This year has certainly been a wild ride for investors, the volatility in the market has been extraordinary, we’re “officially” in a recession and the financial landscape has been dramatically altered. But we’ve been here with you through it all, giving you our best advice. Today, and in several other posts, I’m going to re-print [...]

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So what’s a potential leader? I could write about some of the (very few) stocks that are hitting new peaks–only 14 stocks hit new peaks on the NYSE and Nasdaq on December 18, for instance–but instead, I’m highlighting a company with huge growth, a big story, and whose stock is in the sixth week of [...]

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Now on to my real passion–the market, which has been acting better the past few weeks. It’s been shrugging off bad news. It’s been reacting positively to good news. And all this positive action was happening even before last week–before the Fed’s big move. Let me be blunt: I believe the Fed’s change in stance, [...]

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about an out-of-the-box solution to part of our Social Security problem–that is, how to pay for so many benefits as our population ages and lives longer.
 
I received many great responses, but most of the critical ones centered around one idea, which is espoused by the following two emails:
 
“OK so [...]

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I recently had the opportunity to talk to one of ours editors who you don’t hear from regularly in Cabot Wealth Advisory, Thomas Garrity, editor of Cabot Small-Cap Confidential. Today I’ve got a Q&A to share with you about why Tom prefers to invest in small-caps, what he thinks the best investment strategy is now [...]

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