In January 2000, I decided to short some dumb internet stocks. That was going fine until the Fed did a surprise rate cut, at which point those trades went up an uncomfortable orifice.

You may find this hard to believe, but Edward Jones does more good in the world than Vanguard.

The BE SMART podcast has been in existence for a while, and I thought it was a clever bit of branding on my part, because isn’t that what we all hope to aspire to do in money and markets—be smart?

Trading is funny—sometimes things are going really well, and sometimes things are going very poorly.

The people at the Federal Reserve keep telling me that we are headed into a recession. I don’t see it!

I want to talk about why this book is important.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how I thought the bottom in commodities was near. I think it happened.

How much do politics affect the markets? The way people talk, you would think that politics would affect the markets a lot.

People like stocks and bonds but don’t like commodities.