The market continued down its woeful path this week.  It seems folks got all worried again about a little country named Greece.  You may have heard of it. A place of past glory, we owe a debt to Greece for the beginning of western civilization.  And debt is the key word here.  It seems like [...]

When I was in my 20’s, my friend Marty and I started playing handball after work at the local YMCA.  It was great fun and exercise, leaving us both wringing in sweat at the end of an hour. One evening, as we were ready to play in our allotted time, two old guys asked if [...]

The Turtles was a group of inexperienced traders that answered a newspaper ad in Chicago in the 80’s.  The group was formed to settle a debate that Richard Dennis, a multi-millionaire commodities trader, made with a friend and fellow trader named William Eckhardt. Dennis believed that successful trading was not an innate skill special people [...]

One of the main objections to investing in gold is that it pays no dividend.  And the same can be said for many gold stocks. Which puts us in a quandary as investors.  Because indications are that the price of gold could go up in the future as the value of the dollar continues to [...]