It’s amazing…the questions I often receive from friends and clients.
They usually arrive from no fixed point of reference…phrased innocently and innocuously.
Like the time my Dad asked me if I thought silver bullion was a good investment.
This was so outrageously out of character for him even to consider…so it came as no surprise that he had […]
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents in 1899.
Perhaps apocryphal, this is the quote that keeps popping up whenever we wish to mock those who have closed minds as regards scientific innovation and invention.
So, lets run down the list, and you tell me in which of […]
Well…that was quick.
It was just a scant few months ago that risk averse investors dumped the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) emerging market stocks as global paralysis set in.
That was then and this is now.
Risk appetite is once again fashionable, as evidenced by the meteoric rise of these bellwether markets from their market lows.
I can […]
What a run the markets have had these past four weeks.
But is this the real deal…or just a relief rally as hedge funds and speculators rush to cover their short positions?
Old timers will tell you that the third time is a charm…the third market bottom, that is.
We had the end of year rally off the […]
Finally…I found one upside to the downslide.
Even when you totally mess up..you can always serve as a bad example to others.
With both our equity and real estate markets in peril, let’s see how that worked the last time around.
Everyone wants to compare the current crisis with the 1930’s depression, but we have a much more […]
In which we compare and contrast the pragmatic tax policy of a world class economy with the ideologically driven tax policy of another such economy.
Both China and the U.S. stock markets tanked last year, but this year China has come roaring back to life….while we continue to tank in response to the incoherence of the […]
We are now sixteen months into our bear market, and fourteen months into our recession.
And if we give in to our worst impulses, we can lengthen both well beyond their normal, allotted lifespan.
I’m referring to the dangerous turn towards protectionism and the open hostility to free trade.
It crops up in several manifestations.
During last year’s campaign, […]
The Blue Jeans Millionaire blog will celebrate its first anniversary this month.
I thought you might enjoy a different take from someone who has been prognosticating markets and trends for a much longer time, for well over 20 consecutive years to date.
In the investment community, Byron Wien is a legend for his fearless, and […]
