There is a tendency to compare the merits of investing in Gold, Oil, the Dollar, and the Equity indexes like the S&P, Dow, and more. There are multiple ways to approach this, and many have simply looked at the charts, long, short, and intermediate. Many approaches have nothing to do with real investing. From my…
The job report today came in at +117,000, creating an unemployment number of 9.1% vs. last reported 9.2%. The error margin is +/- 100,000. This means that the number is statistically irrelevant. Yet our news media and low-level talking heads in the financial industry choose to play it up as if it’s the beginning of…
We the people can control gas prices. Want them lower? Let’s all pick a weekend and just not buy a drop of gas from Friday morning until Monday morning. Think the price will drop? You Betcha! Just remember not buy more than usual on Monday or we’ll just see prices go right back up. Do…
Markets have gone through a corrective downturn and may be finished with the negative trend for now, so it’s back to the positive side. What do you own that is worth owning in a up-trend? During a downturn we would ask a different question, “What do you own that you shouldn’t during a down-trend?” Anything already languishing…
No flag yet to say the current correction in the market is over. We seem to be getting a bounce out of some news but the fallout of increased government spending, further stress from ongoing commodity increases, and more are likely to keep a damper in place. Business Owners should expect further caution in their…
There are as many individual definitions of Business Success as there are people. The differences are simply variables in priorities, and depending upon where an individual is in the process. Even if you feel you are not in business, maybe an artist, you still must plan for the result of where the art ends up,…
I remember a time when Apple was such a loser company I actually hoped they would go under. The story was tiring. Just one newly designed cheapo Mac after another, always at a premium to market prices. Unless you were a hardcore graphics artist who already knew the Mac there was no reason for its…
It continues to amaze me how accurate the Investor’s Business Daily is. I wonder why anyone follows any other market news and investing service.
Do you hear the howling? The wind rushes through the area this time of year, raising kites, blowing dust, and lifting hope of spring. But the howling winds are not the only sounds we hear. Maybe the noise is through the rafters during the madness of basketball! Maybe it’s the sound of investors gaining momentum…
Iranian’s taking on the west with ships headed to the Suez. Isreal has warned they may take action: http://fxn.ws/eL6pYQ
The NYSE was sold out yesterday to the German Boerse exchange in a merger deal. A major icon of our American ingenuity and capitalist structure has truly been sold out to a foreign entity. Even if they try to say Americans still have an interest in it, it’s like you owning one share of Walmart…
Dallas, TX, home of the Super Bowl this weekend, and home of the avalanche roof over the stadium. Did you watch the video of the avalanche? Maybe they should rename the stadium or the bowl as the Avalanche Stadium. It’s just another sign, this frigid winter, that it is all Green Bay, the Packer’s Stadium and not…