With so many stock market bashers on the Democratic side, investors need to really fear a sweep in November. If you like tax breaks with your investments, the bell tolls for thee. It should not come as a surprise to anyone that Joe Biden is now planning to get rid of preferential tax treatment with […]

Technical analysis can be a very useful tool if used appropriately, when used to mark out trends and trend reversals, but we need to make sure that we don’t try to do too much with it. Many people view the task of technical analysis is to use chart patterns to determine how an asset’s price […]

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has been promising to build back better. Better seems to include throwing a lot of money away on his pet projects. It is no secret that the Republican Party in the U.S. is known for its greater focus on economic prosperity overall, where the Democratic Party has other priorities. It […]

When an investment really doesn’t grow much and you are down to dividends to make money, your dividends better be good. REITs have been cutting them, but the bleeding may have stopped. People love to invest in real estate, and naturally prefer investing that is easy over more difficult and complicated means like actually buying […]

We don’t even consider beating 99% of your peers with a fund even meaningful, if your peers are weaklings. Eddie Brown’s small cap fund takes them all on though. At first glance, seeing remarks like a fund beating a high percentage of its “peers” has us grimacing a little, feeling bad for all those investors […]

Times are really changing now, which we could describe as the disparity gap between the haves and have nots widening. Those who are stuck in the past will be more disadvantaged. It is not that seeing the disparity between good and not so good stocks widen is a new thing, as this has actually been […]

We are getting a real lesson in how economic downturns disproportionately effect those less well-off economically. We need to be very careful not to make this worse on purpose. It should not surprise us to learn that the current economic downturn caused by locking down our economy to attempt the slow the spread of COVID-19 […]

With the huge decline in air travel lately, airlines have been dealt a big blow and have had to come up with ways to survive. Is American Airlines too sick to put money on now? Among the major air carriers in the U.S., American Airlines has held the most debt, but they had a good […]

Stanley Druckenmiller has scored some big wins in his career, including teaming up with George Soros to “break” the Bank of England. He is owning up to the big mistake he just made. Investor Stanley Druckenmiller hasn’t always been right about the markets, although he has been right enough often enough to have put together […]

Social media companies exist to provide platforms for public discourse. The platform itself has presumably been neutral. They are now being used to influence politics. Social media has brought about a revolution in personal communication, where the people become the media and report and share on whatever they choose. On its face, this sure seems […]