You can’t go back. So don’t assume that as the U.S. and the West recovers, they’ll attract foreign capital just like they did before the recession. It’s a far different landscape now. The easy-credit bubbles are gone. And they’ve left us with a hellacious debt burden.

Leave it to the government. It’s proposing a “tax and cap” regime for energy producers which will require fossil-fuel generating plants to pay extra.  The idea is to encourage clean fuels and discourage dirty ones. That’s fine in theory. But instead of helping our future energy situation, it’s going to make it a lot worse.

First-quarter earnings reports for the big banks weren’t bad on the surface. But banks had to pull some rabbits out of the hat to do it. For example, Goldman Sachs skipped December in order to post improved numbers.

It’s the perfect time to make money from some of the world’s fastest-growing markets as long as you invest in them the right way.

Native Tennessean John Templeton saw Hitler’s army roll up one Central European country after another and then take aim at Western Europe. Companies left and right were falling into bankruptcy. Stocks were nose-diving, many going for under historic lows. So what did John do at the height of this nightmarish freefall?

China’s stock market is back to where it was one year ago. But what exactly does that mean for your portfolio?The World Bank just upped China’s economic growth projection from 6.5 percent to 7.2 percent. If China’s economic rebound is real, it would open up all kinds of investment opportunities.

No commodity has disappointed more than uranium. But don’t let that put you off. Now is the perfect time to become a uranium buyer (I’m assuming that you’re not the head of state of either North Korea or Iran!).

The moment of truth is approaching for the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT). As interest rates nudge upwards, the price of these long-term government bonds have been falling.

Weak economic fundamentals say the market should start heading down. But what do the charts say?