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Cannot Stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression Turns into obsession Cannot kill the battery –Metallica, “Battery” Elon Musk. The name is synonymous with eccentric genius. When it comes to his electric car company, the mighty Tesla, Inc. (TSLA), well, that stock has been an investor juggernaut that’s up some 370% year to date. Yes, you read that number correctly. […]
Accessing American Real Estate Investment Trusts
To put it mildly, the overall performance of real estate investment trusts (REITs) this year has been less than stellar. So far, in 2020, the overall sector has lost 13.6%, which is considerable, especially when we take into account that the S&P 500’s loss for the same period was just 5%. When REITs are aggregated by sector, the losses […]
Burning Down the House, Volume II
“My home state is in a stranglehold of flames.” That’s how I described the fires raging in the Golden State, not last week, but some 11 months ago in this column. And if you’ve been following the news over the past several weeks, you know that the raging wildfires aren’t just in California, but also […]
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Wrong Doesn’t Mean Evil
Today I am proud to present a guest editorial by my friend, writer, filmmaker and intellectual activist Stewart Wade Margolis. Stewart has been my very good friend and fellow advocate for reason since our days together at UCLA. He’s also been a guest on my podcast, Way of the Renaissance Man. In this short essay, Stewart […]
Gain Exposure to Small-, Mid- and Large-Cap Banks
(Note: third in a series on post-pandemic boom ETFs) The SPDR S&P Bank ETF (NYSEARCA: KBE) tracks an equal-weighted index of U.S. banking firms of various sizes. The exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracks the S&P Banks Select Industry Index. It seeks to provide exposure to the bank segment of the S&P TMI, which is comprised of the following sub-industries: […]
Your Pandemic Solution Revealed
When it comes to figuring out a solution to the global pandemic that is COVID-19, our experts would be well served to listen to the wisdom of crowds. That’s especially true if the experts were privy to your pandemic solutions, with “your” being the nearly 300 respondents to last week’s survey on how best to […]