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Rising Oil Prices Are Creating New Opportunities September 28, 2018 Global Economy Oil is going to $100. Bank on it. I know I’ve harped on alternative energy as the way of the future numerous times in the past. That’s still true. Alternative fuel cars are still going to dominate the roadways, even electric cars — Elon Musk’s run in with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won’t […]
Political Turmoil Creates a Tight Squeeze in Crude Oil September 28, 2018 Global Economy, Stocks The Wall Street Journal called me yesterday. A reporter wanted my thoughts on why the oil price “suddenly” started surging. I laughed. I couldn’t help it. You see, with all the other news stories out there about trade wars, tariffs, interest rates and the Kavanaugh hearing, the oil market was kind of forgotten in the […]
The Yield Curve Holds the Secret to the Market’s Health September 27, 2018 Stocks On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point and signaled yet another quarter-point hike before the end of the year. Notably, this is the first time the Fed funds rate — currently at 2.00% to 2.25% — has risen above the rate of inflation. The Fed’s preferred metric for inflation […]
Robot Sales Are Crushing Expectations September 26, 2018 Technology If we see equally high growth this year as we did in 2017, robot sales will have tripled in just six years. That’s an industry we want to invest in!
Cybersecurity Stocks Soar as Privacy Goes Mainstream September 25, 2018 Privacy Invasion Seeing the ad on TV made me realize that privacy has gone mainstream. Maybe that’s why cybersecurity is becoming a $1 trillion industry…





