Your Survival Guy’s been watching lumber prices. I reported here and here that much of the increase was due to a bottleneck at sawmills. (There’s plenty of trees, just no excess capacity at the mills creating finished lumber.) Lumber futures reached a high of $1,711.20 per thousand board feet in May. On Tuesday, July futures […]
Investing
Americans Face Rising Gas Prices as “Woke” Wall St. Starves the Oil Industry
Prices of gasoline and heating oil are rising as ‘woke’ Wall St. money managers (covered extensively by Your Survival Guy) have chosen to starve the oil industry of investment. They’re using investor dollars to advance their own personal political causes, and the end result is hurting American families, while enriching authoritarian regimes like those in […]
How to Take Charge of Your Own Health
Throughout my career, I’ve considered most of the advice given to individual investors as B.S. I’ve been in the professional investment advice advisory industry since 1971, when I first started speaking at major money conferences around the world, trying to help investors separate the investment chaff from the wheat. In the mid 90s, Money Magazine […]
Should You Take the Dividend Blood Oath?
I have always been passionate about dividends, and if you learn to understand their power, you will be too. I even told readers in 2002 to take a blood oath to buy only dividend payers. Alarmed? While I was joking about the blood oath, I was very serious about the power of dividends in an […]
EGO: BlackRock CEO Goes Woke with Investor Money
You have read about Larry Fink using your money for everything but profit. His use of ESG investing, i.e. using investor funds like a piggy bank to push his environmental and social agenda, hurts Fink’s trustworthiness. It’s not about investors, it’s about Fink’s ego. At Real Clear Markets, Peter Flaherty has written a brutal takedown […]
PRINTING PRESS INFLATION KICKING IN!
Soaring commodity prices are symptomatic of printing press inflation kicking in! The WSJ reports: The run-up in commodity prices is casting a cloud over the global economic recovery, slamming vulnerable businesses and households and adding to fears that inflation could become more persistent. The world hasn’t seen such across-the-board commodity-price increases since the beginning of […]
Your Emails and Comments on Med School Talk
In my conversations with you, you’re telling me you liked Your Survival Guy Presents to Prestigious Med School. I turned it into a Special Report: How To Invest After Graduating College so you can give it to someone you care about who’s just starting out with their career. If you haven’t read the piece, you […]
Your Survival Guy Presents to Prestigious Med School
Excerpts from my Wednesday presentation to recent grads and associates of an esteemed NYC med school: How to Invest and Create Wealth You’re asking me how to invest. Here’s what I recommend: Start early, participate in your company’s 401(k), reduce your debt, cut your spending, save ‘til it hurts, work as long as you can, […]
Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
The U.S. government must finally wise up and put an immediate end to the insane double taxation of dividends. The government, facilitated by the Fed, is in an ongoing war to destroy the value of the dollar by printing money beyond any reasonable rate of expansion. Simply take a look at real estate prices to […]
Living Your Best Life: Your Calls & Emails to Me
Your Survival Guy is working in the trenches for you. And that’s OK. I like the view from where the boots hit the ground. It’s where the real stuff happens. Here’s what you’re telling me this week: “Hello, E.J. Let me know your thoughts when you receive my Secure Upload. I’m sending statements from family […]
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