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"Outsourcing is quickly becoming mostly outdated as a business model," said former GE CEO, Jeffrey Immelt.

Global Market Comments July 10, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TRADING THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION)

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," said John F. Kennedy, America's 35th president.  

Global Market Comments July 9, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DIAMONDS ARE STILL AN INVESTOR'S BEST FRIEND), (SO, YOU THINK THEY'RE NOT WATCHING YOUR PC?)

If you forgot to buy your loved one a birthday present and spent a week sleeping on the sofa eating canned food, and cleaning out the cat box, you now have a chance to redeem yourself. A revolutionary new website exists called Mazal Diamond, which promises to turn the online jewelry business upside down. I

Hey! You there, staring at this monitor. This is your PC talking to you. No, not you over there standing in the background. I'm talking to the guy sitting in front of me poking at my keys. Ouch! That one hurt! So, you thought no one was watching, did you? Let me set you straight.

"We are still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. I would have to put the likelihood of a double-dip recession now up to 50%," said my old UC Berkeley economics professor, Robert Reich.  

Global Market Comments July 6, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (BE CAREFUL WHO YOU SNITCH ON), (COULD YOU QUALIFY TO BECOME A U.S. CITIZEN?)

Buried in the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill are massive financial rewards for turning in your boss. The SEC is hoping that multimillion-dollar rewards amounting to 10% to 30% of sanction amounts will drive a stampede of whistle-blowers to their doors with evidence of malfeasance and fraud by their employers. If such rules were in place

Global Market Comments July 5, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TRADING FOR THE NON-TRADER), (ROM), (UXI), (UCC), (UYG)

Global Market Comments July 3, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TAKING OFF FOR EUROPE), (JOIN ME ON THE QUEEN MARY 2 FOR MY JULY 11, 2018 SEMINAR AT SEA), (TESTIMONIAL)

Terrorist attacks, trade wars, and crashing airlines all spell one thing to me. Travel bargains! Of course, my first choice for a vacation destination this year was the civil war in Syria, so I could find out on the ground what is really happening there. In addition, I could shop for a refugee camp in

Come join me in the grand appointments of the Cunard Line's flagship, the elegant and spacious Queen Mary 2, on an eastbound transatlantic cruise. The Ship departs New York at 10:00 AM on July 6, 2018 and arrives at Southampton on July 13. There I will be conducting the Mad Hedge Fund Trader's Strategy Update,

I can't tell you how much I enjoy your blog. It is the first place I go every morning, and I miss you on the weekends. I stumbled upon your site about four months ago and have been addicted to it since day one. I really appreciate not only your insight into the markets, but

"It doesn't take Herculean assumptions to get to $170 for S&P 500 earnings this year. Slap a 17.5 multiple on that, and you get 3,000 for the index," said Brian Jacobsen of Wells Fargo Asset Management.  

Global Market Comments July 2, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, OR THE FUTURE IS HAPPENING FAST), (HOG), (TLT), (ROM), (MU), (NVDA), (LRCX), (SPY), (AMZN), (NFLX), (EEM), (UUP), (WBA), (THE WORST TRADE IN HISTORY), (AAPL)

I feel like I'm living life in fast forward these days. First we got a slap across the face with a wet mackerel on Monday with a 328 plunge in the Dow Average on yet another trade war escalation. Harley Davidson (HOG) said it was moving a factory out of the country to bypass new

"Not investing in technology now is like not investing in industrial companies during the Industrial Revolution," said one portfolio manager.  

Global Market Comments June 29, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHY THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END), (TLT), (TBT), (HYLD), (LQD), (JNK), (SPG), (JOIN US AT THE MAD HEDGE LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA, CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 26-27, 2018)

I am basically a positive person. I never have been much of a Cassandra who predicts the end is near and the world is about to end. Nor have I ever been one to exaggerate. In this day, the raw facts are strange enough. But you know what? The end really IS near and the