The fiscal cliff has been getting most of the media attention these days.  And when not fretting over U.S. political gridlock, investors have turned their attention to Europe. But the real crisis brewing—and the one that no one seems to notice—is in Japan.  The land of the rising sun is a ticking time bomb, and...Read More

If Warren Buffett is doing it, it must be good, right? That’s actually horrendously bad advice. Warren Buffett is one of the greatest investors in history, but you should never blindly follow any investor–not even the Sage of Omaha. You don’t know what their rationale for buying was or what their sell criteria is, and...Read More

The world is a funny little place.  For all the talk of Greece (or Spain…or Italy…or Portugal…) getting kicked out of the Eurozone, it is the United Kingdom—which doesn’t even use the euro as its currency—that may be the first political casualty of the euro crisis. By this time next year, the UK might well...Read More

It’s filing season again, that time of year when we get to peek at what big, high-profile investors are buying.  And perhaps no portfolio is waited for in more anticipation that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:$BRK-A). Buffett is still bullish these days, even with all the talk of the fiscal cliff.  If we fell over...Read More

The following is a guest essay by Stan Barton, reproduced with his permission.  I share Stan’s enthusiasm for natural gas and consider the redevelopment of domestic energy to be one of the greatest investment themes of the next decade.  In particular, I see enormous potential for natural-gas-powered cars, something that Stan touches on. It remains...Read More