Believe it or not, one of the biggest victims of falling energy prices has been the recycling industry. The problem is that, from a bottom line perspective, recycling doesn’t always make economic sense when commodities are cheap. Take Waste Management Inc. (WM),
February 20, 2016
Hyperinflation is not an unusual phenomenon. 32 countries have experienced hyperinflation over the last 100 years of which no less than 21 have experienced it in the past 25 years and 3 in the past 10 years. The United States is
Matt Klein has defended the calculations in the Friedman study of the Sanders plan as “not extreme”. In particular he has used this graph to show that 5.3% sustained growth will only close the output gap toward the end of the projection period.
The worldwide collapse in commodity prices is now working its way through the financial markets in Canada. Canada is just now experiencing fundamental changes in the financial community, the sector better known as F.I.R.E. (Finance, Insurance and Real Estate). This sector accounts for approximately 20% of national
We’ve had some choppy markets and that’s fine by me. Great investors love uncertainty because volatility equates to opportunity. Selling or shorting into volatile euphoria and buying into panic is a time-tested, wealth creating strategy. On the other hand, when
This past Tuesday, a California judge ordered the tech giant Apple Inc. (AAPL – Analyst Report) to provide assistance for the F.B.I. to unlock an iPhone used by one of the attackers in the San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 people this past December.
One of easiest bets in history was that UK prime minister David Cameron would accept any offer he received to stop “Brexit”. So after marathon negotiations in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a Time Out to Eat Belgium Fries, Cameron
Before investing in any common stock I believe it’s imperative to know as much about the business behind the stock as you possibly can. However, there are only so many businesses that an individual investor can know anything about. On
Of all the indicators that the Fed has presented to justify its rate hike mentality and to validate that the US economy remains on a growth path despite clear recessionary signals from both the manufacturing sector and the dramatic tightening
I used Barchart to sort the stocks that Value Line Investment Survey Small & Mid Cap ranked 1 & 2 first for the highest technical buy signals, then I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Today’s featured stocks
