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Last week, I wrote about a possible bubble developing in the Chinese stock market. If you missed it (we experienced some technical difficulties) you...

More than 75 million Americans began retiring last summer. And as a result of the ferocious 2008-2009 economic collapse, for thousands of them, retirement began a lot sooner than expected. Overall, jobs in the economy are being lost by the millions. See any winners here? I do, and big winners they will be.

How can I say this best? Stock market valuations are not low. If you are retired or saving in hopes of retiring, you must laser focus on having a consistent flow of cold cash to pay the tab for your weekly grass-fed-to-the-end beef, fresh-ground flax, coconut milk loaded with medium-chain fatty acids, and omega-3-loaded Country Hen organic eggs.

The Shanghai A-share stock index is up 79% YTD, making it the second-best-performing stock market in the world. What is driving the resurgence in...

The terror of outliving your money has now taken hold for too many investors. It’s not hard to see why, given that discerning investors remember like yesterday the 1965-1981 16-year bear market, where the Dow ended up at 875, 10% lower than its 1965 peak of 969.

The U.S. recession has curbed demand for natural gas while supply has continued to increase. The obvious result has been…

Despite pockets of strength, the bear market in stocks staggers on, eyeing, with an increasing daily concern, the RPM’s (Radical Progressive Movement) sweeping program of socialism and quasi central government nationalization. The stock market hated the Bush-fronted neo-con disaster, and rightfully, is even more scared of the “Chicago Cabal.”

From 1995 through 2006, corn subsidies in the U.S. totaled $56.2 billion, and this spring farmers seeded the second largest amount of land with corn in more than 60 years. According to the WSJ, “The Obama administration is pushing a big expansion in ethanol, including a mandate to increase the share of the corn-based fuel required in gasoline from 10% to 15%. Apparently, no one in the administration has read a pair of new studies, one from its own EPA, that exposes ethanol as a bad deal for consumers with little environmental benefit.”

I just checked the yield on my money market fund. How does 0.01% sound to you? Sounds to me like the mid term GPA average for the Delta House gang back at Dean Wormer’s fictional Faber College.

Have you looked at interest rates lately? 3-month T-Bills are at 0.20%, 3-month CDs 0.38%, money markets 1.29%, 5 year CDs 2.62% and 10-year...