“It’s a bad day… It’s like losing a family.” Cheryl Crimmins wiped away tears. The Borders bookstore where she was an assistant manager for 12 years had shut its doors for good. Stories like Cheryl’s are unfolding across the country… That’s because brick-and-mortar retailers are closing at record pace. Research firm Credit Suisse predicts there […]
If he’s right, Amazon will be the first $1 trillion U.S. company… Alex Moazed is the founder of Applico—a business transformation advisory firm. His company has created apps for Disney, DirecTV, and Google, and has advised dozens of clients on business transformation. Not long after starting Applico in 2009, Moazed worked on a project for […]
Quick question: Can you name the five biggest U.S. companies in 2017 by market capitalization? Take a moment to think about it… Did you guess General Electric (GE)? That would have been a good choice seven years ago. But the 125-year-old industrial conglomerate founded by Thomas Edison has fallen out of the top five since […]
Editor’s Note: In today’s Daily, our colleague Jeff Clark explains how following one of his favorite indicators can make you a better trader. Today, I’d like to share an idea that can make you a better trader. It’s the one indicator I follow more than any other when I want to know where the stock […]
Editor’s Note: In today’s special Daily, we’re sharing one of the most important essays on gold we’ve ever published. In it, Casey Research founder Doug Casey shows five timeless reasons why gold is the best form of money… It’s an unfortunate historical anomaly that people think about the paper in their wallets as money. The […]
Weekend Edition: Your recap of the week’s most valuable and profitable ideas… Monday, April 24, 2017 Why “Averaging Down” on a Trade Is a Bad Idea When there’s too much money at stake, traders tend to make bad decisions. They don’t sleep. They eat poorly. They go to the bar after work. None of that […]
Back in January, we told you about a Wall Street "solution" that's actually more of a "problem" than anything else...