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...

If you’re a 10-pound teddy bear kind of puppy, survival and welfare depend upon loving parents. After a thorough probing of our...

I own my share of Microsoft and Amazon. They're luxuries but, then I draw the line. None of these such growthies selling at 60, 70 times...

No reason to believe in America 365 days out of the year. Actually, tapping into my margin buying power early on when I had little to...

Start with the premise that there’s no place to hide. You can lose serious money on a high dividend blob like General Motors. A faulty...

It’s one thing to see a 5 dollar ragamuffin self-destruct, but, polite paper is fading up to 20%,  overnight. I’m talking Ford and...

Soft, gray twilight envelops the domes of Venice where I’ve found my way since I’m 19 now going on 93. Early days, you boated from...

When I talk to bond traders, their sole focus is whether the FRB will drop rates a quarter point day after tomorrow. Nobody cares about...

I never think about whether stocks we own are growth or value plays. They should only go up, outperform and make us rich or at least feel...

Serious slippage recently in prices for iconic art at auction scarcely made a ripple in financial markets. Traders stayed focussed on...

Santa Claus is a bourgeoise myth. Assume any foolish trades you make will cost you money under “ Murphy’s Law” “Whatever can go wrong,...

Before acting on any market forecast, especially from an economist, I’d ask to see his tax returns past several years. Was he a money...