Every storage REIT bull is pointing at Public Storage (NYSE:PSA), the $53 billion mega-cap that just printed a Q1 Core FFO of $4.22 and announced a $10.5 billion all-stock takeover of National Storage Affiliates. But here’s what you should actually be watching. The Crowded Trade Has a Math Problem That headline FFO beat was inflated ... Public Storage Looks Good But Buy This Unstoppable REIT Wealt...
Every storage REIT bull is pointing at Public Storage (NYSE:PSA), the $53 billion mega-cap that just printed a Q1 Core FFO of $4.22 and announced a $10.5 billion all-stock takeover of National Storage Affiliates. But here’s what you should actually be watching. The Crowded Trade Has a Math Problem That headline FFO beat was inflated ... Public Storage Looks Good But Buy This Unstoppable REIT Wealth Creator as National Debt Soars
If the facts change, then I have to change. I learned that from reading the legendary British economist John Maynard Keynes, and it has never steered me wrong. I was a huge bull on this market because of the terrific things happening in artificial intelligence. And because we had a new Federal Reserve chair in Kevin Warsh, who wanted to cut interest rates to support growth, given the frozen housin...
If the facts change, then I have to change. I learned that from reading the legendary British economist John Maynard Keynes, and it has never steered me wrong. I was a huge bull on this market because of the terrific things happening in artificial intelligence. And because we had a new Federal Reserve chair in Kevin Warsh, who wanted to cut interest rates to support growth, given the frozen housing market and an underclass struggling with higher gas prices, a drop in health care coverage, and the gratuitous cut in food stamps. I made this judgment, as I always do, by going to the source: the top twenty public U.S. retailers, who know far more than the government does about spending habits. Those include the auto and the auto parts companies, as well as ancillary home care businesses. The idea that we don't need rate cuts is fanciful. But then we got the monthly employment report on Friday, which showed that job growth unexpectedly surged in May, with nonfarm payrolls jumping a seasonally adjusted 172,000, far above the Dow Jones consensus estimate of 80,000. Of course, that figure never distinguishes between those who are employed and doing well and those who are employed and trying to hold it together. A job means self-sufficiency in this country, and there's no counterargument to that line of thinking, despite my attempt to make one when I interviewed Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser. But it wasn't worth the effort, even though the nature of the poor working class is obvious to anyone except those who only have wealthy friends and acquaintances. Knowing people of all levels of the economic spectrum is like knowing the cost of milk and gasoline. It helps you to do your job well. The stronger-than-expected report wiped out the chance of rate hikes, or even a single one, this year, and that had been a major prop to my bull case. I could have looked past the macro if not for the dramatic change in the data center buildout, where costs hav...
Kristen Welker questioned Trump’s allegations that races for California governor and 2020 president were ‘rigged’ Donald Trump walked out of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press after he repeatedly made false claims that the US 2020 presidential elections was rigged in 2020 and questions around compensation for those charged in the January 6 insurrection. The US president’s abrupt exit came duri...
Kristen Welker questioned Trump’s allegations that races for California governor and 2020 president were ‘rigged’ Donald Trump walked out of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press after he repeatedly made false claims that the US 2020 presidential elections was rigged in 2020 and questions around compensation for those charged in the January 6 insurrection. The US president’s abrupt exit came during a tense exchange between himself and NBC’s Kristen Welker during a Friday interview in Wisconsin that aired on Sunday . Continue reading...