economy

It’s always a surprise when a brand we all grew up with goes out of business. Many outside the airline industry were surprised when Pan Am filed for bankruptcy; a …

For the past five years the stock market has been on a bull run that will go down in history as one of the easiest times to make money in …

There’s been a lot of good economic news lately and 2014 is shaping up with better returns than even the most optimistic forecasts predicted. After the heady days of 2012 …

“Federal and state laws should be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.” – Richard Nixon Bill Clinton might go down in history …

The U.S. economy once again crushed the naysayers in Q2 2014, soundly blowing away even my tepidly optimistic analysis. Earnings for the 490 companies comprising the S&P 500 that have …

The last time I said something good about the economy one of my readers called me delusional. Fortunately I didn’t let that opinion change my investment strategy and it paid …

Iraq. The Ukraine. Syria. Gaza. You name the hot spot. No matter how you slice it, the world’s in a bit of a mess, isn’t it? Right now we’re witnessing …

 Of course you know the stock market will eventually correct – don’t you? You certainly didn’t think it would continue to go straight up – or did you? The very …

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer You’ve heard the questions thousands of times throughout your life? …

Much chatter fills the air these days about the so-called “death” of publishing. Newspapers have either closed, or morphed from print to digital format; journalists and editors have been canned; …