After a disastrous regional election, Germany's Christian Democrats have decided to shut down all 17 of Germany's nuclear power plants by 2022. Jim doubts that it will ever actually happen. Read More
Analyst Articles
Crude oil prices have been very volatile so far in 2011, but the trend is now firmly up. Read More
Bruce Berkowitz is criticizing the U.S. government for selling part of its stake in AIG for only two-thirds of book value. But AIG's book value of $47 may be less real than it appears. Read More
Jim argues that a huge IPO price pop is a sign of failure, not success. Long-term investors in LinkedIn should be very angry at both the investment banks involved and LinkedIn's corporate executives. Read More
Aaron Visse of the Forward Funds says the future is bright for emerging-market infrastructure investments. Read More
Equal-weighted index ETFs are all the rage, but will they continue to outperform their market-cap weighted competitors in the future? Read More
Chris Ryon of the Thornburg Funds describes the values to be found in tax-free municipal bonds. Investor fears of government defaults are -- for the most part -- overblown. Read More
May 1st is only three days away and that brings to the fore the old Wall Street adage "Sell in May and Go Away." But the summer stock market can actually be quite profitable if you know which industry sectors to avoid. Read More
Jim laments Cisco System's mystifying decision to terminate its wildly-successful flip video mini-camcorder business. Has CEO John Chambers lost his mind? Read More
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's 1957 philosophical masterpiece on individual freedom, has finally made it to the silver screen 54 years after the novel's publication. Jim says the movie was worth the wait and is very timely given the current state of U.S. political affairs. Read More