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Tuesday’s guest on CNBC’s Fast Money program made a case for the first 5 trading days of 2014 being huge for January, and for

I sat down this morning to my iPad thinking that I’d write a bit about New York City’s new mayor. I was going to

After a year like 2013—assuming the market doesn’t drop 30% tomorrow—it’s easy for investors to lose perspective. As is always the case after a

Extended unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people expired yesterday. This morning, while thinking about what I might say in a television interview on the

In his 2012 book The Sector Strategist, Timothy McIntosh explains who ultimately bears the burden of over-regulation. From page 130: Despite this enhanced government

There are three dozen or so coots foraging for their breakfast this morning about 50 feet beyond the edge of our backyard—I’m guessing the

Let’s do a little hypothetical: Let’s say you own a rental house that you paid $100,000 for back in 2006 and that you receive

…the evidence offered up by those so concerned with income inequality (I’m more concerned with improving the fortunes of the less fortunate without regard

As I’ve stated multiple times here recently, stocks today, in my view, are no longer cheap, nor are they expensive. Meaning, if earnings pick up next