Carbon is carbon. It may take the form of wood, sugar cane, algae, coal or dozens of other materials. But at the end of the day, the world still runs on processed carbon as a fuel source. That’s why venture capitalists have poured hundreds of millions — perhaps billions —… Read More

For readers who have not been following our newsletter editors for an extended period, it’s time to acquaint you with a longstanding policy: We never buy a stock for one of our portfolios for 2 trading days after you read about it. This means we’ll never front-run a stock, getting… Read More

This has been another year of extreme market volatility. In May, after rallying to a new multi-year high in the first four months of the year, the S&P 500 saw a sharp 9% pullback before retracing all those losses in June… Read More

With new technologies like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling unlocking natural gas from shale basins that were previously inaccessible, gas prices have plummeted over the past few years. Since 2008, the price of gas has fallen from a high above $13 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf) to today’s price of… Read More

I get many financial newsletters and investment advisories delivered via the old-fashion snail mail to my home, and even more via email. Although I take the investment gurus’ proclamations with a grain a salt, I still read the information for entertainment and to gauge… Read More

Market pundits talk about how the stock market climbs a “wall of worry,” a euphemism for the ability of stocks to go up even in the face of chronic problems in the… Read More

Gold bugs have a lot to be excited about right now… For the past couple of months, gold has been forming a consolidating triangle pattern. In the week of July 27, it finally made the move we’ve been waiting for. A… Read More

To set the stage for his most recent pursuit of “The Next Big Thing,” Andy Obermueller turned to something of an unusual source — the 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future.   No, the topic of the latest issue of Andy’s Game-Changing Stocks is not time travel. But… Read More

This year the U.S. Midwest is seeing the worst drought since 1956, sending corn prices soaring. In late June, I loaded up on the Teucrium Corn ETF (Nasdaq: CORN). Since then prices are up more than 20%.   The severe weather conditions… Read More

Rising energy prices, the threat of global warming, political instability in the Middle East and a host of other factors have made renewable energy methods such as solar and wind wildly popular in the past few years. But while there’s no question that green… Read More