August 17, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Part 2: Rethinking the strategies for retirement. Over the years, investors and money managers have developed back of the envelope formulas for thinking about investing for retirement. These rules have been around for most of the nearly 40 years I've been writing...
August 11, 2020 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
I’m going to divide this Special Report: How to meet your retirement challenge” into three parts. Today, Part 1 outlines the problem, its causes, and its likely duration. Tomorrow, Part 2 looks at the way the crisis has upended rules and assumptions about how to invest for retirement. Part 3 gives you concrete strategies and investment recommendations for meeting the crisis. You’ll find all 3 parts in this post (finally).
July 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, NJDCY, Top 50 Stocks |
I can't imagine the world avoiding a global warming catastrophe without a sizable contribution from reduced carbon emissions as we replace vehicles powered by fossil fuels with electric vehicles. (Yes, this is to some extent a solution that merely pushes the problem...
July 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Special Reports |
According to John Lennon, "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans." That's also true of the global warming. Â ("Climate change," if you want, but I prefer "global warming" because heat is the fuel driving climate change whether the change is...
June 26, 2020 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
My fourth pick in my Special Report "10 Stocks to Beat Amazon" is a biotech, Seattle Genetics (SGEN). Biotech companies spend years developing their first successful drug. And then spend more years turning that first drug into a pipeline of drugs and expanded labels....
June 19, 2020 | Daily JAM, ISRG, Top 50 Stocks |
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June 16, 2020 | AMZN, Daily JAM, Special Reports, Top 50 Stocks |
Amazon (AMZN). Maybe you've heard of it. It's been one of the great stocks of the best--well, however long. As of June 15, Morningstar puts the stock's 15-year return at an average of 33.11% a year. That's the kind annual performance that you need to show to be a...
June 12, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Sorry for the delay. My deepest apologies. My daughter graduates high school on Monday and things have been a bit chaotic (with excitement) in our house this past week. Go Class of 2020! To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some...
April 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
Just about everybody agrees that the world after the coronavirus pandemic and recession will look very different. And from what I've read every stock market guru worth his or her smart phone agrees that buy the stocks of companies that are "attuned" to that different...
April 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter |
President Donald Trump has made it clear that his preference is to re-open the economy by May 1. Administration officials including economic advisors Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro, and Attorney General William Barr have taken to repeating the mantra "The cure can't...
April 8, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, Special Reports |
Part 1: The ups and downs of the Bear In digging into the historical record of Bear Markets--again--I've come to the conclusion that what you can say about a bear market with any hope of a degree of accuracy very much depends on your time scale. In the longest time...
March 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
The definition of a bear market is rather simple: It's a drop of 20% or more from the market high. By this standard we've recently moved into a bear market on all the major U.S. stock indexes--and indeed on all the major overseas indexes with the exception, for the...