If you want to do well in today’s market, ignore this rally. Pay all your attention instead to the only class of companies you need to know about. I call these companies the “best of breed.”  They’re probably the least-talked about companies in the market. Many investors are missing the boat. And that’s a shame.

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.

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?

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?

The revelation of the week in the mainstream press was the 11 people who got million dollar retention bonuses from AIG and no longer work for the company.

How many times have you heard, “the economy won’t turn around until banks start lending?” It’s so damn obvious…