Yesterday, a predictible story in the New York Times intimated that those mean ole corporations are raising record amounts of cash --- but are hoarding it instead of investing it in new equipment, personnel and the like. Amazingly, the article...
Edward Jones FAs are a no-nonsense lot, who are proud of their simple buy-and-hold strategies. As we wrote back in January 2009, in our story, "Knock, Knock. Who's There? An Elated Jones Advisor" (about how Jones FAs canvass for clients by going...
Ted Nugent, the hard rock guitar player, is a great hunter and a Great American. In his rant today in the Washington Times (where he is a columnist), Nugent calls the federal government, Fedzilla, and describes it as the insatiable beast that...
Here is a fun read that Ed Hyman of ISI recently put into a research report. It's from a September issue of Time magazine. "The U.S. economy remains almost comatose. The slump ranks as the longest period of sustained weakness since the Depression...
With apologies to The Who, here is a refrain that will likely come true in a year or so: Meet the new subprime crisis, just like the old subprime crisis. That's because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government controlled mortgage companies that...
It's a pity that Steve Leuthold doesn't let everybody read his research. I know, I know . . . I frequently blog his opinions. But that's because he is interesting. Value in temperment and quantitative by training, Leuthold's researchers put out...
Actually, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is rated an outperform by the research group, but is an implied buy, really. We've always respected Sanford C. Bernstein, now owned these past many years now by Alliance Capital, and its top-qualilty research...
