With a new bull market in silver (SIL) now underway, I thought I’d delve back into the ancient past to the last major bubble in the white metal. If you like gold, you absolutely have to love silver. That’s because the white metal has a much higher beta than its yellow cousin, both of which
"What is currently happening is that we have a lot of noise around what is uneconomic. When the economic stuff starts happening, like tax cuts, that will feed into real things, like cash flow and earnings," said Bill Miller, chairman of LMM Investments.
Being an old do-it-yourself carpenter, I never throw anything away. My garage is filled with ancient tools I bought 50 years ago and used only once. Scraps of wood, odd lengths of wiring, and old coffee cans filled with loose nuts, screws, and nails are everywhere. You KNOW that if you throw a tool out,
"In investment management, the progression is from the innovators to the imitators, to the swarming incompetents," said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
There was probably no more broken promise in the investment world over the last several years than that energy master limited partnerships (MLPs) would hold up even if the price of oil fell. These guys were toll takers, it was said, and profited from the volume of crude pumped through their pipelines. The price of
"The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the many from touching the equipment," said organizational consultant, Warren Bennis.
In the words of United States Army General, Creighton Abrams, "When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time."
"The rule of thumb is to do your homework, do your analysis, don't give up prudent risk management for the sake of certain fads. Look for real valuations, and stay true to your time frames," said Marc Chandler, the global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman.
"Since 9-11, the government knows a lot more about you than you know about them, and the government likes that. But that's not what the American people want," said California Republican Congressman, Daryl Issa.
Lately, I have been getting a lot of calls from concerned readers worried that we might be going into another 2008-2011 style real estate crash, when home prices cratered by 50%-70%, once the pandemic ends. It’s not going to happen and there are a dozen reasons why. Worst case, I expect a short, shallow pause