Bill Gates is the second-wealthiest man on Earth. His fortune is estimated to be an astounding $54 billion. If we itemize his net worth in the past 25 years at 14 hours per day, it would work out to earning $1 million per hour… Read More

If you’re an income investor, then you might think there’s a conspiracy against you. Ten-year government bond rates reached record lows around the world last month: in Germany, the United States and Sweden they were under 1.50%. In Japan, the 10-year bond… Read More

For about a decade now, investors have been worried that consumers would “cut the cord” and replace their cable TV subscriptions with free online content, which has been increasingly available.  Truth is, this probably will never completely happen. #-ad_banner-#For starters, the programming content on the leading cable networks is world-class. Read More

Do quarterly results even matter? Investors had been anticipating a fairly tough set of reports prior to the most recent earnings season, but they bid up stocks throughout March anyway. When those reports rolled in across April and early May, the numbers (and… Read More

The debt crisis in Europe is dominating the headlines this summer, roiling the world financial markets and keeping investors in a perpetual state of fear. The news focuses mainly on a handful of countries that have huge debt loads such as Greece and Italy, but stock markets on both sides… Read More

Platinum hasn’t been this cheap in 20 years…  Right now, you can buy an ounce of platinum for $1,480. With gold trading around $1,620/oz, this means you can buy one of the rarest metals on Earth for almost 10% less than the price of gold… Take a look at the… Read More

Whenever a company decides to pursue a growth-through-acquisition strategy, investors grow concerned. The payoff can be rapid growth and investors are certainly happy whenever that happens, but the risks are significant. Execution must be perfect, or hoped-for synergies will simply fail to materialize.  If that happens, then the stock could… Read More

I think it’s one of the market‘s biggest missed opportunities. Every day, millions of U.S. investors are missing out on the world’s highest-yielding securities. That’s because the vast majority of the world’s highest-yields aren’t found in the United States. Read More

I want to change how you think about the stock market. Let me explain… In the course of a month, we receive an enormous amount of emails from subscribers. And we read every single one of them. Read More

Natural gas prices have been depressed for just a few years, but it feels like a lot longer. Numerous analysts (myself included) have tried to spot the bottom for this clean, abundant energy source, angling for the moment when supply comes down to… Read More