Monthly Archives: February, 2016

Is Your Broker Giving You the Best Advice?

Once again a Wall Street brokerage has been caught red-handed passing off puff pieces on the stocks and bonds of companies it has an investment...

Roger Babson Quoted in Book: 1929

Here’s a reminder about the markets, emailed to me by a client from the Greatest Generation over the weekend. What she sent was not only...

Friday Free For All: Negative Rates a Failure

Negative Rates Don't Work BlackRock's Senior Director Peter Fisher eviscerates the idea of negative rates in this interview with Bloomberg. Gold vs Negative Rates Mining CEO lays...

Warren Miller: Your Search for Freedom

If you’re a skier then you know the name Warren Miller—famous for his ground-breaking ski movies shot in some of the most beautiful mountains...

Can OPEC Tame Texas?

At Bloomberg, Javier Blas and Dan Murtaugh write: Saudi Arabia and Russia have taken the first step to stem the slide in oil prices. There’s...

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The Power of a Compound Interest Table

Compound interest was described as the greatest mathematical discovery...

A Rising Storm: US Targets China’s Maritime Giants

The U.S. has blacklisted China’s largest shipping line, Cosco...

Dick Young: “One Word Investors Must Avoid”

“Survival Guy,” he said, “Inertia is the foe of...

Frozen Gold: Greenland’s Riches and the Struggle to Extract Them

Greenland has vast mineral reserves critical for tech and...

Flat Tax: The Next Step in Tax Reform

You saw during the pre-Covid era in the first...

Remember Dick Young’s Retirement Compounders?

As I mentioned to you here, I did a...

Spend Some Money on Your Survival

In today's era of rapidly advancing technology, in which...

Is the Palisades Fire a Reignition Blaze from New Year’s Eve?

The deadly Palisades fire may have been caused by...

Vanguard Wellington (VWELX): The Original Balanced Fund

The Vanguard Wellington Fund (VWELX) is the original balanced...

USCBP Tightens Rules on De Minimis Exemptions

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is proposing new...