A reader emailed me yesterday to tell me that while visiting his daughter at a college in North Carolina, he refilled his rental car with gas for $1.39 a gallon. So I got the idea that something really big is going on here that no one is yet seeing. I processed the possibilities in my
Corporate earnings are up big! Great! Buy! No wait! The economy is going down the toilet! Sell! Buy! Sell! Buy! Sell! Help! Anyone would be forgiven for thinking that the stock market has become bipolar. According to the Commerce Department?s Bureau of Economic Analysis, the answer is that corporate profits accounts for only a small
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I?m sitting here at my Lake Tahoe lakefront mansion watching the Dow Average open down 700 points from its Friday intraday high. It is one of those perfect, picture postcard days, with a blue sky and cobalt lake. The fields outside are covered with snow crystals sparkling in the sunshine. After the close, I?m going
I spent an evening with Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute and a winner of the coveted MacArthur Prize, for some long-term thinking about the environment and its investment implications. Global warming is causing the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers in the Himalayas, and the Sierra snowpack. Water tables
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Those of a certain age can?t help but remember that things for the US went to hell in a hand basket after 1963.That?s when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, heralding decades of turmoil. Race riots exploded everywhere. The Vietnam War ramped up out of control, taking 60,000 lives, and destroying the nation?s finances. Nixon
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There is no better sight to a hungry trader than blood in the water. ?Buy them when they?re cryin? is an excellent investment strategy that always seems to work. There are rivers of tears being shed over the banking industry right now. Federal Reserve officials openly told investors that after the December ?% rate hike
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?As for the Swiss franc, there?s blood in the street and on the walls,? said Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm.
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There are very few people I will drop everything to listen to.One of the handful is Daniel Yergin, the bookish founder and CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, the must-go-to source for all things energy.Daniel received a Pulitzer Prize for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a rare feat for a
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I was just about to don my backpack and head out for my evening hike when I caught a phone call from Tokyo. The Bank of Japan had just announced they were implementing negative interest rates for the first time in history. The Japanese yen (FXE), (YCS) was in free fall and the stock market
The Tesla Model S1 (TSLA) has been rated by Consumer Reports magazine as the best car ever built, grabbing a covered 100 score out of 100. They called the vehicle ?perfect.? It has been ranked by the US government Department of Transportation as the safest car ever built. Even competitors love the car. So I
?Wall Street subprimed commodities,? said Brian Reynolds, chief market strategist of Rosenblatt Securities, of the oil price crash.
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Southern California Edison (SCE/PF) has announced that it is permanently shuttering its controversial nuclear power plant at San Onofre, California. The move is only the latest in a series of closures implemented by utilities around the country, and could well spell the end of this flagging industry. This is further dismal news for holders of