As a former electrical engineer, I’ve been interested and involved in technology since I was a teenager. That was more than 50 years ago. I’ve managed my own investments for nearly that long as well. And I’ve seen tech bubbles come and go. But the one we’re experiencing now is a little different from past bubbles. That’s because many of the companies caught up in this one are involved in the clean tech disruption. This is especially true in the energy sector. We are rapidly moving from molecules to electrons. The transportation sector is electrifying at breakneck speed. In an interview with th ..read more

Right now, the herd is stampedeing toward the exits. The mainstream finanical media is throwing one negative headline after another at investors, encouraging them to flee stocks. No asset has been safe. Even Bitcoin’s price has been cut in half – as I forecast it would. But while all too many investors are wringing their hands over the red in their portfolios, I’m spying the green shoots of an unprecedented opportunity. One of my favorite, contrarian moneymaking signals is flashing “Buy!” Why Herd Mentality Is Dangerous At the end of April, the American Association of Individual Investors (AAI ..read more

It’s hard to think about investing when so many negative factors are distracting the markets. The war in Ukraine, supply chain issues, the chip shortage, inflation and rising interest rates all come to mind. But periods like this are exactly when you should invest. I’ve been through a number of market corrections in my nearly five decades of investing. So I know that, like all of the previous ones, this market correction will end. And when it does, stocks will soar higher than they did before the correction began. Remember, the long-term trend has always been that the market goes up. I can’t t ..read more

Predictability. That’s what we all want as investors… particularly in times like these when the market feels unhinged. Before we make a trade, we want to know that we’re not going to get burned… that we’re not going to leap into a stock only to watch it die… along with our dreams of financial independence. Predictability – or the lack thereof – is why so many smaller retail investors get pushed to the sidelines. Volatility – the maddening ups and downs – makes them feel like passengers in a car with a drunk driver at the wheel. But what if you could remove some of the guesswork? What if you co ..read more

Back when coal was America’s top energy source, Kentucky was a big producer. In fact, Kentucky’s been mining “black gold” for more than two centuries. In 2016, the state produced the fourth-most coal in the country. That year, it mined 42.9 million tons. But after 2016, utilities in Kentucky and elsewhere in the U.S. started phasing out coal-fired power plants. Many of these plants were old, and all of them contributed to carbon dioxide emissions. So in 2019, former Kentucky state auditor Adam Edelen decided to do something to help the state and its surrounding region transition away from dirt ..read more

The S&P 500 is in correction territory… again. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed nearly 2,200 points over the last seven days of April. And it continues to head lower. The Nasdaq and Russell 2000 are at new 52-week lows, deep in bear country. And the market has been nothing but mayhem in recent weeks. So much so that even one of the most dependable trends over the past decade and a half crumbled apart. April’s stretch of awesome gains for the Dow came to an end as stocks tanked in the closing days of the month. Instead of posting a positive return – which blue chips had done in April e ..read more

I’ve written a lot about renewable energy’s role in lowering our carbon footprint. But that’s not the only way we’re keeping carbon emissions in check. Nuclear power makes carbon-free electricity. About 10% of the world’s electricity comes from 440 nuclear power plants. Here in the U.S., 18.9% of our power is nuclear. However, nuclear power plants cost too much to build and operate. Wind and solar are much cheaper alternatives. As a result, there will probably never be another big nuclear power plant built in the U.S. after the two currently under construction are completed. But that’s not the ..read more

There are people who say, “You can’t time the market.” But believe me, they’re wrong. I’ve spent my career working to show that you can… That there’s a rhythm to the markets… and it can be tapped into. More importantly, it can be profited from. Trained as a graphic artist, I’ve always been fascinated by patterns. When I’m sitting, staring off into space, I break the world around me into geometric shapes. I look for cracks and follow them, imagining where they might eventually lead if given the chance. I do the same in the markets. I look for patterns. I look for lines and where they might lead ..read more

Connectivity. When I was growing up, connecting meant talking to another person over a dial-up, landline telephone network. In our house, we had a rotary phone. And it was on a party line that we shared with two other families. Fast forward half a century. Connectivity is no longer limited to people. We can now use our wireless smartphones to connect to everything, everywhere. They enable us to instantly connect with anyone in the world. We can now connect to our homes and the devices in them. We can see how much power our solar panels are producing in real time. And we can see where our cars ..read more

The markets are constantly evolving. So we are frequently introduced to not only new assets, like exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrencies, but also entire new worlds of exciting investment opportunities. In fact, over the past few years, we’ve seen a boom in one sector of the market. And if tapped correctly, it has the power to mint fortunes. But investors who act rashly and dive in headfirst without doing their homework are almost guaranteed to lose their shirts. The Overlooked IPO Catalyst A piece of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act created an on-ramp for small companie ..read more