Rick Ackerman
Rick Ackerman Articles
As the threat of a global computer meltdown in the new millennium bears down on us, one should expect to see growing signs of nervousness in corporate board rooms and on Wall Street.
Yet in both places, optimism and cool confidence...
I have greatly enjoyed hearing from readers, especially the combative ones who have argued, in effect, that this bull market will continue forever. Herewith, a response to some of your comments and queries.
You predicted the Dow...
When a bull market takes leave of its senses as this one surely has, what's an investor to do?
If you're planning to cash out near the top, there's just one answer: toss prudence overboard.
Put it in a burlap bag with a cinder block,...
Who'd have guessed that rumors of adultery in the White House would be bullish for stocks?
Or so it would seem. The Dow Industrials have gained more than 150 points since January 17, when reports of an affair between Bill Clinton and 21-...
Business couldn't be better, consumers are as confident as they've been inyears, the dollar is king and interest rates are bouncing near multi-year lows.
Not much for U.S. investors to worry about, right?
Think again. That strong dollar...
With Asia's financial markets festering seemingly beyond remedy, Japan mired in near-depression, and the locomotive economy of South Korea in danger of seizing, why has Wall Street barely flinched?
Even after Friday's scary drop, which...
To understand why the coming bear market will be far more destructive than any before it, ponder the cataclysm that befell the fictional planet Altair-4.
It was there, as depicted in the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet," that Krell...
