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The U.S. Army’s top officer has said that the window of opportunity for a military assault on Syria is within the next three to four months and that budget cuts would render intervention after the end of summer unlikely. Read more…
Mitchell Clark: With employment figures the big news of the day, the business of human resources (HR) is still a good one. Technology is changing the HR landscape, and I believe that exposure to this industry is useful as Read more…
According to government measures, inflation in the U.S. is all but non-existent. The officially endorsed Consumer Price Index (CPI) claims a mere 1.5% rise in Read more…
Mitchell Clark: In a rare miss for a consumer products business, The Clorox Co (NYSE:CLX) disappointed the stock market by reporting very flat first-quarter numbers. It’s more evidence that real economic growth continues to Read more…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), already the largest investor in DaVita, has agreed to nearly double their stake in the company. Once finalized Berkshire would hold a 25% stake in the the leading kidney Read more…
Mitchell Clark: The great outdoors are back—big time. Among retail stocks, it was widely expected that Cabelas Inc (NYSE:CAB) would report very good earnings results. But the company didn’t just announce good Read more…
David Zeiler: Wall Street’s Big Banks are hardly known for their good deeds, but JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) may be the worst of the lot. Read more…
JT Long: The need for low-cost production may prove to be the mother of invention, argues Emerging Trends Report Editor Richard Karn. Although miners are far more technologically conservative than oil producers, today’s tough financing environment Read more…
John Whitefoot: Investors are always advised to have a diversified portfolio: stocks, bonds, cash, value stocks, and growth stocks. It’s also a great idea to have a good mix of cyclical and Read more…
It takes five times as much water to get natural gas from a fracked well as it does to get oil out of the ground. Water is the one essential element in the energy revolution that is happening all around us. And there is a lot of money to Read more…
For long suffering Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shareholders it may not feel like it but the rally off the $385 was the “easy” part of the trade. At this point, shares are running headlong into a series of overhead resistance levels that could test the Read more…
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With rising precious metals prices comes the age-old scam of counterfeits. Read more…
Big Brother is watching everything that you do on the Internet and listening to everything that you say on your phone. Every single day in America, the U.S. government intercepts and stores nearly 2 billion emails, phone calls and other forms Read more…
Ron Paul: Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything but a stagnant economy. It was a disappointing, but not surprising, move. Read more…
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