The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has just issued a warning that the debt situation has deteriorated considerably since last August. How much do we have to worry about this? A trillion dollars is not an amount that people can easily get their heads around. This is why people break this down on a per-capita basis, […]

Ralph Nader isn’t just a legend in his field, he stands far above anyone else. His field of expertise is not the stock market, although that isn’t stopping him from speaking out. You really had to be alive during Ralph Nader’s heyday to fully appreciate how big a force he was in consumer protectionism. He […]

Companies these days are borrowing at unprecedented rates, although the real threat here isn’t so much default as it is sacrificing future profits for shorter-term stock love. If you are holding stocks these days, which a lot of people are, you just have to love what companies are doing with their balance sheets in this […]

Seeing a company like Schwab running an ad encouraging investors to diversify by balancing stocks and stock sectors may not appear noteworthy, but it certainly is. Small children will often ask why when you tell them something, and as you try to explain it to them, they will often just keep asking why to get […]

IBM is being touted as a good defensive technology stock these days. They pay a very good dividend and isn’t as volatile as many tech stocks. Does this make it a good defensive play? Given that a lot of investors are at least a little skittish about the risk that holding stocks involved, and given […]

The stock market seems to be coming down with a virus right now, and while people aren’t that concerned about this one, we can still take a little medicine for these things. With the threat of the coronavirus in China increasing, it isn’t really that surprising that U.S. stocks are starting to come down with […]

Just about all of the analysts are calling for only single-digit returns for stocks in 2020. We shouldn’t just take their word for this though, and look into the matter more deeply. The much more modest outlook for the stock market that just about everyone is predicting for the coming year is actually pretty easy […]

If anyone was wondering what the all-time worst stock recommendation was, this would certainly promote a lot of discussion, at least up until now. People need to wonder no more. We definitely need to pay attention to where we enter a trade, and trade here just means entering a position of any expected duration. Our […]

When a stock has lost 80% of its value since last March, and with some analysts forecasting another 50% decline from here, we need to be careful if we want to jump on this. For whatever reason, cannabis stocks have captured the attention of investors in a way that is entirely disproportionate to their size […]

One of the legacies of economist Milton Friedman was the concept of stakeholder capitalism. People are now looking to modify this, but not in an intelligent way. While economics and politics share a lot of common ground, the biggest difference between them is that economics takes rationality into account, where politics is based primarily upon […]