Marijuana Market Mailbag: PLNHF, GRWG and an Update
Welcome to our first mailbag edition of the Marijuana Market Update! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hdx6wCxOg&t=2s User KK Q left a comment on our YouTube page about the newest stock on our Cannabis Watchlist, Planet 13 Holdings Inc. (OTC: [rwc_multi_symbol...
Smart Money Says Buy Palladium Now
Palladium is the best long-term commodity trade that traders ignore. It’s an important component in catalytic converters, a part of a car’s exhaust system that controls emissions used in gas-powered and hybrid vehicles. According to the BBC, this use should keep...
Foreign Markets Are Crushing U.S. Stocks — Get in With These Plays
The 2020 U.S. presidential election was arguably the most pivotal one in modern history. Love him or hate him, President Trump made no bones about his words and actions — and that cleanly divided folks into just one of two camps, “for” and “against.” It wasn’t just...
The Bitcoin Boom: Buy Pick-and-Shovel NVDA Stock Instead
In this episode of The Bull & The Bear podcast, I highlight why Nvidia Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA) is a great pick-and-shovel play during this bitcoin boom. I pride myself on being a safe investor. It’s not that I don’t take risks, but I don’t take chances that could...
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Amazon Shipping Is the New Norm — Buy International Paper (IP) for a Dividend Bonus
For all the talk about 2020 being a transformative year, very little new actually happened. The COVID-19 pandemic just sped up trends that had been in place for years. Working from home? I’ve done that off and on for almost 20 years. Streaming video? Well over a...
Marijuana Market Mailbag: PLNHF, GRWG and an Update
Welcome to our first mailbag edition of the Marijuana Market Update! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hdx6wCxOg&t=2s User KK Q left a comment on our YouTube page about the newest stock on our Cannabis Watchlist, Planet 13 Holdings Inc. (OTC: [rwc_multi_symbol...
The Bitcoin Boom: Buy Pick-and-Shovel NVDA Stock Instead
In this episode of The Bull & The Bear podcast, I highlight why Nvidia Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA) is a great pick-and-shovel play during this bitcoin boom. I pride myself on being a safe investor. It’s not that I don’t take risks, but I don’t take chances that could...
Biden’s Infrastructure Spending Will Send MYRG 3X Higher
My trip “back home” — from South Florida to Kansas — was a brutal 24-hour drive. A few hours into the trip, I caught myself scanning the mostly flat landscape for something … anything … noteworthy. As we entered Kansas on the turnpike, my family and I noticed more...
Buy Green Energy Stock (REGI) … Not Old-Guard Exxon Mobil (XOM)
It’s human nature to do what we're comfortable with. I played tennis growing up. I distinctly remember my dad ripping from my grip a junior-sized tennis racket when I was a freshman in high school. I was almost six feet tall, and that racket was way too small for...
TSLA Was the Stock of 2020 — GM Stock Is Bullish in 2021
When was the last time you read anything positive about a car company not named Tesla (Nasdaq: )? I can tell you it’s been a while for me. After the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. presidential election, the single biggest story of 2020...
Top EV Stock Breakdown: How to Trade TSLA, NIO and PLUG
In this episode of The Bull & The Bear, we take a closer look at three EV stocks: Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: ), Nio Inc. (NYSE: ) and Plug Power Inc. (Nasdaq: ). I love data. I love...
Smart Money Says Buy Palladium Now
Palladium is the best long-term commodity trade that traders ignore. It’s an important component in catalytic converters, a part of a car’s exhaust system that controls emissions used in gas-powered and hybrid vehicles. According to the BBC, this use should keep...
Foreign Markets Are Crushing U.S. Stocks — Get in With These Plays
The 2020 U.S. presidential election was arguably the most pivotal one in modern history. Love him or hate him, President Trump made no bones about his words and actions — and that cleanly divided folks into just one of two camps, “for” and “against.” It wasn’t just...
Earnings Kickoff: Trouble Ahead for Netflix
Stocks rose last week as the Nasdaq Composite Index hit a new all-time record. Investors are banking on a new round of economic stimulus, including direct payments to households, increased unemployment insurance and aid for state and local governments. There will be a...
Explosive Inflation Makes These 2 Markets More Attractive
Depending on where you go in the world, we’re either still mired in a COVID-19 deflationary funk, or we’re on the leading edge of a raging inflationary inferno. Charlie Bilello, Founder and CEO of Compound Capital Advisors, broke it down for us in a recent tweet:...
