Everyone likes to get something for nothing. Whether it’s a hot breakfast with your hotel room, a car wash with an oil change or an order of fries with a hamburger, it’s always satisfying to feel like you’re on the receiving… Read More

Do you want to become a millionaire? This is obviously a rhetorical question… the majority of us would love it. But what’s your plan for achieving this goal? If your plan is to make this sort of wealth in the stock… Read More

We are on the brink of a revolution. But let me tell you, this revolution doesn’t involve explosive growth in Asia, the collapse of the euro, or the end of the world as we know it (although some may be wondering about that in light of today’s… Read More

The markets, which had looked to be edging back toward historical valuation levels, closed down nearly 2.5% across the board Friday, Sept. 2 on poor jobs data, and I don’t mean Steve. The Labor Department… Read More

One of the biggest energy discoveries of the decade has been made in our own back yard. It’s not really a new discovery at all. In fact, we’ve known about the potential for years. It’s just that, until now, no one’s been able to do anything about… Read More

We watched the market implode last week. Some were scared, some were exhilarated. Some could only watch. When the market closed flat Friday after a tough Thursday, in which more than a trillion dollars of investor wealth was wiped away, I think pretty much everyone was pretty… Read More

After watching the recent market news, many wonder if we’ll ever see the market come back to pre-recession levels again. For many investors with less experience in the market, or investors who came of age during the boom years of the 1990s, this kind of recent market turbulence seems very… Read More

A gain of 25%… 50%… even more than 100% in a single trading day? It’s rare. But it does happen. Take Dendreon Corp. (Nasdaq: DNDN), for example. Dendreon has a new drug called Provenge that taps into the immune system to fight prostate cancer. Read More

If there is ever a position to be in, then this is it. I like to imagine what it would be like. The phone rings and my assistant tells me another CEO is on the phone. He gets right to the point. He wants… Read More

Love him or hate him, President Barack Obama has done one thing that will change health care in the United States forever. And it’s actually a good thing. The $787 billion stimulus bill passed in 2009 contained a massive provision for the adoption of electronic medical records… Read More