Investing

The First Rebuttal website has coined a term that gets to the heart of an increasingly dysfunctional system: the too-big-to-fail stock market. Markets no longer serve their intended purpose of efficiently allocating capital. Since capitalist wealth creation depends on that function, today’s world can no longer be called “free” or “market-based” in any meaningful sense.

Dividends may be boring if you’re looking for casino-like thrills, but slow and steady is the path to long-term wealth. The comments above and below are excerpts from an article by Tony Sagami (MauldinEconomics.com) which has been edited ([ ]) and abridged (…) to provide a faster and easier read. I love dividends, and I’m far from alone. Do you know the only thing …

While CNBC and other perma-bulls claim that the stock market is a great investment today, the smart money is already prepping for a disaster. Goldman Sachs has told its clients to “sell at the new high.” Credit Suisse just told its clients stocks “haven’t looked this worrisome since the tech bubble.” They’re correct. Stocks are in a bubble by virtually every reasonable metric.

Gold, silver and their mining stocks will perform much better than they did during the first part of the bull market. Here's why.

Precious metals thrive on volatility – the more uncertainty in the markets the more gains silver and gold will likely see - but how can investors make a rational decision regarding which specific stock to choose in this sector? One idea is to select those that have a positive net income. These stocks are generally safer as their costs have been normalized and are being covered by inflows of revenue and cash. The silver and gold stocks on our list today exhibit positive EPS figures, which we think will benefit its investors.

Tech stocks have been moving higher in recent weeks but, before considering buying tech penny stocks, investors should always consider valuation multiples to make sure they are not overpaying. This article presents a list of 5 such stocks with low EV/EBITDA multiples compared to its peers.

Like virtual reality, there are 10 other emerging technologies that are finally ready for prime time. Some, like the recent advances in artificial intelligence, have been decades in the making. Others, such as the blockchain, are relatively new phenomenons that are also ready for their time in the spotlight. here they are in today's infographic.

The gold miners-to-gold ratios are indicators that show how many gold ounces are required to purchase one share of an index. Technically, the numbers are the value of the index divided by the price of gold. They show a relative value of miners to the price of bullion, thus indicating whether gold stocks or gold are overvalued or undervalued relative to each other. When the ratios are low, miners are cheap compared to gold, and when the numbers are high, gold stocks look expensive relative to bullion. Let’s examine a chart to see what it says is the situation these days.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has come up with a master plan for ramping up car production which, if achieved, could cause lithium stocks to skyrocket. Below are descriptions of 5 such companies that could become supercharged as a result.

There are many ways to gain exposure to movements in the price of gold - bullion (bars or coins), gold futures, shares in gold exchange-traded funds, jewelry, certificates, pool accounts, options, structured products, etc., but today we will focus on gold stocks, i.e. shares in gold mining companies.