by Uncommon Sense Investor | Sep 30, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Feature, Investing, Stocks, United States
Hedgeye Risk Management’s Keith McCullough started warning clients and subscribers about a bear market crash in January of this year. His theory has proven correct, based on data, and rooted in a belief that the most epic bubble of all time would burst, and that...
by John O'Connell | Sep 27, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Financial Planning, Investing, Stocks
Inflation is the most spoken word when discussing the state of the economy these days. To kill inflation, interest rates are raised to the point where business and consumers spend less. This causes people to lose jobs. The combination of reduced spending and growing...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Sep 23, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Investing, Stocks
As interest rates continue to rise, there is increasing anxiety in financial markets about the possibility of some kind of credit event. The Financial Times has assembled a list of more than 200 companies that it calls “debt monsters in the downturn”,...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Sep 19, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Investing
Mention Bre-X to anyone who was even remotely following financial markets in the late 1990s and they know exactly what you’re talking about. The company, which claimed it had discovered massive amounts of gold in Indonesia, turned out to be a $6 billion fraud....
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Sep 15, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Disruption, E-Commerce, Investing, Media, Stocks, Technology, Top Ideas
We know stocks are generally down this year. And we know the so-called MegaCap-8 stocks – Netflix, Nvidia, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, and Apple – have also been hit. But it’s instructive and interesting to compare and contrast the...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Sep 13, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Financial Planning, Investing, Stocks, Top Ideas
This has no doubt been a very challenging year for conservative 60/40 investors who have been told for so long that having a decent weighting in long-term bonds will help protect their portfolios during market corrections. We can’t blame them though, as it has been a...
