Grandma used to elbow me when the stock market was doing a fade-away. “I never promised you a rose garden,” she cackled. Meantime,...

Boeing’s latest self-inflicted wound on its 737’s so far has left its analysts' numb and silent. Let’s hope Boeing doesn’t land up valued...

Yes! I know. Economists term the market forecast where nothing much happens as the naïve forecast. But, it's possible quicksand is ahead....

I guess Sotheby’s would term me a well-healed player in the contemporary art market. My theme is perception, both in art and the...

I subwayed down to Wall Street, late fifties, when the market was topping out in terms of valuation. Next 20 years saw a progressive...

These managements need shaping up. They’re horrendous. They take money from the peasants, and then find mercenaries (lawyers) to protect...

In the good ole days, IBM was like a religious artifact. If wealthy, it lay in your vault, untouched for decades. Management initiatives...

The theme here is re-assertion of earnings power to previous peaks no more than two years out. I have taken already a major position in...

Despite the fractious market setting, honchos running billions, even trillions of assets didn’t make any notable changes in their...

OK! So I can’t spell. But, I’ve lived through some of the most harsh, bruising financial markets over the past 60 years, I wasn’t around...

Struggling through Berkshire Hathaway’s annual report, I suddenly realized that Warren Buffett didn’t want his readers to peruse too...

I am for better or worse mainly a contrary investor. Whenever I’m within the consensus I’d worry that I can’t possibly outperform the...

Aside from my traffic in junk bonds yielding over 7%. I normally steer clear of Treasuries as too polite and boring, a sector best left...

My years of religious warfare in the East Bronx dates back to early forties. As a 13 year-old. I sported quick fists and a dirty mouth...

That nothing changes in financial markets is called the naive forecast because markets intrinsically prove volatile, changeable, and...

(This piece responds to Donald Trump’s outburst that our fighting men resting eternally in our cemetery and memorial in Normandy were a...

Arise ye Prisoners of Starvation. As the market stutters I’m finding new untouchables to play. Couple of years ago, stocks like...

I revisited my old stats dating back 50 years ago when the U.S. was mired in deep recession, 1973–’74. Our expression then for the...

A wine advocate who chooses diversity in his inventory, and in tastings, puts any portfolio manager to shame. After all, a great wine,...

For those not around for the original Black Monday, lemme fill you in. First, digest this chart on gyrations in NASDAQ between 2000 and...