Let’s go back to the whirlpool of wealth progression over the century. I don’t have the latest numbers, but my point of the  leveraging...

At yearend, it’s allowable to tot up your gains and losses on investments. If for no other reason than to confirm whether you should be a...

In “The Red Badge Of Courage,” Stephen Crane’s tersely written Civil War novel gets my money. The combatants fall like bundles. Don’t mix...

When I reviewed my charts on householder’s share of equity markets, I was surprised to see how low it gets when recessions hit the...

Over 60 years of trading.  I’ve rarely run a credit balance.  More likely, I’d be scrambling for capital, run a debit balance in stocks...

I can’t claim like Buffett, that I was in early on Coca-Cola or saw newspapers as a great franchise. I did at one point own a 20%...

I started off reviewing quarterly investment portfolios of the honchos with trillion dollar asset funds. Where were the guys managing...

The ratio of 60% equities, 40% fixed income product is time honored but dated in money management. Ask Warren Buffett. But, our major...

Based on election results, run out and buy Microsoft, Citigroup, Amazon and Goldman Sachs. The thinking is Trump won’t try to do anything...

For me, Tesla’s blow-out quarter is the final elevation point for this year’s market surprises. Looking at major sectors of the market...

As a kid, I housed my cache of baseball cards in a paper bag underneath my bed.  One morning as my mother was cleaning house she hit the...

First, my confession on Tesla. I wasn’t smart enough to buy it pre-earnings release and make a bunch,  overnight.  There are no...

Oops! There goes Tesla, down a bunch past Monday morning. Good earnings at our major banks sent JP Morgan up 10%.  We dwell in a no...

I dove back 50 years to track down GDP growth vs. the consensus. It’s fair to say that more often than not the consensus missed its...

The ideal growth stock sells closer to 20 times earnings. You shouldn’t think of buying a Magnificent 7 stock unless you believe its...

Actually,  the market is selling at 20 times earnings projection for 2025. If you believe there’s no pick up in earnings from today’s...

My title above is a child’s expression. We used to go door-to-door, begging for pennies, nickels and dimes. Neighbors were kind of...

Lemme confess to not knowing the name of our New York City’s mayor. The Big Apple’s been my home town for 93 years.  I’ve ridden the...

I miss the old muscle bound Fed churning like McChesney Martin who readily took away the punch bowl. Then, there was Paul Volcker who...

Before commenting on a bunch of 13f quarterlies by money managers, I’ll state my own construct which proved too conservative. The market...