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Bill Fleckenstein says the economy is tanking

Bill Fleckenstein says that the economy is tanking, on account of the collapse in the housing market. I wonder if he's still bullish on gold and silver?

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Sold more HEC

Since I purged my portfolio of oil and gas stocks, the stocks I sold have gone up, while the ones I kept (half of HEC, TRLG, LIZ) have gone down. So I have no doubt that, by now, no one is listening...

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Iran and the oil risk premium

Oil is surging. I sure regret selling my oil stocks. The current price clearly represents a risk premium associated with the British soldiers being held by Iran. The worst case scenario (or best case...

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New stock picks

After selling off my oil and gas investments, I had a lot of cash lying around, and I realized that TD Ameritrade was paying me a really lousy interest rate. I thought about putting all of it into a...

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Bill Fleckenstein, you suck!

I've long followed Bill Fleckenstein, but I've begun to suspect that his advice is bad. After all, he always screams "sell sell sell" yet somehow the Dow is pretty close to an all time high. CXO...

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Buy Media Sciences International

Another stock pick for you: Media Sciences International (NASDAQ: MSII). This is a rare case where I recommend a growth stock and not a value stock. The problem with most growth stocks is, how do you...

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Buy Celebrate Express (NASDAQ: BDAY)

Celebrate Express, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDAY), seems to be a struggling company, but underneath dissappointing earnings is a very strong balance sheet, with $3.70 net current assets per share, even after a...

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Goodbye Pogo, Hello Chesapeake

Pogo Producing Company (PPP) was bought out only a few days after I purchased the stock! I only made a small profit off this deal. I sold my PPP today and invested the money into Chesapeake Energy...

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Buying more DROOY [DROOD]

I noticed that there was $1600 of cash in my IRA account, exactly enough money to buy another 2000 shares of DRDGOLD Ltd. (NASDAQ: DROOY). Done. (Hopefully this is too tiny of an investment to jinx...

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The end of VB.NET, long live C#

When Visual Studio.NET first came out, I immediately predicted that C# would surpass VB.NET as the preferred .NET language. Unlike many of my predictions which didn’t pan out (the first time I saw the...

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