Commodity Prices

There are lots of reasons to sell an investment. Most of them probably have nothing to do with the quality of the underlying asset you bought in the first… Read more

Today, I'd like to provide some useful perspective as I take another look at what I had to say about silver exactly one year ago.

Forget the debt crisis in Europe and elsewhere – the world's biggest (and richest) oil companies are going shopping.

I'm putting in a Good-til-Cancelled bid at $155 a share on this precious metal ETF.

So when I refer to an uninflatable asset, I'm referring to commodities. I'm also making up a word. It's not in the dictionary.

Putting your money in a company that explores for or mines rare earth is a speculation-only venture by any definition of the word.

Many investors have been tricked into thinking the United States Natural Gas fund (NYSE: UNG) is designed to closely track the price of natural gas.

When two of the biggest companies in the market miss earnings – and in Apple's case it was the first time in almost a decade it missed – and… Read more

All of these ridiculously expensive bailouts have the effect of lowering our sensitivity to crisis. Like a diabetic with insulin resistance: every dose of money raises our tolerance to… Read more