The latest "Apprentice Investor" column is up: Time Waits for No One. It asks the question "Have you made sure the...
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The task of calculating the enormous damage from Katrina – in Human lives, in property damage, and in economic terms – continues. As...
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Wall Street has been sifting through the horrific reports out of the Gulf of Mexico. Their rose-colored glasses allowed them to see...
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More than a few of you have emailed me about Richard Russell’s "Bullish reversal." Jeff Saut made short work of that...
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I wanted to address some of the historical comparos as to why the market has been moving higher, despite what is obviosuly (at least to...
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As long as we are pulling out the key graphs from that Rydex pdf, here’s another interesting chart: > Historical Betas of...
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The previous chart reveals the long standing secular moves of the markets; What’s an investor to do during one of the long periods...
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Yet another look (see prior takes here and here) at the concept of market cycles. The past century shows alternating Bullish and...
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Forget most of what you are reading about the post-Katrina recovery. This is an unprecedented U.S. disaster that will have repercussions...
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I’m a big believer in accountability — both on Wall Street and in D.C. That’s why I admit my (all too frequent) errors...
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