“Being so skeptical about the usefulness of advice, I have been reluctant to lay down any ‘rules’ or guidelines on how to invest or speculate wisely. Still, there are a number of things I have learned from my own experience which might b...

Pull up a chair, pour yourself a cup of joe, and enjoy our longer form reads: • The Money Shot: Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram (Vanity Fair) • Turns out VCs are merely as lucky as...

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’...

Monitoring the Financial System Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois May 10, 2013 We are now more than four years...

Check this out: “Mick’s Message to the Bay Area”: It’s like a bad SNL skit, a bozo politician doing an inadequate job of reading from the Teleprompter. And how about this from the Echoplex: That’s the vi...

Succinct Summations week ending May 10, 2013. Positives: 1. S&P 500 and the Dow continue their ascent, both hitting new all-time highs. 2. U.S. weekly jobless claims come in at their lowest reading since January 2008. 323K v expectations...

Looks like we are just about sold out for this weekend’s lecture at Newport Beach Library in California. This is one of the more fun presentations I do where we reveal secrets heretofore undisclosed guaranteeing you 10x your money ...

Source: Chart of the Day The US stock markets continue to rally this week, with the S&P 500 trading up on the week. A longer term look at the S&P 500 since 2000 illustrates both the post dot com comeback and and the post-financial cris...

My morning reads: • Market bears still waiting for pullback (CNNMoney) but see It’s not just stocks; everything is overvalued (MarketWatch) • Welcome to Saudi America (FT Alphaville) • Fees of Fees don’t sound like a great deal for...

We learned of the sad news of Alan Abelson’s passing yesterday. I know so many people who have “Abelson stories” — from Doug Kass to Stephanie Pomboy to David Rosenberg to Phillip Dunne. Hopefully, these folks wil...