Here’s the question I asked all of our strategists recently: What’s the single stock you would buy now if you knew that the next thousand trading days would turn out to be a wash for the broader… Read More
Investing Basics
Billionaire investor Jim Rogers may be most famous for calling the bottom of the commodities market and buying in 1999, just before it surged 22% during the following three years while the S&P 500 lost almost 40% in the same period. But… Read More
It’s no secret Wall Street was, for the most part, rooting for Mitt Romney to win the presidential election. After all, Republican candidates are generally viewed as more business friendly, and Romney was no exception. But even if you believe President Barack Obama’s… Read More
The markets still are largely digesting the big post-election sell-off, but it’s not so much the reelection of President Barack Obama that’s got everyone on Wall Street nervous. Rather, the biggest source of tensions fraying the nerves of traders is the potentially disastrous… Read More
The presidential election is over, but another day of reckoning approaches. A “fiscal cliff” consisting of major tax increases and spending cuts is quickly approaching. And with it, a broad swath of investments ranging from stocks and… Read More
Jim Rogers, legendary commodities investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund along with George Soros (a legend in his own right), has been looking at the pace of money printing in the developed world. And he doesn’t like what he sees. In fact, the legendary investor was recently quoted as… Read More
Jan. 1, 2013, is less than 60 days away and many are wondering how the so-called “fiscal cliff” will play out. Could this scenario be as severe as economists and investors believe? What steps, if any, will Congress take to avert disaster?#-ad_banner-# Last August, when Congress and the White House agreed… Read More
For centuries, land has been the status symbol for wealth and power. In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that you couldn’t even vote without being a property owner. Of course in those days, just like today, certain locales were far more desirable than others. When President Thomas Jefferson dispatched… Read More
Let’s face it. The so-called fiscal cliff has us all worried.#-ad_banner-# It is nothing to trifle with; it will be driven by the expiration of almost every tax cut enacted since 2001, as a whole commonly referred to as the Bush-era tax… Read More
With every passing day, the risks are rising that Washington will soon create real havoc in the U.S. economy. The “fiscal cliff” set of measures that was agreed upon many months ago is now just seven short weeks away. To hear… Read More