Special Reports
Special Report: 10 long-term picks for a short-term market (first seven picks)
(A word of apology. I hadn't realized that I had written about this Special Report but never posted it until several readers brought it to my attention last week. My initial reaction was "Impossible! Of course I'd posted it." But checking showed I hadn't. It took...
Special Report: Are you ready for the next Big One? A 5-Step Portfolio Strategy–Part 1, the odds of a Recession or Credit Crunch, Step #1 Foundation Buys, Step #2 Sectors to Sell, Step #3 More Hedges, Step #4 Rebelancing
Is a Recession coming? I don't mean "someday." Someday the sun will go nova but I don't need to price that in to my investment strategy. But a Recession in 2020 or 2021? That's something to take into account. And to prepare for to the degree possible. Or a Credit...
Bonus Special Report: My Five Picks for Bottom Fishing
I've finished my Special Report 5 Value Picks for a Market at Record Highs. (The five picks, for the record were Disney (DIS), DuPont (DD), Constellation Brands (STZ), China Mobile (CHL), and Tyson Foods (TSN). You can find this special report with information on each...
Disrupted Sector #3 in my Special Report 5 Sectors Facing Disruption: Anything touched by 5G (and some winners too)
There's a consensus on Wall Street that the roll out of 5G wireless technology will be a hugely disruptive event. 5G is the successor to 4G (well, like, Duh) Â the current standard for network technology introduced commercially in 2009. 5GÂ could end up being 100 times...
Bonus Special Report: 5 Value Stocks in a Market Near All-Time Highs
The Standard & Poor's 500 closed at a new all-time high on June 20 at 2954.18. It's easy in today's market to find stocks trading at astronomical price to earnings ratios. Amazon (AMZN) sell for 79.90 times trailing twelve-month earnings per share. Netflix (NFLX)...
Special Report: 10 Best Picks for the Last Six Months of 2019
This isn't  time for investing as usual. As whacky as the first half of 2019 has been--the Federal Reserve embraces interest rate cuts, the U.S. and China descend further into a trade war, the U.S. economy turns in better than 3% growth but fears for a slowdown in...
Special Report:Â The Crisis in Global Capitalism and 5 Ways to Position Your Portfolio–Part 1 The Crisis in Global Demand
Finally, Part 1 The Crisis in Global Demand, from my Special Report: The Crisis in Global Capitalism and 5 Ways to Position Your Portfolio. On May 29, U.S. stocks took another step lower with the Standard & Poor's 500 closing down 0.69% at 2783. Â News reports on...
Bonus Special Report: 5 Profit Winners from Disrupted Sectors–# 1 Parsley Energy
When I set out to research and write my recent Special Report Five Sector Facing Disruption That Could Crush Your Portfolio I wanted to focus on the "destruction" side of the process of "creative destruction" that makes up economic growth in our capitalist system. The...
Special Report: 5 Sectors Facing Disruption That Could Crush Your Portfolio–#1 autos, #2 oil, #3 5G
As Monty Python's Flying Circus so memorably admonished, Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition. But investors should expect disruption. Thanks to the missionary work of Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, Wall Street, capital markets, and investors all know...
Special Report Bonus: 5 stocks to buy on any plunge–all five picks
My thesis--the one I argued in my Special Report: 10 dangerous stocks for this earnings season--is that the earnings season for the first quarter that begins on April 12 with reports from the Big Banks is likely to be especially volatile. And stock that misses analyst...
Special Report: 10 Most Dangerous Stocks in Earnings Season–first nine picks
That famous futures trader Marc Antony famously said "Beware the Ides of April." Okay, the guy had a mixed performance record. Short Brutus but long Cleopatra. But his advice about April 2019 is good. The Ides of April fall on the 13th of the month. And what promises...
Special Report: 10 Stock Picks for a Market Worried about an Earnings Recession–all 10 picks
The U.S. stock market is worried about an economy recession--two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth--and an earnings recession--two consecutive quarters of negative growth for the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500. Neither is certain. But of the two an...
Special Report: 10 Best Buy Stocks for after the bear (or for now if you think the bear is over.)
Is the bear market over? And if it is, what stocks should you target as "best buys." The first is a really, really tough question to answer now. News of new efforts to stimulate economic growth in China helped push the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index over...
Completely and newly revised for the bear: Special Report How to Protect Your Portfolio Without Selling Your Portfolio
This Special Report was revised--extensively- on December 21. When I posted the first version of this Special Report back in November, the bear market was just a possibility--although a highly likely possibility--and my best projection on how the market would develop...
Special Report: Global Warming and Your Portfolio: Is Your Portfolio ready?
$23 trillion. It's a big enough number to get my attention. On Monday, December 10, 415 investment managers, pension funds, and insurers, told the ministers gathered for the United Nations climate summit in Katowice, Poland, that the world faces a financial crash...
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