Beware the Recent Oil Rally
The Liars’ Club is the childhood memoir of American author Mary Karr. It is also a group of oil producers known as OPEC. A few days ago, OPEC and several non-OPEC producers agreed to reduce their...
View ArticleOrganics: The New Plastic
“One word: plastics.” That’s the infamous quote from the equally infamous 1967 movie The Graduate. Had you listened, even a modest investment in companies that contributed ingredients to the...
View ArticleBest of 2016: Crisis Investing in Brazil
Eric Fry, looking backward in order to look forward, reports… Today’s holiday issue of The Non-Dollar Report kicks off the 2016 edition of our annual “Best of the Year” series. Over the next few days,...
View ArticleBest of 2016: Sniffing Out Opportunity in Fertilizer
Eric Fry, sniffing out opportunity in fertilizer, reports… Today’s issue is the second installment of our “Best of 2016” series. Back in August, when gold was flying higher than almost any other asset...
View ArticleBest of 2016: Side-Stepping Risk to Find Reward
Eric Fry, presenting the final column from our “Best of 2016” series, reports… The Non-Dollar Report is not only about seeking reward; it is also about avoiding risk. To that end, we published a column...
View ArticleCan You Handle the Truth About India and China?
I’ve read a number of reports from experts extolling the virtues of investing in India and China. One even had India as the best investing idea for 2017. I just returned from both countries after...
View ArticleBringing Back American Jobs
I’m all for bringing jobs back. I’m all for seeing Americans’ stagnant wages rise from the depressed levels they’re at today. But I want the real picture… not smoke blown up my you-know-where. First,...
View ArticleNatural Gas Is on the Front Burner
Eric Fry, warming up to natural gas, reports… Back on July 14, 2016, when natural gas was still trading close to its lowest levels of the last two decades, my intrepid colleague Sean Brodrick declared,...
View ArticleSell “Bricks”…Buy “Clicks”
It’s official: “Clicks” are beating up on “bricks”… which is very bad news for the real estate investment trusts (REITs) that hold shopping malls and other retail properties. “Clicks,” or online retail...
View ArticleEarnings Season in Full Swing
Shares of our two recent recommendations, Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (OTC: RYCEY) and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), are both higher than our entry levels. In the case of Rolls-Royce, earnings came out on...
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