IN THE MEDIA

Peter Atwater as a primary source

When the media is interested in how consumer confidence ties to what is making headlines, they turn to Peter Atwater for perspective.  Links to some recent mentions are below:

Why You’re Not in the Mood

Aaron Rogers and Mehmet Oz Don’t Know Absolutely Everything

Lifestyles of the Rich and Gullible: Theranos and Ozy Edition

They Were On Equal Footing.  Then The Ground Shifted

DealBook: A Big Bet That May Not Be Enough

The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Indicator? The Ads

Dow Sits Out Stock Market’s Wild Ride

How A Social Media Frenzy Around Credit Suisse Rattled Its Stock

GameStop, AMC Entertainment Shares Soar as Meme Stock Rally Returns

Elon Musk Has Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Influencer, Like It or Not

The New Stock Influencers Have Huge And Devoted Followings

When SPACs Attack! A New Force Is Invading Wall Street

What Tesla’s Addition to the S&P500 Means for Investors

Wheels Come Off Nikola

Davey the Day Trader Deconstructed

Big Tech and Momentum Stocks Fall Victim to Coronavirus Fears

Wall Street and White House Diverge on Coronavirus

Stocks, Bonds Oil, Bitcoin Are All Up. The Everything Rally Is Back Worrying Some Investors

The Return of the Political-Risk Trade

A Different Kind of Housing Bubble

The Gap Between The Haves And The Have-Nots Is Widening Sharply

Beware Your Inner Reptile

Bitcoin as a Call Option

America’s two-track economy: the small business credit crunch

From ‘just in time’ to just in case’

Covid-19 and the generational divide

A veneer of calm before the next gust blows

Dystopian America: How far are we from Gilead?

Growth Stalls as oil dividend remains unspent

Facts Vs. Feelings

Odd Lots: This Could Be Crypto’s Lasting Legacy

GameStop’s Retail Army Clings To Gains Amid Meme-Stock Meltdown

Bankman-Fried, Changpeng Zhao Bloodsport Sows Crypto Catastrophe in FTX

Odd Lots: The Real Problem With Crypto

Beware The ‘Cover Curse:’ How To Know When A Market Meltdown Is Overdone

Big Short Investor Burry’s Tweets Resonate With Anxious Traders

Netflix Inflation And Reality In The Inflationary And Post-Pandemic World

Yield Curve Inversion Isn’t A Foolproof Indicator Of Recession This Time

The Paranoid Style In American Investing In 2021

In the Tarantino Market the Hottest Stocks Are Getting Quietly Killed

Benjamin Ho Discusses “Why Trust Matters” with John Authers

Bitcoin Flash Crash: Coinbase IPO, Musk on SNL Were Bubble Tells

Crypto Owes Its Rise to Irrational Gloom

Crypto’s Coming of Age May Kill the Bitcoin Bubble

Warren Buffett’s Bond Lament Is A Reflation Reality Check

The Bubble’s Final Paroxysm May Be Months Away

The Stocks Bubble-O-Meter Is Flashing Bright Red

Americans Are Getting Richer, Helped By Federal Reserve Policies

The Shape of the Recovery May End Up Coming From Another Alphabet-Shaped Recovery

K-Shaped Recovery To Worsen Inequities In Jobs To Real Estate

Those K-Shaped Fangs May Snap Shut On Investors

An Ominous Shape Emerges For Economic Recovery: K is For Kryptonite

Much of America Is Shut Out of The Greatest Borrowing Binge Ever

Fear Not, the Stocks Rally Has a Simple Explanation

When Plagues Pass, Labor Gets the Upper Hand

Close The Market?  Data and Psychology Say Maybe

Pandemic Is Natural, But Try to Resist

Wall Street Gripped by Irrational Equanimity

Americans are stuck in an age of scarcity and they don’t like it

The Billionaire Boom

GameStop, AMC Shares Surge After Reddit Users Lead Chaotic Revolt

How a K-Shaped Recovery Is Widening U.S. Inequality

What A Contested Election Means For The Economy

The Recession Is Over For The Rich, But The Working Class Is Far From Recovered

Recession Fears Grow as Wall Street Investors Brace for a Wild Weak for Stocks

How Healthy Is the U.S. Economy?

As Stocks Tumble, The U.S. Wonders Is This Economy As Good As It Gets?

Disney Shanghai resort partially reopened.  Will people go?

The Inequality is Getting Harder to Ignore

Jerome Powell’s Ironic Legacy On Economic Inequality

America’s Two Coronavirus Realities

Everything Is Local Again

Coronavirus Could Fuel Middle East Unrest

With Coronavirus and Climate Change, It Is About Time

The Market Is So Haywire Some Wall Street Analysts Threw In The Towel

Coronavirus Pandemic Could Inflict Emotional Trauma and PTSD

The Bleak Covid Winter? America Still Not On Course

Making Billions Versus Making Ends Meet

Threats Mount to Dollar’s Role as World’s Reserve Currency

Fear of a June Swoon Rattles Investors.  Is a Rebound Lurking

Today’s Wacky Markets Could Be Beyond Irrational Exuberance

GameStop is Just the Latest Sign of a Speculative Frenzy

ARK ETFs Are More Popular Than Ever

Investors Are Gorging on Hyper-Bullishness

Football is Back.  But the Real Contact Sport This Fall Is the Election