Charles Sizemore recently gave his thoughts on Whole Foods (NYSE: $WFM) t0 MarketWatch writer Matt  Andrejczak (see “Whole Foods Shareholders Big Payday“) Whole Foods, bolstered by stronger cash flows, is again paying a dividend, hiking it last month 40% to 56 cents a share on an annual basis. That’s less than a 1% yield but...Read More

If you browsed the title of this article quickly, your eyes probably played a trick you.  Chances are good you saw “Western” instead of “Eastern.” It appears that the sentiment of moral decay in the West is a popular one.  Doing a Google search for “Decline of Western values” returned over 30 million hits.  Searching...Read More

Experienced debaters are familiar with the Latin term reductio ad absurdum. This is a tactic in which your opponent’s proposition is disproven by taking it to a logical extreme—or reducing it to the absurd. For example, the statement that “Stocks always rise over the long run” or that “Over the long run, the economy will...Read More

Truth is indeed often stranger than fiction. Germany, and particularly the former East Germany, has a tradition of public nudity that goes back to the early 1900s. Seven million Germans claim to regularly sunbathe in the buff, and there is even a formal organization—the German Free Body Culture—that boasts 500,000 registered nudists. Yet it appears...Read More

The rating agency lowered Japan to “AA-,” citing Tokyo’s lack of a coherent strategy for dealing with its soaring debt, which now stands at 200% of GDP.Read More