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10 Ways to Beat Phone Scammers December 18, 2018 Privacy Invasion “A pestilence.” “Deserving of a fate worse than death.” “A curse on all their houses.” Those were some of the comments regarding last week’s article, about the scammers responsible for the epidemic of scam phone calls. To recap: By mid-2019, half of all U.S. phone calls will be scams. Ninety percent of those calls will […]
Petroleum: The 2019 Breakout Sector That Pays High Dividends December 17, 2018 Oil Big pipeline stocks are poised to breakout in 2019. The United States has over 200,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products around the country. That’s long enough to wrap around the earth over nine times! If we add in the natural gas pipelines, it could wrap the earth […]
Small Business Owner Optimism is Decreasing December 17, 2018 U.S. Economy Forecasts are hard to make. But profits tend to rely on forecasts. For a small business, it’s important to forecast well. If there are too many customers and not enough inventory, the business can fail. Too much inventory can also lead to failure. Hiring plans and inventory depend on future expectations. Owners might get it wrong, […]
This Is 2018’s Market Narrative of the Year December 14, 2018 Global Economy The narrative is the main idea that guides how we think about the markets. And how we think about the markets is equal to how we invest.
Traders Ignored the Fed Chairman’s Warning December 13, 2018 U.S. Economy Traders were right that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's recent speech was important. But buying stocks was the wrong reaction.





