Las Vegas Sands (LVS)
Las Vegas Sands was a topic of conversation on Friday's episode of Options Action. LVS is a gaming/gambling company with operations in both the US and Asia. This article is…
Banking the Unbanked is a $380B Opportunity
For those of us living in North America or Europe, we generally take the near-universal access we have to financial services for granted. Sure, there are many people that have…
Don’t Fall Asleep
The equity markets have been chopping higher in an environment where nobody cares about bad or bearish news. We think this is making people complacent and we see everywhere on…
More Government Spending Won’t Make the Economy Grow
A key factor that constrains people’s ability to generate goods and services is the scarcity of funding. Contrary to popular thinking, funding for consumption and production is not about money…
The $300 Billion Counterfeit Goods Problem, and How It Hurts Brands
When you are walking along the boardwalk on vacation, you know it’s a “buyer beware” type of situation when you buy directly from a street vendor. Those Cuban cigars are…
Tesla (TSLA) Pops, Now What?
We have been patiently watching TSLA stock and company performance for some time now, waiting for the next opportunity to suggest a trade idea that has a good chance of working out.…
Close a Few Trade Suggestions
A number of trade suggestions have reached their objective before expiration so we thought we might point them out so investors can close the door on these trades and focus on…
Everything You Wanted to Know About Inflation but Afraid to Ask
If the supply of caviar were as plentiful as the supply of potatoes, the price of caviar — that is, the exchange ratio between caviar and money or caviar and…
The Week Ahead | 10/28/2019
Happy Monday. Good Luck out there this week. Global Spotlight Glimmers of Hope for U.S.-China Trade. This week brought a bit of cautious optimism to what had seemed an ever-darkening outlook on the…
Return to the Amazon (AMZN)
Amazon just reported earnings and it seems that investors do not know what to make of the report and forward-looking guidance. This article is for paid members - please login…
PPL Corporation Update
PPL Corporation is a utility holding company that delivers electricity and natural gas in the United States and the United Kingdom. Utilities are very important to an economy as we…
Stimulus Brings Stagnation: The Case of Japan
Efforts to stimulate growth end up hampering growth. The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle (ATBC), pioneered by Ludwig von Mises, explains this seeming paradox. Government reduction of interest rates…