Key US Trading Partners: Inflation, Bank Rates and Pain
Friday’s 6.8 percent inflation rate for the U.S. has us thinking about the rise in inflation globally and we have been doing some research. Specifically, we were interested in finding…
Can Marijuana Bring Back Manufacturing to US?
An interesting study from the University of New Mexico and California Polytechnic University have suggested that embracing Marijuana more fully leads to higher job growth and economic potential. The findings…
Magic Mushroom for Cluster Headaches?
We wrote about our speculative ventures into some alternative drug stocks a few weeks ago in part because the world’s acceptance to alternative medicines is changing day by day. We…
So Much Economic Data So Little Time
There was a tidal wave of economic and market data coming out today so let’s try to digest some of it. First, the market closed out Friday on another negative.…
Growth Portfolio (Let’s Roll The Dice)
We wrote about our defensive stock portfolio recently and today we want to look at the other end of the spectrum: speculative and high growth stocks. We caution that with…
Our Defensive Portfolio So Far
After spending some time researching defensive investments to protect against inflation, we have accumulated small positions in these equities. If and when there are major pullbacks in the stock market,…
Extrapolating Boomers, Big Pharma and Profit (Part 2)
A while back we began some high level research into where big pharma was making money. We started with a review of pharmaceutical spend by Medicare and Medicaid and came…