“Planet Earth is probably the riskiest it has been since the day before the meteor landed in the Yucatan and wiped out most life.” -- Donald Coxe This is an eye-opener. Whenever I talk about the Great Depression and compare it with what is going on today, I get a lot ...read more

Many are suggesting that the recent bull market is over and the time to sell is here. Let’s let the charts do the talking… The Dow Industrials MAY be in the process of forming a potential Head and Shoulders Top as shown below. A break of the green support line opens ...read more

When you are about to invest in a penny stock, the number one question you need to ask yourself is: What’s the catalyst? Without some big event or monolithic development coming down the road, there’s no reason for investors to care about these tiny companies. You see, the majority of investors are ...read more

Last week, I told you about a semimonopoly in the water business. Water, as you probably know, is a favorite theme of ours here at Penny Sleuth. It’s a commodity that most take for granted, but someday soon, will be a huge issue for billions of people. Actually, it already ...read more

Water is, by far, the most important element we need to survive. You can go a month without eating, but not even a week without water. Lack of adequate drinking water has killed almost 800,000 people this year. Now politicians are throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at water and wastewater ...read more

Since the markets found a short-term bottom in March, we’ve witness the meteoric rise of many beaten-down small-caps. And of all the names and sectors that rebounded this spring, none was more impressive than the resort and casino stocks. Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) and MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM) rocketed to ...read more

I was reading Marty Whitman’s new book Distress Investing. The book is about investing in distressed situations that will involve reorganization, possibly via the bankruptcy process. As the “Principles and Techniques” subhead implies, the book is mainly for practitioners. However, in the course of some rather technical discussions, Whitman makes ...read more

Whether you knew it or not, you bought shares of General Motors (NYSE: GM) this year. We all did. With America’s biggest small-cap on the brink of becoming insolvent, Uncle Sam has been quick to step into the driver’s seat, forking over billions of dollars in bridge funding that could entitle ...read more

Could a new IPO mean that the market’s really on the way to a rebound? This week, Solarwinds (NYSE: SWI) became the first venture capital-backed initial public offering (IPO) in more than nine months. That’s a significant event for those who watch the IPO market… it’s also significant for the rest ...read more

When Barack Obama became the most powerful man in the world just five short months ago, he knew he would have plenty of important people to thank. After all, no one is elected president alone. It takes power to make power — Obama knows this. He enlisted the help of influential ...read more