As we all saw on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve made equal 25 basis point cuts to the Federal Funds Rate and the Discount Rate. While we are happy that core inflation is not going to be a large problem with this rate cut, and that we are easing rates in a growing economy where we just saw the U.S....

1. We have a new author! His name is Alex, and he's already published a great article on alternative energy that is getting some attention in the comments. View the great discussion over there. 2. People are signing up for the mailing list. Good. I still have no idea what we'll do with it. In the...

With oil prices hitting $92 a barrel and could possibly go higher, corn and soy ethanol are sounding pretty cheap and are beginning to be a real alternative, not just something we talk about. E85 can even be found for under $2.00 a gallon in cities scattered across the United States, where gasoline...

You may notice a new widget in the right sidebar. There's a little form for you to join our mailing list. Do it now, and then I'll tell you why. What do we mail out over our mailing list? Nothing yet. We're still figuring it out, but it will likely have to do with updates on what's going on with...

Marc Faber was on CNBC yesterday. You might not know him, but as I live in Switzerland he is the Warren Buffett of Switzerland. What I like about Marc is that he is both a speculator, investor and very much a realist. Yesterday he said the real problem was the financial industry that is in a...

Question: are we in a bull market or bear market? What if there was a third option? In Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-bound Markets, Vitaliy Katsenelson makes a case that the current market is actually a "range-bound market" and then gives you the tools to take full advantage of the...

Lots of hub bub in the poker community about some apparent cheating that has been going on at AbsolutePoker.com. Bobby has a nice comic about the cheating at PlusEV.net, and probably the best place to get info and updates is Absolute Poker Cheats blog that was setup just for the occasion. Traders...

You hear the news in the industry that you should buy global companies! Global companies with a weak dollar means more earnings! Folks, wrong, wrong, wrong! If you do the numbers quickly sure this argument sticks, but if you look a bit deeper then you will see the problems. The canary in the mine...

My father-in-law is nearing retirement and looking to get into some real estate plays to diversify his investments. I've already referred him to The Millionaire Maker: Act, Think, and Make Money the Way the Wealthy Do and Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at...

Barry said something about inflation and how Bernanke is not measuring it correctly. Then another blogger jumped on it and replied that Barry does not get it. The problem with this discussion is that it is a discussion of concepts and no illustrations. All right here is the discussion, what is...