We all see that the current economy has strongly influenced on everybody in every market. It is eventually hard for people to earn living. And traders also, they have to deal with lots of difficulties. So, ever wonder how to become a profitable trader, especially in current time? Ever want to take t...

With the the cost of ingredients, gas prices, and interest rates dropping, why are food manufacturers continuing to hike prices and shrink products? According to the L.A. Times, supermarkets don't know, but they're as pissed as we are. We noted in July that food prices were expected to rise. The jus...

Crusted with snow and ice, they stand like monuments to a lost era. With their windows gaping empty over the freezing tundra, the deserted apartment blocks of Yor Shor speak of a time when the Kremlin believed ideology and industry could defeat nature. A decade ago more than 5,000 people lived in th...

I knew it would happen to some of my stock picks this year -- but ouch! -- Anglo American (NASDAQ: AAUK) has reported that it is handing out 19,000 pink slips world wide, oh, by the way, you can forget about the dividend -- that's gone too. The stock closed yesterday at $8.75 and is trading down at ...

Frankly, I am having a hard time being bullish because everything feels so bad. I was in the office on President's Day and watched the S&P 500 futures tick down to near-term support at 806, such that futures are indicating a 20 point decline at the open on Tuesday.  Now, it appears the...

“I n the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centered on the living Christ. Then the Church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe where it became a culture. And, finally it moved to America,...

The markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are rallying in spite of a gloomy report about job losses that far exceeded expectations. Heavy Losses. In January, the economy lost 598,000 jobs. The losses were spread across the manufacturing and services industries. The numbers put the unemployment......

I know this is a hard one to believe, being that we are obviously in the middle of a deflationary period, but savvy institutional players are already starting to position themselves for inflationary times ahead. Inflation! Have I lost my mind? Actually, no... Let me explain what I mean. Former centr...

When one of my relatives was in their 30's, they read a book on weight loss that said if you want to get “skinny�, then do what “skinny people� do. At the time, I was very skinny. So they followed me around for a month and ate when I ate, at the amount that I ate and stopped eating when I st...

Having now denied many European countries gas for 10 days, Russia may have brutally exposed the vulnerability of the European Union. But it has also shot itself in the foot and forced the EU to get serious about cutting its exposure to Russian provisions. In the end, Moscow’s only long-term re...