they also said ceo jane elfers was overpaid and called for the company to put itself up for sale. two months later, they managed to resolve the dispute by giving the activists two seats on the board of directors. at the time i was skeptical they could have any kind of impact. a suboptimal company doesn't become a great one overnight. and back then, it sure looked like children's place was suboptimal. since then, though, wow. this company has made a turnaround thanks to the jane elfers, but also with the plotting of very smart activists who came together with some very good ideas. in fact, the stock is now up 84% for 2016, and i bet it continues to rally through the end of the year because money managers love to buy winners in december so they can show their investors how smart they are when they have to reveal their year-end holdings. we first saw some signs this turn was happening at children's place roughly a year ago. while the company posted a big revenue miss and an ugly 3% decline in same-store sales, there was some m p for example, elfers finally managed to get the company'

jane elfers of children's place no matter what anyone, including amazon says, there is only one netflix. oh, and nvidia, it's like the intel of old. it has the chips that work the fastest with the most power and are most elegant for gaming, for machine learning, for artificial intelligence. nvidia has simply outengineered everyone else. now, what does this paucity of non-macro blamers mean? i think it's part and parcel with the election frankly. it says something about the results that the pollsrs the reason why companies blame the macro so much is because the macro is pretty darn subpar. yes, employment's good. yes, there are jobs to be had. yes, wages are going higher. yes, the dow is not far from its all time highs which it made a few days ago. but there simply isn't enough growth to go around for these companies, and people are sick of it, and they blame the politicians. they want less gloom. they want more surety. they want a sense of order. the election may not solve that. however, the fact i can only think of four companies that weren't trapped by the macro tells me the economy i