Found 365 results
By Mike Larson On June 24, 202003:01 PM Eastern
“Everything is expensive.”
That’s how a Longview Economics strategist recently described this environment.
Why? Because more than 80% of the markets his firm tracks are overpriced — the most...
By Mike Larson On June 17, 202003:00 AM Eastern
For every borrower, there’s a lender.
But when discussing interest rate cuts, pundits and policymakers always focus on the benefits to the former ... NOT the costs to the latter.
And guess...
By Mike Larson On June 10, 202004:03 PM Eastern
How do you know when investors have completely lost their marbles?
J.C. Penney (OTC: JCPNQ, Rated “D”) jumped 96%.
Hertz Global Holdings (NYSE: HTZ, Rated “D-”) soared 114%.
And just for...
By Mike Larson On June 3, 202004:00 PM Eastern
The year 2020 is one for the record books.
Indeed, even the most macabre author of dystopian fiction would have been hard-pressed to conjure up the events we’ve seen so far — and the year isn’t...
By Mike Larson On May 27, 202004:29 PM Eastern
Will opening up the economy lead to a second wave of infections and shutdowns? Or is the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak behind us?
Will the nature of business investment and consumer spending be...
By Mike Larson On May 20, 202004:56 PM Eastern
Investing is a tough business. If it wasn’t, it’d be called “winning.”
The last thing you want to do is make things harder on yourself. And I feel like that’s what too many are doing in stocks...
By Mike Larson On May 13, 202005:13 PM Eastern
There’s a great divide in America today. And I’m not talking about politics. I’m talking about the rift between the “real” economy and the “asset” economy.
Suppose you hadn’t been watching the...
By Mike Larson On May 6, 202003:26 PM Eastern
Uncle Warren. The Oracle of Omaha. America’s greatest investor.
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has been called many things over the years.
After founding his insurance-dominated...
By Mike Larson On April 29, 202005:00 PM Eastern
First, the junk bond market boomed.
Next, it went bust.
Then, the Federal Reserve bailed it out.
Finally, that sparked a new mini boom.
More than anything else in recent weeks, THAT...
By Mike Larson On April 22, 202004:53 PM Eastern
This is the week the oil market imploded. And no, that isn’t hyperbole.
The benchmark price of a barrel of U.S. crude oil started trading in the high-teens early Monday. But before long, selling...