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By , Forbes, 05/27/2013

I was recently asked how it is that I can regularly tout certain stocks because they’re cheap and at the same time recommend others at what seem to be selling at high valuations.

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By , Forbes, 05/15/2013

Amid the sturm und drang over IRS tomfoolery (I needn’t say “alleged” here, because in the best of times, the US tax code is steeped in tomfoolery), folks are missing a huge opportunity: Let’s just scrap whole darn thing.

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By , Forbes, 05/13/2013

China’s communist government and international humanitarian groups might seem like odd bedfellows, but they seem united in their dislike of the World Bank’s annual Doing Business survey—the 2013 survey is available now. For different reasons, of course.

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By , Equities.com, 05/08/2013

Imagine you’re running a country whose economy could perhaps use a bit of a boost. You could just spend some money on a few major construction projects, but you’d rather see domestic businesses grow more—especially since some have struggled to maintain high profit growth.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 05/06/2013

By now, you've likely heard of the woppping energy bonanza know as the Shale Revolution. Thanks to hydraulic fracturing (aka fracturing), the US is awash with cheap natural gas, giving energy firms a new source of revenue and businesses nationwide cheaper energy costs.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 04/30/2013

With Max Baucus (D-MT) announcing his retirement come 2014, expect gridlock to increase from here—an excellent thing.  Stocks prefer legislative inaction to the uncertainty inherent in looming material legislation.

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By , Forbes, 04/24/2013

Good(ish) news! Headline GDP since 2007 may get revised up a bit this July. However, it will (likely) be tied to GDP accounting changes by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), not an update to actual economic data.

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By , TheStreet.com, 04/17/2013

Over the years, many things have been wrongly cited as inflation drivers. High resource costs, low unemployment, high oil prices, extreme weather and even an economy with healthy demand have been falsely accused at times

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By , Forbes, 04/15/2013

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading–getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

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By , Forbes, 04/05/2013

The DJIA surpassed its prior peak to much fanfare recently, and the S&P 500 Price Index to less. (Oddly, zero attention was paid when the S&P 500 Total Return Index surpassed its prior peak fully a year ago.) With the eurozone economy still flirting with recession and US stocks outperforming much of the developed world of late, all eyes are on the US.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 04/03/2013

"Japan has run into a big wall...and we have turned invward looking. If Japan becomes the only one that turns inward, there is no chance for our growth. No businesses would want to invest in such a country and talented people would not be interested.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 04/01/2013

In every trade, there's a buyer and a seller.  Similaryly, in every loan, there's a borrower (debtor) and a lender (creditor)—pretty basic lesson, to be sure. But it's one that's often overlooked in discussion of what the Fed calls it's "extraordinary accommodative monetary policy"—essentially, quantitative easing (QE).

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By , TheStreet.com, 03/25/2013

There've been so many recent examples of nations making fiscal choices at odds with long-term economic aims, it's easy to miss choices aimed at wooing corporations and job creators to their shores.

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By , Equities.com, 03/22/2013

Cyprus, in case you haven’t heard, is in a tight spot. It needs €17 billion ASAP to keep paying the bills, otherwise it faces bankruptcy, disorderly default and—potentially—a eurozone exit.

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By , Forbes, 03/21/2013

What do sugar and pogo sticks have in common?

Not much, unless you want to use pogo sticks to illuminate a concept, broadly accepted by most of humanity, known as comparative advantage.

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By , TheStreet.com, 03/14/2013

Four years into the current bull, with sentiment waffling between skeptical and optimistic, it seems we're at least past the halfway point -- typically large-cap stocks' time to shine. Yet, small-caps have had a nice run lately, prompting many investors to ask: Will this countertrend rally stay, or will big stocks soon regain leadership?

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By , Forbes, 03/11/2013

Just days after this bull market’s fourth birthday, the S&P 500 is mere basis points from its all-time high of 1565.15.

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By , TheStreet.com, 03/08/2013

Twenty-three percent.  That's the average annualized return of the S&P 500 during the bull market that turns four this weekend (not including dividends). By that measure, the current ranks as the fifth strongest bull market since the S&P's 1926 inception.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 03/07/2013

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shouldn't have anything in common. The former stands for liberty and the rule of law, and he seems not to mind being subject to the electorate's whims. The latter's a proto-fascist who's waged war on freedom and wiped out many checks and balances on executive power.

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By , Forbes, 03/04/2013

Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 03/01/2013

In case you've been living in a bunker, the "sequester" (maybe) kicks in March 1.

I'm hoping it happens for one very specific reason: If the sequester proceeds, it robs politicians of a go-to wedge issue they can repeatedly dredge up as heated, campaing-fundraising fodder, then slap it with a sloppy Band-aid and push it out to another politically expedient future time.  Rinse, repeat.

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By , Forbes, 02/28/2013

What can Q4’s revised GDP growth tell us about the sequester? That it won’t impact overall 2013 economic growth much (if at all).

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By , Equities.com, 02/28/2013

If you haven’t paid much attention to Cyprus’s bailout negotiations, I suggest you start: There’s a plan afoot that could, if enacted, set a dangerous precedent for private property rights in the eurozone.

