“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero The ancient Roman statesmen was chock full of quotable wisdom, but the quote here is one of my favorites. I’m a big believer in confidence, as

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Last week’s radio show was devoted largely to a discussion of municipal bonds. We covered the issue of why your muni-bond portfolio may be at risk, and what you can do about it. If you’re a muni-bond investor, you simply must give this episode a listen. Remember that Alert readers have FREE access to my

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Join me Saturday, July 10, at 12:00 p.m. (noon) Pacific Standard Time, for a FREE discussion of the rapidly changing 2010 financial markets. In this teleseminar, “Mid-Year Review and Market Outlook,” I will be speaking about how you should position your portfolio for what promises to be a tumultuous second half of 2010. As you’ve

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Gold is one of the most enticing investments in the world right now. The price of the yellow metal hit a record high this month, and each short-term pullback has been followed by a new advance. The upward trend in gold will be marked today by its seventh consecutive quarterly gain. At noontime today, the

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By Jim Woods We know that conservatives, libertarians, most Republicans and Austrian School economists are at odds with President Obama’s economic policies. Count me in with this camp, as I think the country is headed in the direction of too much government and not enough liberty in the realm of economic activity (among other realms).

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Tuesday’s big equity sell-off has a lot of market observers very worried about the future of stocks. I’ve heard a lot of chatter in the financial media about the “head-and-shoulders top” chart pattern on the S&P 500. According to StockCharts.com, a head-and-shoulders top pattern forms after an uptrend, and its completion marks a trend reversal.

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After a couple of solid weeks of steady gains, this week the market turned decidedly south. Stocks witnessed some heavy selling early in the week, and then the market basically just continued drifting lower. There was a rash of bad economic news this week, including horrible home sales data and downwardly revised GDP figures. That news, along with […]

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“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.” –Edith Sitwell The British poet reminds us that the finer things in life can indeed become addictive. Our solution to that, of course, is to increase your wealth so that you can service that worst vice ever invented. Wisdom about money, investing and life can be found

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If you missed last Saturday’s radio show, you missed a very special homage to my father, Dick Fabian. This great investment thinker taught me nearly everything I know about how markets really work, and I still consider him my finest mentor. As a father myself, I think it’s important to try and impart life’s lessons

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The latest cell-phone innovations and the expanding number of applications available to users are gaining my attention as an investor. What also is on my mind is that the telecommunications company that appears best positioned to profit handsomely from such inventions does not seem to be winning the hearts, minds and financial backing of investors.

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