As a follow up to Schwab providing much easier and friendlier access to foreign markets and the sinking feeling that while the cascading down of asset prices is likely behind us (insert nervous smile), the government is still hellbent on trying to fix...

Just a couple of very obvious, but also useful, observations that I have made before. Time will fix any financial crisis/event. The amount of time is probably not knowable but things will right themselves eventually. The government will always intercede...

The Wall Street Journal posted an article about ETFs which made a point that I have been making here and at the Street.com for years which is about the need to look under the hood of any ETFs you study or buy to see what the largest holdings are and...

This is about a dog that United Animal Friends (the rescue my wife volunteers for) adopted out not too long ago. The new owner of the dog is an older lady, and was feeling very sleepy one day and tried to lay down to rest/take a nap but dog would...

...If it is true which I cannot vouch for but this is fascinating and something I have to say I have never thought of. A reader who goes by the name Paul H. M. at Seeking Alpha left the following comment on a post by George Speicher . We're not really...

Apparently it is all good! Hollah!

The segment on CNBC, right before the close yesterday, featured commentary from Rick Bensignor and David Darst. There were a couple of points made in the segment that seem to have been accepted as truthisms that I think are actually counter-productive....

A thought occurred to me the other day as I was looking at the filings page on the IndexUniverse weekly ETF Watch. It might be interesting to create a portfolio from some of the funds that are in registration. To be clear these funds do no exist (yet)...

Albert Edwards was quoted (or maybe paraphrased is a better word) this weekend by both Alan Abelson and Prieur du Plessis with some dire price targets for the S&P 500. Neither post provided links but there were two different numbers; Abelson said...

A couple of observations about a couple of individual stocks. The first stock to mention is Intel (INTC). It made news yesterday for a revenue warning and it made news a few days ago for its intention to buy McAfee (MFE). The idea behind the take...