Whenever markets get like they are now, everyone loves to talk cash – cash on hand, cash coming off the sidelines, going to cash, cash, cash, cash. Watch any financial news show on cable, and it won’t be long before you hear it mentioned.
This is one o…

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As some of the tech darlings have fallen rather sharply over the past couple of months, I begin to get the inevitable questions about the wisdom of buying these market darlings.
Everyone just assumes that because I am an investor, I care about these s…

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Big banks are the field generals of the U.S. economy, and this “rank” makes their insights extremely valuable for those looking to make a killing from the small soldiers known as community banks.

Here’s Tim Melvin with the details…

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I have had my moments of stupidity over the years. (The 1970s stand out as a period where I excelled at really dumb stuff.) Taking the Patriots over the Giants and giving points in the 2008 Super Bowl was dumb. My early spring wager on the Orioles making the wild card doesn’t look so smart as we sit here in August either.

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Hedge funds were supposed to be the ultimate “insider” investment vehicle. Managers would be able to do whatever they wanted – go long, go short, buy bonds, buy commodities, or do whatever they thought was necessary to earn high returns for their inves…

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Earlier this month, BlackRock Inc. reported fantastic earnings for the first quarter of 2018, surpassing Wall Street’s expectations on nearly every metric.
Now, BlackRock is the largest money manager on the face of the earth, so any sane individual int…

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Tim Melvin watches private equity players like a hawk – they always get the best prices and the highest return.

What he sees now, though, is worrying – an equity crash lurks in the wings.

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Everybody loves exchange-traded funds (ETFs) these days.

There are a mind-boggling 2,000 ETFs, give or take, in the United States today. Roughly 70% of those are equity funds.

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I don’t want to get into one of my “commercialization of Christmas” rants, but my biggest issue with the whole Christmas shopping season is that Americans fall for this blatant scam every single year.

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