Friday Fun

Atlas loves poring over data.  Turning data into actionable information is the firm’s primary effort.  Our process is designed to observe dispassionately financial markets, searching for places your money will be well served.  For many, headlines create distractions to investment decisions.  Atlas’ data-driven approach seeks to minimize the constant noises of a 2

Janet Yellen, the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, has very little explaining left to do.  She presided over her penultimate Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, followed by a press conference; her final meeting, coming at the end of January, is not scheduled to include news organizations.

Some of you may be aware that Christopher is a strict vegetarian.  But he wasn't always such.  In fact, he remembers In-N-Out being his favorite purveyor of hamburgers back in his more carnivorous days.  But that was then and this is now, and it turns out his current dietary habits are more favorable to our planet's well-being than are mine.  Way more, really.

A Mahayana Buddhist tale describes two birds, the Kankucho, who live high atop the world's tallest mountains.  It's always cold there, so too are they.  Every night Mrs. Kankucho cries out "I'm freezing." and Mr.

Last Friday we discussed the difference between factual data (we called this “WHAT IS”) and “everything else” (which we called “static”) or the entire sum of all interpretations, extrapolations, and forecasts that inevitably follow the publishing of every data point.  And we promised to provide an example of the latter, so here goes.

Every morning at 6:30 PST, Mr. Market gives Atlas a wake-up call. During the preceding 14.5 hours, our sites and sources have been parsing the data collected from the prior day’s activity in all the financial markets we follow.

All models are wrong, but some are useful – George E. P. Box

As Britain negotiates its exit from prior trading contracts as a member of the European Union, it has begun to forge new economic relations and reinforce others. On September 20, 2017, the island nation held a signing ceremony at the U.S. Department of State marking an $88 million commitment to participate in a particle physics experiment.

We’ve all come across an individual who is good at everything.  You know, that friend who speaks several languages or excels at games of logic.  How about those folks who pick up musical instruments for the first time and instantly play a generational favorite?  Perhaps this describes you.  One thing is for sure, it does not describe me.  These unique individuals

Technology continues rippling through our economy in interesting and innovative ways.  We have all heard how easy it is to shop from home and have boxes appear on your doorstep filled with your latest purchases.  Even more technical advances are helping NASA train astronauts using virtual reality.  Those of us not proficient in physics are still able to experience the tech-revolu