I have just come across Brad Castro's website and I am encouraged by his unglitzy website and his apparent down to earth, commonsense approach. I would like to sign up to the Leveraged Investment Club but it is currently closed to new members. This makes m[...]

Talking about AAPL is like talking about religion or politics. You have true believers, agnostics, infidels, and every other shade of opinion, all deeply felt and vociferously defended. I won't say which, if any, of these camps I am in, but I do find it in[...]

That would be Warren Zevon, not Tom Waits. And the lyric is "send lawyers, guns and money"[...]

I was interested to read last week that, even as Larry Summers, Christine Lagarde, the World Bank, et. al. were urging the Fed not to raise interest rates for fear of sparking an emerging markets panic, several emerging markets finance ministers (Indonesia[...]

Actually, it's Bon anniversaire. Anniversaire is masculine.[...]

I like AROFF. Years ago I worked in South Africa with Francis Daniels, who is the Africa Opportunity Fund's Chief Investment Officer. Francis, a U.S.- and U.K.-educated Ghanaian, is fiercely intelligent, market-savvy, and possessed of high integrity. It's [...]