Doc's note: For decades, if you wanted a cheap, filling meal, you'd head to your favorite fast-food joint. But today, the fast-food industry is experiencing an identity crisis...
Marc Chaikin – founder of our corporate affiliate Chaikin Analytics – explains what's happening with fast-food prices and what you should be looking out for, as an investor...
A buzzer goes off, and chaos erupts as people jockey for position and shouts reverberate off the walls...
It's not a sports game. It's a scene from the 1983 comedy classic Trading Places. Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy are standing in the middle of a futures trading pit as traders call out their orders.
More than half of us are playing "chicken" with time...
That's due to procrastinating on end-of-life planning and not having "the talk" with loved ones about how we want to die.
One of the most exciting sporting events resumes in just a few hours...
March Madness.
While trenches served as subterranean safe havens, they conveniently doubled as burial pits under a certain kind of enemy fire... namely, poison gases like mustard and chlorine.
Since these gases were heavier than air, they sunk into the trenches and could linger there for even weeks. Soldiers breathed in the noxious fumes and suffered painful deaths from asphyxiation and blistered airways and skin.
Doc's note: Lots of folks think investing is a lot like gambling... high risk and a good way to empty your wallet. And in times of uncertainty, like we're seeing today, stocks might seem like an even riskier gamble.
But in today's issue, originally published in Ten Stock Trader, editor Greg Diamond explains how two ideas from a professional gambler can help you reduce your trading risk... without turning you into a gambler yourself.
Fear is ramping up...
The S&P 500 Index has fallen nearly 9% in the last month alone.
Hundreds of years ago, a tomato could kill you...
In the late 18th century, many Europeans called the tomato a "poison apple" because it was believed that a lot of rich folks died from eating them.
If you're worried, take a deep breath...
It has admittedly been a rough couple of weeks for the market.
Last month, legendary actor Gene Hackman died in a way many of us fear...
Alone.