“Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.  No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time:  You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”- Warren Buffett The bull market that started in March of 2009 is now on the verge of its 6th and a half year,...Read More

    “Many that are fallen shall be redeemed, and many shall fall that are now in honor.” Horace 20 B.C. During the late 1990’s, tech stocks reached valuations that nobody could explain. While most people saw the dynamically changing marketplace and felt the extraordinary impact of the internet, traditional valuation metrics such as P/E...Read More

I’ve received many questions on really what the Brexit means. It is a rather confusing subject in many ways so I found a very good article that does a better job explaining it than I could personally. I wouldn’t pay too much consideration into the last few days trading since the results of the election...Read More

Last Thursday’s Brexit vote led to a historically nightmarish day in the financial markets: Indexes across the globe were down between 3-10%. The British pound dropped from a high of $1.50 to $1.32, before finally recovering to $1.37, down an enormous 9% for the currency. European banks stocks were down between 15 and 20%. S....Read More

Last night’s vote for Great Britain to exit the EU was a massive shot to the bow of the European establishment. While polls had been even, the betting odds were basically 8-1 that the country would stay in the EU, so markets are quite shocked at the result. In overnight trading, just about every asset...Read More

These last few weeks have been marred by extremely significant volatility as we prepare for the Brexit vote on June 23rd. While most of the impact of any Brexit wouldn’t likely be felt for several years at the minimum, the uncertainty that more countries would leave the Eurozone could mean more volatility for the market...Read More

  Since the extremely weak May jobs report, interest rates have plummeted across the globe. There are now over $10 trillion in bonds that are trading at negative interest rates. This is unprecedented as the buyers of these bonds are guaranteeing themselves losses if they hold until maturity. This has pushed asset prices up as...Read More

Hello Everybody, I hope that you all had a safe and enjoyable Independence Day holiday!  Today’s news is that the people of Greece have rejected the terms of its creditors’ by voting no in the referendum.  Now it will be very difficult for this radical leftist government to come to terms on a package to...Read More

Few individuals understand the nature of markets better than George Soros and I believe that he is right on in regards to his thoughts on Europe.  The EU has proved to be extremely problematic and ripe with unforeseen consequences.  I also think he is right on that austerity was a terrible idea given the risk...Read More

Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital provides some of the most thoughtful and in-depth research of any Hedge Fund managers that I am aware of, and in this piece he forecasts some pretty dire scenarios for Europe and Japan.  Central banks are out of control and they aren’t getting the assistance on the fiscal end to...Read More