Being in the right place at the right time can be rewarding, especially when it comes to investing. Being in the right asset class, the right country or even the right sector when they… Read More

I recently heard from an old friend. He told me of his battle with colon cancer. His doctors had given him a 30% chance of surviving, but thanks a new generation of powerful anti-cancer drugs, his cancer has been in remission for nearly five years now. You probably know someone… Read More

My friend’s grandfather dabbled in real estate and land speculation nearly his entire life. He left a substantial amount of farmland to his heirs, but this land never appreciated much, wasn’t great for farming and didn’t produce… Read More

As we head toward Memorial Day weekend, summer travel plans are being discussed around many kitchen tables. Americans are hitting the road again, packing hotels in major cities as some national parks brace for a record number of visitors. Many conversations in foreign languages… Read More

In case you couldn’t tell from the gasoline prices in your area, oil prices have been on the move. The chart below pretty much says it all. As you can see, benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude has seen substantial… Read More

The Wall Street crowd is starting to get the picture.   On the cover of a recent issue of Fortune magazine: “The Death of Cash,” an article… Read More

If the recent stock market sell-off teaches anything, it is that building a successful portfolio requires much more than randomly picking stocks. In the topsy-turvy world of… Read More

There isn’t a lot of good economic news to go around these days. In the final year of President George W. Bush’s second term and in the first two years of President Barack Obama’s first term, the… Read More

I’d bet most income investors know about the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index. To be included in this index, an S&P 500 company must have raised its… Read More