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By , Equities.com, 02/26/2013

President Obama’s recent State of the Union address likely sounded akin to any of his 2008 and 2012 campaign speeches for most folks: Support growth, create new jobs, boost investment, encourage green energy, promote free trade—all perfectly noble, seemingly good aims. (Whether they come to fruition and the shape they take remain to be seen.)

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By , Forbes, 02/25/2013

What can the UK expect after being downgraded? Almost certainly, lots of political finger-pointing and hyperbolic headlines. But also, quite possibly, lower interest rates

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By , Forbes, 02/22/2013

The Fed’s latest minutes showed the FOMC plans to maintain its “accommodative” stance until certain unemployment and economic targets are hit. Which is feeding some fear the Fed’s “easing” is inflating asset bubbles. (The quotes are intentional.)

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 02/15/2013

"The explanations for persistent inflation are many: uncontrollably rising wages; OPEC oil-price increases; droughts or poor harvests; large government budget deficits. The list of 'causes' of inflation changes with the circumstances. If we were to take them seriously, we would conclude that inflation may be caused by nearly everything. None of these causes, however, can explain inflation consistently over time or across countries."

 

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By , Forbes, 02/13/2013

The Fed's QE-infinity policy has raised concerns of an impending inflation spike.  To know whether such fears are warranted, it's important to understand what inflation is and what it is not.

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By , TheStreet.com, 02/13/2013

Most Asian markets are closed this week, but the region's far from quiet: It's the Lunar New Year! As folks everywhere celebrate with scrumptious feasts and red envelopes, we think it's a great time to see what's in store for China in the year of the snake.

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By , Equities.com, 02/13/2013

A question I’ve noted in the media of late: With sentiment noticeably more positive these days, should we be worried about the bull market’s imminent end?

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By , Forbes, 02/11/2013

The Big Easy. No, I’m not talking about the movie or New Orleans. I’m talking about my current approach to finding winning stocks.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 02/08/2013

There's a hot new trend in global banking these days: the ring-fence. A sort of Glass-Steagall lite, the ring-fence would force banks to build a Chinese wall between their retail and investment operations, separating each segment's assets, liabilities and management teams from the other.

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By , Forbes, 02/06/2013

It’s tough out there for a credit rating agency.

It appears S&P is being sued by the Justice Department. Lest anyone think this is payback for its downgrade of Uncle Sam, the suit will allege S&P played a key role in the 2008 credit crisis—issuing too rosy ratings on mortgage-backed securities and other collateralized debt obligations when they knew such securities were toxic.

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By , Forbes, 01/31/2013

US stocks ended January up 5.2%—their best start since 1997. So where are all the January effect headlines?

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By , Equities.com, 01/29/2013

New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe got his wish this week: The Bank of Japan (BOJ) boosted its inflation target to 2% (rebranding it as a “goal”) and committed to open-ended monthly asset purchases of ¥13 trillion ($143 billion) to get there. And all Japan’s problems were … complicated.

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By , Forbes, 01/29/2013

Last time, I wrote about four issues investors should remember in 2013. Now, here are three stories likely to hog headlines in 2013, but probably won’t have the big, negative impact many fear.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 01/29/2013

A record 7.9 million people tuned in for the recent US premier of Downton Abbey's third season—but if you ask me, that's far too few. The episode teaches a crash course in how not to invest—a course every investor on Earth should heed.

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By , Equities.com, 01/29/2013

New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe got his wish this week: The Bank of Japan (BOJ) boosted its inflation target to 2% (rebranding it as a “goal”) and committed to open-ended monthly asset purchases of ¥13 trillion ($143 billion) to get there. And all Japan’s problems were … complicated.

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By , The Street, 01/23/2013

Thanks to the joint efforts of the World Trade Organization and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the case for free trade got a whole lot stronger last week. 

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By , Forbes, 01/22/2013

Despite constant fears of a new recession, the US and global economies have grown for 13 straight quarters (likely 14, counting Q4). Not gangbusters, but growth is growth. And better-than-expected growth likely continues.

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By , Equities.com, 01/21/2013

With much of the world experiencing slower economic growth over the past year, I’ve seen a surge in the number of editorials forecasting a Japan-style “lost decade” in some nations. Based on a quick Internet search, the US, UK, Ireland and South Korea are just some of those purportedly at risk—sure, historically they’ve been resilient, but this time it’s different.

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By , Forbes, 01/21/2013

Negatives continue to abound. So why do I expect stocks to shine in 2013? Because I’m not a cow, I’m a bull. Let me explain: Most negatives you hear about are well known and widely discussed, digested and already priced into stocks.

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By , Investor's Business Daily, 01/17/2013

The Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB), an agency set up as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, has been tasked with the relatively unobjectionable aim of protecting consumers of financial products and services. Fair enough. No one really wants consumers to be unprotected. And yet, there are already lawsuits working their ways through the court system challenging the body's constitutionality. And to me, this is hardly surprising.

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By , Forbes, 01/15/2013

The short-lived debate over whether minting trillion dollar platinum coins could solve America’s fiscal restraint (or, rather, lack thereof) appears to have ended—the Treasury and Fed have both declared “no way." Which clears the way for a fresh debate on raising the debt ceiling the traditional way (i.e. the way it’s been done 105 times before).

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By , Forbes, 01/07/2013

How far must the S&P move to breach past highs?

It’s a trick question.

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