What will happen? As the dust clears from the World Trade Center Towers, Pentagon, and others, what will happen? I can only guess, but being a man with logic tattooed on his brain, my sense of logic tells me the following will happen, economically at least, and if you will permit, the reason why. There […]

This piece entirely deals with what to do with dollars. Of course it can also apply to Francs, Pesos, Yen, Pounds, or what have you, depending on what the economic situations are in the nation in which you reside. I say this, because I receive e-mail from all over the world, even though I do […]

Whenever one makes an investment, it is smart to look at the upside and downside possibilities. To explain, look at the NASDAQ at 5,000. A quick look at the stocks that drove it to 5,000, indicated their potential was pretty meager, if the P/E (price earnings) ratios were checked. Many had zero ratios, and many […]

Economics 101, Logic 101, Physics 101, and every other “101,” says that what goes up, must come down, and furthermore, a balloon cannot be forever inflated, without it bursting. The way I see it, there are two bubbles or balloons. One has already burst: the stock market, NASDAQ in particular. The other bubble is inflating […]

Everywhere I look, it’s the GDP! Graphs and charts about the GDP, and the GDP forever. As if the GDP means something important. I say it doesn’t. Who cares? Why don’t I give a non copper penny about the GDP? I’ll tell you in succinct phraseology, to borrow a term from deceased Paul Ford, who […]

So said David V., a client of mine who, if there ever was someone in the thick of the financial world, it is he. David, on a daily basis, trades the big stuff, for a large New York company. He’s sharp, experienced, and savvy. He’s buying gold and silver as he watches the economic situation […]

I get a lot of things forwarded to me by clients and friends, and I, in turn do the same to them. I thank Jeff L for a story from the (London) Times of July 9th, whose headline is, “Share Selling By US Directors Reaches Record.” (A lot of times, the US media ignore stories […]

In a previous column, I noted that if you lived in the west, and loved old radio like I do, that you could tune in KNX, Los Angeles, 1070AM at 9PM and 2AM Pacific Time to hear an hour of old radio every night, 7 nights a week. The other night, I was listening to […]

(I had an e-mail letter from a reader of a previous piece, who was outraged when I called dishonest Abe Lincoln one of our worst presidents. I e-mailed him chapter 11 of my book “Consequences,” which covers the wrongly titled “Civil War,” and Abe pretty well. If you would like a copy of it, request […]

Most of us have insurance. Auto insurance especially, since accidents do happen, and one can never predict when some nutty, pimple faced, testosterone soaked, teenage male will attempt to test GM’s differential gears with his hopped up V-8, and lose control of it. Most of us have hospitalization, some have life insurance, (I hope not […]