I tell ya, I would not want to be Ben Bernanke for all the tea in that great capitalist nation they call China. Just kidding, well, maybe not; Communist China’s corporate tax rates are lower than ours and their capital gains rate on stocks is a friggin donut hole, but I digress. About Mr. Bernanke [...]

Had someone told me last Monday that, before week’s end, we’d see Apple, Google, Hewlett Packard, Amazon and JP Morgan (just to name a few) blow away analysts’ earnings estimates, I’d have said we’d now be staring at a Dow a lot less than a thousand points away from 11,000. But even after these bellwethers [...]

I find great joy in great commercial experiences. Whether it’s an exchange with a waiter or waitress at a restaurant, a car wash attendant (people I tip) or my dentist, I so appreciate smart business people serving the public with courtesy and professionalism. Apple stock was already up a hundred percent this year when they [...]

The dollar/market relationship I wrote about Monday (dollar up/market down & vice versa) is clearly playing itself out today. In spite of very good reports from Google, etc., stocks look to be giving back a little ground. The “experts” will site the disappointing housing starts number (which shows stabilization, but not rapid growth of late), [...]

Is this seven month stock market rally the real deal? Does Dow 10,000 reflect improved corporate earnings, a rebounding economy, record low interest rates and trillions of sideline cash? Or, is it no more legitimate than the current homerun record? The doubters tell us that the market’s recent gains result from nothing more than some [...]