Katrina Lowers Year End Expectations
Forget most of what you are reading about the post-Katrina recovery. This is an unprecedented U.S. disaster that will have repercussions...
Chart of the Week: NYSE Making New Highs
The DOW and NASDAQ continue to make higher lows and the NASDAQ recently held critical support recently and bounced. Couple these near...
Katrina Overview (or, we’ve gone Map Crazy, Part IV)
One again, we see the internet is an unbelievable resource whenever these disasters — both manmade or Acts of God — strike....
Ben Stein: Wrong About Earnings
The (unfortunately under-rated) Dylan Ratigan is hosting Kudlow & Company tonite, and one of his guests was Ben Stein. I’ve...
Time to Bet Against the U.S. Consumer?
For at least the past decade, anyone who has bet against the resiliency and unending spending capacity of the U.S. consumer has decidedly...
Apprenticed Investor: The Stock Pre-Nup
The latest "Apprenticed Investor" column is up, and its called "The Stock Pre-Nup." Let’s assume you found a stock...
End of the World as a Profit Opportunity
Amusing though this is, its the appropriate attitude for Investors and Traders; Indeed, its precisely what colors our prior VIX...
Spiking VIX Creates Opportunity
I rarely disagree with with Mark Hulbert. He’s a longtime observer of the market and its players. Indeed, his tracking service...
Sunday Nite Linkfest
I’ve been travelling, working on two killer projects (one finance related, the other, a deadly research piece on the music...
10 rules to Win the “Loser’s Game”
Paul B. Farrell of MarketWatch reminds us of a good list of strategies, courtesy of Charles Ellis’ classic "Winning the...