For the tobacco industry, there’s a lot of money to be made by getting people hooked on cigarettes and keeping them as customers for life. But smoking cessation products are increasingly sendin

The next big shoe to drop and giant bubble to pop is the US bond market. The explosive run up into December 2008 was an absolute Christmas present for bond bears willing to short the panic top. The 2

Have you wished that back in the middle of 2003, you'd recognized that the economy was recovering, and that when Apple’s (AAPL) new Macs and iPods were starting to fly off the shelves, you'd pu

Risky assets remained in favor during the past week, generally helped along by fairly robust economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings reports. A number of bourses, crude oil, inflati

Many baby boomers spent too much time listening to rock lyrics that said “live for today and don’t worry about tomorrow,” which has plunged them into financial trouble and is delayi

Editor's Note: Reid Holloway is a consultant who created The RLH Volatility Model.Every crowd has its cool people, and markets are no different.The bull market of the early 1960s (then beyond, as tha

The world's next blockbuster drug might be coming out of a company based in my hometown of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company is called Resverlogix and I had the opportunity to meet with the compa

It’s never been hard to find a small group of Cassandras, so-called “doomers” who see the apocalypse foreshadowed in Mayan calendars, Nostradamus writings, and the Terminator movies

Editor's Note: This article was written by Reid Holloway, a consultant who created The RLH Volatility Model.When all else fails, try being calm and rational. Problem is, the calm and ration

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high level financial positions with a retailer, homebuilde