interview with IMCO CIO Rossitsa Stoyanova and their big bet on private markets: pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2024/09/imcos-…

My latest going over David Rubenstein's interview with CPP Investments' CEO John Graham on Bloomberg Wealth: pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2024/09/cpp-in…

Vanguard lays out key investing strategy after Fed rate cut finance.yahoo.com/news/vanguard-…

Trump keeps hammering Fed over rate cut: 'It was a political move' finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-kee… via Yahoo Finance

Fed's Waller: Weak inflation data cemented case for 50 basis point cut finance.yahoo.com/news/feds-wall… via Yahoo Finance

Fed dissenter Bowman preferred smaller rate cut because 'we have not yet achieved our inflation goal' finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-disse… via Yahoo Finance

I've rarely seen folks as interested in a story as they are in Mark Robinson's scandal. Google searches for him are through the roof nationally & in North Carolina. Although Robinson was likely losing anyway, the prez race in NC is tied & NC is basically a must win for Trump.

For Wall Street traders whose taste for speculation only seems to get bolder by the week, Jerome Powell’s half-point rate cut was a moment of vindication trib.al/ZgeQfe5

US SEC intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk in Twitter probe finance.yahoo.com/news/us-sec-in… via Yahoo Finance

This week's interest rate cut has Silicon Valley in a good mood. Why many venture capitalists feel that a decline in rates is good for business trib.al/RdfYOQQ

My latest on why the Federal Reserve will not stop a jumbo recession despite its latest jumbo rate cut: pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-fe…