In the whiskey swilling days of my youth, I always preferred Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey to Jim Beam Kentucky Bourbon. I was far from a whiskey connoisseur, but it just seemed to go down smoother. Regrettably, I’m not as young as I used to be and, to quote Hank Williams, Jr., “corn bread and iced...Read More

You know you have reached a certain level of immortality when your name becomes a verb, and I can think of no better example than the American actor Humphrey Bogart, perhaps best known for his role in that all-time classic Casablanca. “To Bogart” a cigarette is to leave it dangling sloppily in your mouth, even...Read More

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on “Naughty and Nice” dividend stocks. Perhaps I’m some sort of anti-social deviant, but I’ve never been a big fan of socially-responsible investing.  It has always seemed crazy to me to ignore profitable investment opportunities because a company’s product happens to be politically incorrect at that particular...Read More

Sin stocks.  Vice investments.  Merchants of death.  They all sound delightfully naughty, don’t they? That’s because they are.  Based on the recent returns of alcohol and tobacco stocks, investors might conclude that it’s good to be bad.  In a year marked by macroeconomic shock waves emanating from Europe, popular sin stocks like Altria ($MO), Philip...Read More

Crack open a cold one, and watch Charles Sizemore give his thoughts on international beer stocks on Bloomberg TV.   If you cannot view the video, please follow this link to Bloomberg’s site: Playing the World of Beer Stocks Stocks mentioned: Boston Beer ($SAM), Anheuser-Busch InBev ($BUD), Heineken ($HINKY), Molson-Coors ($TAP) If you liked this article,...Read More