I am willing to bet that more than a few readers have experienced the painful medical condition that I suffered about a decade ago.  It started soon after the birth of my son. I was awakened in the middle of the night with a searing pain in my abdomen that radiated up into my chest. At first, I was terrified, thinking I was having a heart attack.  Fortunately, the hospital was less than a mile away from our home. I decided to drive myself to the emergency room to avoid waking my family.#-ad_banner-# The emergency room personnel determined that the… Read More

I am willing to bet that more than a few readers have experienced the painful medical condition that I suffered about a decade ago.  It started soon after the birth of my son. I was awakened in the middle of the night with a searing pain in my abdomen that radiated up into my chest. At first, I was terrified, thinking I was having a heart attack.  Fortunately, the hospital was less than a mile away from our home. I decided to drive myself to the emergency room to avoid waking my family.#-ad_banner-# The emergency room personnel determined that the source of the pain wasn’t my heart and that there was nothing wrong with my gastrointestinal region. By that time, the pain had faded, and the hospital gave me a clean bill of health, along with a prescription for painkillers.  Several days later, the debilitating pain returned. It lasted a few hours and then began to fade again.  This began to occur at least once a week, and I visited several medical facilities to determine the cause. No one was able to diagnose the cause, and painkillers remained the only solution to help me stay functional when the pain started. … Read More

I am willing to bet that more than a few readers have experienced the painful medical condition that I suffered about a decade ago.  It started soon after the birth of my son. I was awakened in the middle of the night with a searing pain in my abdomen that radiated up into my chest. At first, I was terrified, thinking I was having a heart attack.  Fortunately, the hospital was less than a mile away from our home. I decided to drive myself to the emergency room to avoid waking my family.#-ad_banner-# The emergency room personnel determined that the… Read More

I am willing to bet that more than a few readers have experienced the painful medical condition that I suffered about a decade ago.  It started soon after the birth of my son. I was awakened in the middle of the night with a searing pain in my abdomen that radiated up into my chest. At first, I was terrified, thinking I was having a heart attack.  Fortunately, the hospital was less than a mile away from our home. I decided to drive myself to the emergency room to avoid waking my family.#-ad_banner-# The emergency room personnel determined that the source of the pain wasn’t my heart and that there was nothing wrong with my gastrointestinal region. By that time, the pain had faded, and the hospital gave me a clean bill of health, along with a prescription for painkillers.  Several days later, the debilitating pain returned. It lasted a few hours and then began to fade again.  This began to occur at least once a week, and I visited several medical facilities to determine the cause. No one was able to diagnose the cause, and painkillers remained the only solution to help me stay functional when the pain started. … Read More

I am willing to bet that more than a few readers have experienced the painful medical condition that I suffered about a decade ago.  It started soon after the birth of my son. I was awakened in the middle of the night with a searing pain in my abdomen that radiated up into my chest. At first, I was terrified, thinking I was having a heart attack.  Fortunately, the hospital was less than a mile away from our home. I decided to drive myself to the emergency room to avoid waking my family.#-ad_banner-# The emergency room personnel determined that the… Read More

I am willing to bet that more than a few readers have experienced the painful medical condition that I suffered about a decade ago.  It started soon after the birth of my son. I was awakened in the middle of the night with a searing pain in my abdomen that radiated up into my chest. At first, I was terrified, thinking I was having a heart attack.  Fortunately, the hospital was less than a mile away from our home. I decided to drive myself to the emergency room to avoid waking my family.#-ad_banner-# The emergency room personnel determined that the source of the pain wasn’t my heart and that there was nothing wrong with my gastrointestinal region. By that time, the pain had faded, and the hospital gave me a clean bill of health, along with a prescription for painkillers.  Several days later, the debilitating pain returned. It lasted a few hours and then began to fade again.  This began to occur at least once a week, and I visited several medical facilities to determine the cause. No one was able to diagnose the cause, and painkillers remained the only solution to help me stay functional when the pain started. … Read More

After its notable rally off the late June lows, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) began to top out in the second half of September. After trading sideways to slightly lower for a couple of weeks, the stock gapped down 5.6% on the morning of Sept. 11, the day after it announced of… Read More

Over the past year, as we’ve grown more accustomed to simply speaking requests into our smartphones, we’ve started typing less and less.  It’s a subtle shift right now, but in coming years, futurists predict we’ll be dictating our emails, tweets, text messages and documents, as punching letters into a keyboard… Read More

Recently, I had the privilege of test-driving a new Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) electric sports car.  Growing up in the gearhead culture of Pittsburgh, I wasn’t expecting to be impressed. My uncle’s business sponsored a drag-racing team, and I spent many Sunday afternoons watching from the sidelines as an elementary school… Read More

One company makes wireless chips for Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone. Another company helps finance silver mining projects in exchange for a future piece of the action. A third owns and operates utility, transportation and energy businesses around the world. The common denominators? Each has rewarded investors with market-trouncing gains in… Read More

Over the past year, as we’ve grown more accustomed to simply speaking requests into our smartphones, we’ve started typing less and less.  It’s a subtle shift right now, but in coming years, futurists predict we’ll be dictating our emails, tweets, text messages and documents, as punching letters into a keyboard… Read More

When short sellers start circling the wagons, they can drive a stock down and keep it down for quite some time.  That goes even for a company that has no debt — and has been consistently increasing shareholders’ equity.  One such company also has high margins and generates impressively high… Read More

While working at an investment magazine back in the 1990s, I profiled a young technology company with a very intriguing product. This company had a small sales base and struggled to make profits, but its device, which could… Read More