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Call me old-fashioned, but I believe valuations still matter.

It's easy to see the market hit all-time highs and want to get a little more skin in the game. It's normal to try and ride the hottest stocks higher, betting on more fast gains.

The only way to survive was to eat their dogs...

Douglas Mawson had a mission to map the unexplored areas of Antarctica. So on November 10, 1912, the Australian geologist set out with two men to survey some glaciers several hundred miles away from base camp.

Doc's note: For years, everyone wanted to invest in the "Magnificent Seven." These companies were responsible for most of the gains in the market. But today, Joe Austin, a senior analyst at our corporate affiliate Chaikin Analytics, explains that their reign is over. And if you want to profit from the boom in artificial intelligence ("AI"), you need to look elsewhere...

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In 2016, Wall Street found a new way to get rich. As we always expected, it's all come crumbling down...

For decades, many Americans have seen Wall Street as nothing but a pack of cold profiteers. Financial advisers, investment bankers, and hedge-fund managers would take any "get rich quick" pitch, package it up, and charge you high fees for their services.

Imagine a company so secretive that the main guy in charge of keeping track of all the money has no idea who his boss is...

This company hails back to the horse-and-buggy days – the founder, Frank Brunckhorst, sold his wares out of his carriage in Brooklyn.

Investors love to look back and say they successfully called a market top or bottom.

Most investors, of course, rarely ever pull this off.

Four years ago, hundreds of people perished in a pressure cooker...

It started high up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Northwest...

Doc's note: Good companies can survive a lot... recessions, scandals, or a less-than-stellar product. But one way to ruin a company is through poor leadership.

Today, Marc Chaikin – found of our corporate affiliate Chaikin Analytics – shows just how quickly a bad leader can turn a successful company into a failure...

Twenty-nine Navajo men helped change the course of World War II...

With forces spread around the world, radio communication was essential. But both sides knew how to intercept each other's messages.

Bull markets don't die of old age.

It's something I (Jeff Havenstein) learned very early in my career. You should never underestimate the longevity of a bull market... including the one we're in right now.