Years ago, I had a talk with my kids about how much things cost. They looked at me in shock and horror.
“Life is expensive,” I told them.
That’s even more true today. You’re likely paying at least $4 a...
“I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.”– Hilaire Belloc
“ tranquil, permanent felicity with which domestic society in America, blesses most of its inhabitants.”– Thomas Jefferson
On July 4,...
In my new book – The American Dream: Why It’s Still Alive… and How to Achieve It – I detail the many ways that academia, Hollywood, the corporate media, and social media try to depict the world as...
I’ve always been amazed by the story of nuclear power.
Decades ago, it promised a future with less need for oil and gas. Then nuclear technology became linked to war, and the accident at Three Mile Island turned public...
In late 2023, mortgage real estate investment trust Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE: ABR) received a “B” for dividend safety.
At the time, the only issue was that net interest income (the measure of cash flow used by mortgage REITs)...
Editor’s Note: In case you missed it, consumer price index data for June was released this morning, and inflation remains near its highest level in more than two years. (The resumption of the attacks in Iran isn’t helping,...
“I don’t know what the seven wonders of the world are, but I know the eighth: compound interest.”– The Maxims of Wall Street, Page 181
I just returned from a glorious FreedomFest in Las Vegas, my annual conference where...
When it comes to the markets, the crowd seems to constantly be in search of The Next Big Thing − the latest “can’t-miss” sector, industry, or individual stock.
For years, it was the Magnificent Seven.
For much of 2026, it’s...
The impact of AI is easy to grasp when the talk stays with digital chatbots. It gets harder when AI shows up in a place as dull as a warehouse.
That is what makes Symbotic (Nasdaq: SYM) interesting. The...
Shopping for groceries these days is an exercise in controlling rage.
The prices of most food items have gone bananas (including bananas).
It’s easy to blame the supermarket, but the truth is grocery stores have notoriously razor-thin margins.
The average supermarket...
