Bond guru Bill Gross of PIMCO is finding value in at least one area of the stock market: utilities. In his monthly investment commentary on PIMCO’s web site, Gross talks extensively about the sub-1% money market yields that investors are faced with amid the Federal Reserve’s low- ... Read more

Science Friday Archives: The Science of Decision-Making: "Paper or plastic? Steak or salmon? Stay or go? Every day, we make thousands of decisions, most minor, some major. But how does your brain make the choice? In this hour, we'll take a look at the science of decision making. Can your genes influ ... Read more

From Columbia Unviversity. WOW.Public Offering : Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great: "On November 12, 2009, Warren Buffett, MS ’51, and Bill Gates met with more than 700 students, faculty members and alumni from Columbia Business School in a town hall event, which was filmed for ... Read more

YouTube - Other People's Money speech by Danny DeVito: "Other People's Money speech by Danny DeVito"If you want to feel old, mention this movie in class, virtually no one has heard of it. Fortunately some of it is still online. Here is Jorgy's speech, and here is Danny Devito's ... Read the full ... Read more

Roughly one month ago – the week of October 19th – we at the Residual Income Report issued a missive entitled “The Best Play on Gold ‘Strength’,” wherein we invited our respected readership to engage in a ‘zero premium’ trade using Hecla (NYSE:HL) and the ishares silver trust (NYSE ... Read more

Hulu - The Office: Shareholder Meeting - Watch the full episode now.HT to Nminow ... Read the full post ... Read more

G10 Advancers and Decliners vs USD JPY 0.05 EUR -0.44 CHF -0.53 GBP -0.86 There have been very few newsworthy events in today’s session, and even the handful of scheduled speakers lined up had very little effect on FX markets. The only driver therefore has been the perform ... Read t ... Read more

Longtime CNN anchor and commentator Lou Dobbs joined me on last night's Kudlow Report to discuss Omama-nomics, Tim Geithner, the demise of the dollar, the threat of American declinism, immigration, trade policy and other hot button issues. ... Read the full post ... Read more

Earlier this week, Applied Materials (AMAT) announced that it was acquiring Semitool (SMTL) in a $364 million all-cash deal. As we’ve footnoted before, Semitool had an interesting side-deal with CEO Ray Thompson that had the company leasing several planes and an aircraft hangar ... Read ... Read more

Dell (DELL) unloads poor results on its investors and watches as 10% of its value disappears. No significant comment from management they just put the numbers out there and watched the slaughter. All this in the context of buying EDS which supposedly is a game changer. No leadership in communication ... Read more