While many investors see options positions as a risky way to hit a big score, options are also used to protect against risk. They all need to come with warnings on the label. It is always curious to see people recommending options trading of any sort to individual investors, given how complex options trading is […]

The Congressional Budget Office now estimates that the cost of the coronavirus lockdown will be $7.9 trillion. We’re now debating how these costs will be borne. The economic crisis of 2020 is certainly a unique situation, and certainly deserves unique attention. We’re still guessing at what the total bill from this will end up coming […]

Times are really changing now, which we could describe as the disparity gap between the haves and have nots widening. Those who are stuck in the past will be more disadvantaged. It is not that seeing the disparity between good and not so good stocks widen is a new thing, as this has actually been […]

There is a movement afoot to coerce social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to censure content that they consider hate speech. This is very disturbing. Freedom of speech is essentially the real benchmark that measures how free a society is. This freedom is a more important principle of a free and democratic society […]

The AllianzGI Convertible Fund is touted by fund managers as producing better returns than stocks while having less risk. Don’t believe everything fund managers tell you. In spite of investors thinking that corporate bonds are generic, they do come in several different flavors, including convertible bonds. Convertible bonds are called that because they start out […]

Calls for reparations to be paid to black residents of the U.S. have been going on for a while. Their voices have become a lot louder now, even though the substance remains incredible. There is no question that black people in America have gotten a very raw deal for a very long time, starting from […]

With so many states so behind on their budgets due to the economic slowdown, the lure of increased tax revenue from legalizing Marijuana is starting to look even more tempting. Some investors are starting to get excited about the prospects of the expansion of the Marijuana market in the United States next year, and given […]

With the growth of the stock market in general thought to be dimming, and bond yields being so low, preferred stock is starting to look more attractive to many investors. One of the first things you learn when you study stocks is that there are two main types, common stock and preferred stock. Preferred stock […]

We are getting a real lesson in how economic downturns disproportionately effect those less well-off economically. We need to be very careful not to make this worse on purpose. It should not surprise us to learn that the current economic downturn caused by locking down our economy to attempt the slow the spread of COVID-19 […]

Once a dominant player in the oil and gas business, Chesapeake Energy is now barely breathing, with their stock now down 99.9% since 2008 and their market cap down to $129 million. This is not Chesapeake Energy’s first rodeo, as they have taken some very big falls before, almost losing their life, but this time […]