Big Gains Ahead, Thanks to BP
Personally, I'm sick of BP. I don't care if they survive. But I am interested in making money off of BP's problems.
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Personally, I'm sick of BP. I don't care if they survive. But I am interested in making money off of BP's problems.
By Bob Irish | Wed, Jul 28, 2010
What do the following major brands have in common? Budweiser Lysol Ben and Jerry’s ice cream 7-Eleven Gerber baby food Brooks Brothers Motel 6 American Idol Wild Turkey bourbon If you said that they are all owned by non-U.S. companies, go to the head of the class. The United States represents only 30% of world stock market capitalization. Put another way, by not [...]
Do you recognize this man? It's Jamie Diamond, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and he's got plenty of reasons to be smiling. His bank still exists because of the taxpayer bailout. So, thanks to you and me, his paycheck last year wasn't bad. $16 million.
In the world of pop psychology, people are often divided into Type A and Type B personalities. An oversimplification, of course. Still, your “type” label says a lot about your approach to life. And guess what? It also says a lot about the way you approach investing. Type A personalities tend to be aggressive and impatient. [...]
By Bob Irish | Mon, Apr 26, 2010
Can you imagine turning a few hundred bucks into $900 in just three days? Or turning $360 into $720 in just seven days? Fantasy? Hardly. Some investors have found a way to book triple-digit gains without spending hours in front of a computer screen. Today, I’m going to show you how to be one of them. Time [...]
By Bob Irish | Wed, Apr 14, 2010
“Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.” Will Rogers’s observation on the stock market is as true today as it was over 70 years ago. It speaks to the type of investing most people [...]
By Bob Irish | Mon, Feb 1, 2010
Market pessimists have been playing the “what if” game for at least a year now. As in… What if inflation runs over the economy like yesterday’s road kill? What if the government raises rates too soon or too sharply? What if people are too strapped to start spending again? What if more banks fail? What if Ford’s and GM’s new [...]
By Bob Irish | Tue, Dec 8, 2009
As countries become more industrialized, their citizens consume more protein. Rising incomes enable consumers to move up the food chain and eat more grain-intensive foodstuffs, like milk, meat, and eggs. And that, says Dylan Grice, an analyst at Societe Generale, is exactly what we’re seeing in China.
By Bob Irish | Tue, Aug 10, 2010
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