What do Larry Ellison, Sean Combs, Ted Turner, Bono and Saudi Prince Alwaleed have in common with thousands of other very wealthy people? It certainly isn’t their style of dress, philosophy or even how they made their money.  In fact, these folks couldn’t be more different in terms of just… Read More

September 16, 1992, has gone down in history as the day George Soros broke the Bank of England. Britain’s effort to fight against the devaluation of the pound could not counteract the market forces that were… Read More

The current market is a stock-picker’s nightmare. Despite a positive, though slightly uninspiring economic environment in the United States and still fairly strong growth in the emerging world, asset prices are trading on one thing these days…… Read More

More millionaires have been made in real estate than any other investment in the United States. All one had to do was start buying single family homes, rent them out to cover the mortgage payment, and then… Read More

Hedge-fund managers and other institutional commodities traders are usually pretty skilled at making broad economic forecasts. But there’s one variable they just can’t seem to predict — the weather.   Mother Nature often creates havoc on agricultural production, which can be good or bad, depending on your view. Read More

I can imagine what you’re thinking after reading the headline of today’s issue… “Government bonds don’t yield 8.7%. I can go to dozens of websites and show you that 10-year… Read More

The steady market gains we’ve seen during the past four months have made me a bit nervous. All of the action seemed to be benefiting the riskier plays in the market, leaving seemingly safer plays one step behind. As a result, a focus… Read More

It wasn’t long ago that investors had to choose between hot IPOs or stocks that paid dividends. The good news is that there have been a slew of dividend-paying IPOs in the past year, making it possible to obtain, from the same investment, high yields and the nice returns that… Read More

You’ve likely never heard of it… This company doesn’t sell a physical product. It doesn’t have storefronts. And it doesn’t have a massive headquarters in a glass building in Manhattan. #-ad_banner-#In fact, its office sits in an unremarkable three-story building in a small Florida… Read More

When it comes to global stock-market performance, strategists often speak of “decoupling,” which means the smaller but faster-growing economies in emerging markets have grown to the point that they are no longer beholden to investor sentiment about… Read More