There’s a lot of talk among Wall Streeters these days about a bubble. And they’re right, there is a bubble—just not the one they think.   Most assume the bubble is in housing. But today’s high home prices are simply the consequence of the real bubble,… Read More

Look abroad to stay ahead   THE OUTLOOK: We’re heading for a protracted period of high and rising inflation. HOW TO PROFIT: Buy high-yielding companies located abroad in fast-growing countries whose currencies are undervalued.   The next decade or so will be… Read More

Its new weight-loss drug has vast potential the Street has overlooked   Lately in TCI, including this issue in Fast Track (p.8), we’ve been discussing a newly recognized chronic disease called metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome afflicts nearly 50 million American adults and likely hundreds of millions… Read More

Recent consolidation in the industry is a good sign for our picks   Three big mergers in the utility sector in the past six months have left investors wondering what it all means and what’s next. Income Portfolio’s Exelon began the trend by announcing… Read More

If the risks don’t scare you, it could juice up your returns   Up to now, in our fixed income picks, we’ve focused exclusively on funds holding U.S. debt. But while domestic funds offer the greatest safety, you earn a higher yield by venturing into funds… Read More

The biotech leader has an edge in cancer drugs   Eager to beef up our health care offerings, we looked at what the five top-rated health care funds were up to and were struck by recent decisions by Blackrock Health Sciences fund pointing up… Read More

National Oilwell Varco: a Panoply of Post-Merger Positives   With our bullish long-term outlook on energy, we’re adding a new energy play: National Oilwell Varco, created by the March 2005 merger of National Oilwell and Varco. The day the merger… Read More

Now’s your chance to buy the best of the Dow at cut-rate prices   Since early this year, some of the bluest blue chips have slipped 15 to 20 percent—giving investors a golden opportunity to buy some world class stocks at bargain prices.   In… Read More

Robert Prechter: Still Publishing, Still Bearish   Let no one say that we don’t give equal time to opposing viewpoints. Case in point: Robert Prechter, an engaging Yale graduate (B.S. in psychology) who since 1978 has published the Elliott Wave Forecast, one of the oldest investment… Read More

Why the Fed can’t ward it off   In the early 1980s, in my book Getting in on the Ground Floor, I forecast a great bull market based on sustainable economic growth. In the late 1990s, in Defying the Market, I forecast the end of the… Read More