It’s no secret Wall Street was, for the most part, rooting for Mitt Romney to win the presidential election. After all, Republican candidates are generally viewed as more business friendly, and Romney was no exception. But even if you believe President Barack Obama’s… Read More

The markets still are largely digesting the big post-election sell-off, but it’s not so much the reelection of President Barack Obama that’s got everyone on Wall Street nervous. Rather, the biggest source of tensions fraying the nerves of traders is the potentially disastrous… Read More

The presidential election is over, but another day of reckoning approaches. A “fiscal cliff” consisting of major tax increases and spending cuts is quickly approaching. And with it, a broad swath of investments ranging from stocks and… Read More

Jim Rogers, legendary commodities investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund along with George Soros (a legend in his own right), has been looking at the pace of money printing in the developed world. And he doesn’t like what he sees. In fact, the legendary investor was recently quoted as… Read More

Jan. 1, 2013, is less than 60 days away and many are wondering how the so-called “fiscal cliff” will play out. Could this scenario be as severe as economists and investors believe? What steps, if any, will Congress take to avert disaster?#-ad_banner-# Last August, when Congress and the White House agreed… Read More

For centuries, land has been the status symbol for wealth and power. In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that you couldn’t even vote without being a property owner. Of course in those days, just like today, certain locales were far more desirable than others.  When President Thomas Jefferson dispatched… Read More

Let’s face it. The so-called fiscal cliff has us all worried.#-ad_banner-# It is nothing to trifle with; it will be driven by the expiration of almost every tax cut enacted since 2001, as a whole commonly referred to as the Bush-era tax… Read More

With every passing day, the risks are rising that Washington will soon create real havoc in the U.S. economy. The “fiscal cliff” set of measures that was agreed upon many months ago is now just seven short weeks away. To hear… Read More

Thanks to an economy that is a bit healthier than it was a few years ago, voters handed President Barack Obama the keys to the White House for four more years. As a re-elected incumbent who campaigned on a platform of “stay… Read More

While modern-day investing can’t be considered easy, it’s not necessarily difficult either. The secret to success is usually just avoiding the small mistakes that end up costing big bucks.  With this in mind, here are the five most common pitfalls investors should make a point of avoiding no matter how… Read More