Investors Driving Real Estate’s Wild Ride
You can see on the chart below that over time, sales of homes and the number of mortgage applications have tracked each other pretty...
What to Do about Vanguard GNMA
You don’t want to sell Vanguard GNMA. I know its price is down. And often, when investors see share prices go down, they sell....
Retiring Baby Boomers in the Days of Bubble and Bust
Are you a Baby Boomer heading into retirement? Chances are 2008 hit you like an anvil. Your pension portfolio and the price of your...
A Winning Stock Policy for You
Thinking about all the cash Apple is holding on to makes me wonder about its dividend policy. Some of that cash would probably be...
Sequester Cuts? What Sequester Cuts?
Both parties in Washington D.C. are desperately attempting to avoid the sequester “spending cuts” that they passed with a bipartisan majority only a short...
Coal Consumption Plummeting in America
Coal consumption in America is plummeting. During the recent recession the volume of coal consumption fell from a peak of 94.7 million tons in...
This Stock Rally Is a Dud
Investors are not paying attention to the real returns of this stock market. Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes, wrote a spot-on piece recently in...
America’s Businesses Not Feeling the Love
With the stock market soaring one would expect businesses to be exploding with optimism. Since the beginning of 2013 the S&P 500 is up...
Like a Rolling Stone
Japan’s stock market is up 9.3% this year (chart 1). But in US dollar terms it’s up only 0.6% (chart 2). As you can...
Investors Ride Shotgun in Bernanke’s Free Money Truck
With a strong start out of the gates in 2013, U.S. stocks have now almost fully recovered from the devastating 57% plunge during the...