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Japan’s Economy Remains Resilient: 5 Great Picks

Japan’s Economy Remains Resilient: 5 Great Picks

Japan’s economy grew faster in the last quarter of 2017 than initially estimated, according to a revised estimate. The world’s third-largest economy has now expanded for eight straight quarters. This marks the longest run of growth in 28 years, since a 12-quarter expansion ended in 1989, a period which coincided with Japan’s economic bubble. The […]
Value Investing Offers The Biggest Bang For Your Retirement Buck

Value Investing Offers The Biggest Bang For Your Retirement Buck

Have you ever heard of the term “torpedo stocks”? If you’re currently saving for retirement by buying stocks, this is a term that you should definitely be familiar with. In my last article on Modest Money, I discussed the pitfalls of index fund investing. In my view, index funds are likely to lead to pain, rather than […]
Buying Stocks Doesn’t Make You An Investor

Buying Stocks Doesn’t Make You An Investor

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – We continue our exploration… …of why the stock market is a fraud… …why investors’ savings are not really funding U.S. business… … why instead, they are aiding and abetting a multitrillion-dollar rip-off… …and how the ripper-offers are going to get what’s coming to them, good and hard. Trade Controversy But first, we […]
Stock And Bond Markets – The Augustine Of Hippo Plea

Stock And Bond Markets – The Augustine Of Hippo Plea

Lord, Grant us Chastity and Temperance… Just Not Yet! Most fund managers are in an unenviable situation nowadays (particularly if they have a long only mandate). On the one hand, they would love to get an opportunity to buy assets at reasonable prices. On the other hand, should asset prices actually return to levels that […]
The Return Of The Perfect Payrolls

The Return Of The Perfect Payrolls

Over the past two days, Chinese exports exploded, US payrolls bested 300k, and China’s CPI recorded the hottest inflation in 5 years. Globally synchronized growth? It’s times like these where remembering how nothing goes in a straight line helps settle and ground interpretations. In thinking that way already, you are never surprised when there are […]
Double Your Money This Year With Gold Miners

Double Your Money This Year With Gold Miners

The best buy in the natural resource space today is gold miners. Period. These stocks are too cheap. If you took their fundamentals and put them in any other sector, they’d be a screaming buy. But gold miners are out of fashion today. I told this story at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada […]
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                        Foot Locker Is A Strong Buy

E Foot Locker Is A Strong Buy

Foot Locker (FL) stock is a buy. It is cheap, it is set to improve significantly in 2018, and it pays a juicy dividend that is yielding over 3.5%. The stock, however, has been slammed recently: Source: Yahoo finance. This is a painful drop. But why did this happen? This came from an overreaction to […]
Record 1 Million Full And Part Time Jobs Added

Record 1 Million Full And Part Time Jobs Added

While the headline payroll print of 313K was impressive, a look under the cover reveals even stronger data: first, the Household Survey showed that a whopping 785K jobs were added in February, while the number of unemployed Americans rose by only 22K, and with the labor force rising by 806K, this explains why the unemployment rate remained […]
Forget “Free Trade”- It’s All About Capital Flows

Forget “Free Trade”- It’s All About Capital Flows

In a world dominated by mobile capital, mobile capital is the comparative advantage. Defenders and critics of “free trade” and globalization tend to present the issue as either/or: it’s inherently good or bad. In the real world, it’s not that simple. The confusion starts with defining free trade (and by extension, globalization). In the classical definition […]
Bitcoin Technical Analysis & Update – Friday, March 9

Bitcoin Technical Analysis & Update – Friday, March 9

I explain what is going on with my hiatus as well as present Bitcoin analysis from 3/8 & today 3/9. Video Length: 00:06:07