Bitcoin’s $9K Crash Shouldn’t Scare You: 2 Reasons to Buy the Dip
In case you missed it, the price of bitcoin has gone absolutely bonkers. After hitting a low of $4,106 in 2020, the cryptocurrency topped out at nearly $42,000 last week in an epic run. It’s since come off those highs; following the bitcoin crash, it was trading...
2021 IPO Preview; 5G Tech Giant Drops Earnings
Money & Markets Week Ahead for the week of January 10, 2021: Let's see how the 2021 IPO market is shaping up. Last week, the Nasdaq index topped 13,000 for the first time in history despite increased COVID-19 hospitalizations and a riot in the nation’s capital....
The “Blue Wave” Hit Washington — How to Invest Now
If you find yourself asking “why” the market moves … just stop. You’re going to give yourself an ice cream headache. Four years ago, the market started an epic run following the “red wave” in 2016 that saw President Donald Trump sweep into power with a...
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Will Trump Boom Ignite Biden Bubble?
“Well, that’s it, Charles. The bull market is over.” I was chatting about the markets with my dad. He wasn’t particularly happy about the election results. Regardless of what any of us think about President Trump, his presidency hasn’t been bad for the stock market....
2 Investing Rules to Live by After the 33.1% GDP Surge
The advanced numbers for third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) in the U.S. came out, and they were a doozy. Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 33.1% in the third quarter. Or did it? The devil is in the details here. By any account, it was a great quarter....
Stimulus Hopes: Why Retail Stocks Are a Good Buy Now
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Good morning pic.twitter.com/UZOcR2yGVd — StockCats (@StockCats) October 9, 2020 It seems that hope for a stimulus bill is what keeps us plodding along. The COVID-19 pandemic took a wrecking ball to the economy. GDP...
Home Prices Rocket Higher With No End in Sight
It seems that most of the Twittersphere has been focused this week on Tuesday’s presidential debates. Let’s steer clear of that one… Instead, I wanted to talk about something positive. August saw the biggest gain in home prices across the country since September 2013;...
4 Reasons Deflation Is Here to Stay
You might have noticed the price of gold spiking to new all-time highs lately. We’ve covered it quite a bit on Money & Markets, and the general consensus around here is that the barbarous relic is likely to go a lot higher. Investors view gold as an inflation...
Not Your Grandfather’s Real Estate: Grab This Fund on the ‘Cheap’
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on America’s landlords. I never thought I would see a time in which real estate investment trusts (REITs) reported “percent of monthly rent collected” to their investors, but that’s where we are today. Those trends are looking a...
These Companies Benefit as Closures Become Stark Reality
Business review site Yelp reports 132,580 businesses closed from March 1 to July 10: You can see in this chart that the number on the left-hand side had been higher. You would think that is a good sign. But it’s misleading. When we first put the brakes on the economy,...
2 Ways to Stay Ahead of the Taxman in 2021
President Joe Biden takes office today, and if the stock market’s performance since November is any indication, the outlook is broadly positive. The hope is that increased federal spending — including another proposed $1,400 stimulus check — will be enough to goose...
Dodge the Tax Man With an IRA Reverse Rollover
Financial planning advice tends to go something like this… Spend your career contributing to a 401(k), collecting the employer matching and building your retirement nest egg. Then, when you retire or change jobs, roll the balance into an IRA and either manage it...
Expert Advice: 3 Tips to Start the New Year Right
I don’t know how wild the parties were this New Year’s Eve. In the age of social distancing, it’s still in poor taste to cram a ton of people into a room and clink glasses. But I know that I wasn’t sad to see 2020 come to a close. My celebration was tame this year,...
Sneak in a Roth IRA Conversion Before December 31
I realize there’s no more room left on Mount Rushmore. We’re stuck with Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. But if we could squeeze in room for one more, I’d carve the face of the late Senator William Roth of Delaware. He isn’t as significant in...
Time Is Your No. 1 Asset When You Invest
You might not have ever heard of Shelby Davis. For those who aren’t in the know, Davis is one of the greatest investors who ever lived. Many consider him second only to the Oracle of Omaha himself, Warren Buffett. (Interestingly, both men built their fortunes roughly...
Rich Man, Poor Man: The True Power of Compound Interest
Today I want to revisit an investment classic written by the late Richard Russell titled, “Rich Man, Poor Man.” It shows how powerful compound interest can be. Russell, who penned the Dow Theory Letters for nearly six decades, is one of the most respected financial...
Protect Your Retirement From Biden’s Tax Plan
[UPDATE] — Last week, I revisited my "Election 2020" series of articles to make sure you have can set up your portfolio for profits in the new year and beyond. You can find that series here. I published the piece below on October 23, 2020. As I explained: And here’s...