I joined CNBC’s Pauline Chiou Sunday evening to discuss the FANG stocks: Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Alphabet (GOOGL), née Google. The FANGs have given the market a growth story that it really needed. Revenue growth in the S&P 500 has been tepid at best for years, and earnings per share growth has been...Read More

  In August of 1971, Ray Dalio – now one of the most respected hedge fund billionaires on Wall Street – was a lowly clerk working on the Street. By coincidence, Dalio was starting his career during one of history’s critical turning points. President Nixon had just taken the dollar off of the gold standard....Read More

The following is an excerpt from today’s 5-Day Forecast: Today is Labor Day, a holiday to honor the American worker by giving them a day off. The markets are closed, so you should really stop reading this, step away from the computer and enjoy the unofficial end of summer. But if you insist on reading,...Read More

  InvestorPlace recently did a special report on ETFs: The 10 Best ETFs on the Planet Here’s an excerpt from my contribution: It’s a strange time to be an income investor. Most government bonds in the developed world actually sport negative yields. And even those in positive territory — like U.S. Treasuries — don’t yield...Read More

Whenever two Texans meet for the first time on neutral territory – and by neutral, I mean anywhere outside the Lone Star State – somehow, some way, the meeting inevitably becomes a contest to see whose Texan roots run deeper. It’s the closest thing to a manhood-measuring contest I can imagine without a ruler. At...Read More