Will gold be your best-performing asset for the next five years? Is it high-growth technology stocks? Energy stocks? Or maybe biotech shares? How about French collectible postage stamps or vintage racing cars? Nope, you’re not even close. I’ll give you a hint: you’re probably sitting in it. Yes, the best-performing investment you will own for
“Low volatility and boring. That’s the mode that investors should get used to,” said Bill Gross, Managing Director at bond giant, PIMCO.
I am constantly on the lookout for ten baggers, stocks that have the potential to rise tenfold over the long term. Look at the great long-term track records compiled by the most outstanding money managers, and they always have a handful of these that account for the bulk of their outperformance, or alpha, as it
If you think that an energy shortage is bad, it will pale in comparison to the next water crisis. So investment in fresh water infrastructure is going to be a great recurring long-term investment theme. One theory about the endless wars in the Middle East since 1918 is that they have really been over water
All of the high-grade paper used by the US Treasury to print money is bought by one firm, Crane & Co., which has been in the same family for seven generations. Last year, the Feds printed 38 million banknotes worth $639 million. Although we have seen the Fed’s severe monetary tightening cause the money supply
"Go to Heaven for the climate. Go to Hell for the company," said American humorist, Mark Twain.
"In the world of business, bad news often surfaces serially. You see a cockroach in your kitchen; as the days go by, you meet his relatives," said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
When I was a DNA scientist at UCLA 50 years ago, the team used to slack off whenever our professor was attending an out-of-town conference. We used to take pure 200 proof ethanol the university kept on hand “for research purposes,” used it to bring our beer up to 100 proof, and then speculate about
A key part of my argument for a new Golden Age to take place during the coming Roaring Twenties is that the price of energy is going to zero. It may not actually make it to zero. I’ll settle for a 90%-95% decline, which is good enough for me. Take a look at the charts
"We underestimated the negative impact of the slowdown in the housing market, and we may be underestimating the tailwind in its recovery," said Uwe Mark Ruttke of Merrill Lynch, the top financial advisor in Colorado.