From the monthly archives:
March 2008
Look, I don’t want to downplay what’s happening right now. I’m as mad about the way the government is handling this credit mess as anyone. I hate the fact that savers and investors are seeing lower and lower returns on their investments while greedy real estate speculators and financial bigwigs are getting bailed out [...]
I’ve been obsessed with dividend-paying stocks since the sixth grade. I’m not sure exactly what inspired me — it could have been the movie “Wall Street” or the popular T.V. show character Alex P. Keaton (played by Michael J. Fox) — but one day I came home from school and said I wanted to buy [...]
I sent this analysis to some friends in the “biz” last night, so I thought I’d share it with you …
Most investors – and consumers — have their eyes glued to the price of oil as it heads higher and higher. But here’s something you may not know. Since the beginning of the year, [...]
A weekly chart of oil shows crude in the process of making a breakout, and it could be big.
On Monday, oil surpassed the all-time record of $103.76 a barrel when adjusted for inflation. The previous record was $38, set in 1980 at the height of the U.S.-Iran hostage crisis.
Oil prices could top $300 per [...]
I don’t worry (too much) about the subprime credit crisis at Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and others. Sure, it could total $600 billion, but these are smart people who will figure a way out of the the problem they created. If they don’t, these companies will go bankrupt. Life will go on.
But [...]
