People often ask me about my most profitable investment. It was an investment I made in October 1999. Today, it pays me a yield equivalent to 26%, and it has forever changed how I look for income opportunities. Read More

It’s always intriguing to look at the list of the most heavily-shorted stocks. Many investors like to see which companies are expected to tumble by various short-interest gauges. Owning these stocks long-term can give pause, and perhaps a reason to sell if short sellers’ arguments appear to be on the… Read More

The world economy may be struggling to recover from the depths of the Great Recession, but there are still pockets of the market that are seeing explosive growth. Demand for electronic… Read More

#-ad_banner-#Thanks to Lehman Bros., Bernie Madoff, Ivan Boesky, Dennis Kozlowski, Henry Blodget and many others, most investors have had enough. They simply don’t trust Wall Street and are convinced that the investing business is rigged for the benefit of those who know how to… Read More

I like to consider myself a contrarian investor. Zigging when others are zagging is usually the surest way to find underpriced stocks and avoid overheated ones that are due for a pullback.   But this time, the crowd just might be right. Read More

In the 1994 investment classic The Warren Buffett Way, author Robert Hagstrom delves into great detail on the stocks that catapulted Buffett’s fortune into what it is today. In the chapter describing Berkshire Hathaway’s primary holdings, he quotes Buffett as saying “I find that a long-term familiarity with a company… Read More

With all the changes to the United States’ energy landscape recently, it’s easy to overlook one of the country’s most important petroleum-producing regions: the Gulf of Mexico. For energy investors, drilling in the Gulf is hardly a new story. U.S. oil companies have been… Read More

Oh Argentina. Why must you frustrate us so? You’re blessed with so many resources and have so much charm. Yet you can’t help but alienate everyone that you come into contact with. #-ad_banner-#Over the last century, as nations such as Japan, South Korea, Brazil and China worked… Read More

In times past and even recently, I’ve heard investors criticize those who “play it safe” by holding shares of very large, well-established and slower-growing companies. Even though they often pay healthy dividends, such stocks just don’t deliver the returns of newer, smaller and faster-growing… Read More