Looking for a good stock broker? Which broker is "good" depends upon what type of investor or trader you are. Jim discusses his seven favorite brokerage features and provides names of those brokers that fit the bill. Read More

Stock market history provides a surprising answer to the question of whether the S&P 500 index will continue falling after five consecutive weeks of decline. But high-yield income investors shouldn't care what the answer is as long as they reinvest their dividends. Read More

After a disastrous regional election, Germany's Christian Democrats have decided to shut down all 17 of Germany's nuclear power plants by 2022. Jim doubts that it will ever actually happen. Read More

Crude oil prices have been very volatile so far in 2011, but the trend is now firmly up. Read More

Bruce Berkowitz is criticizing the U.S. government for selling part of its stake in AIG for only two-thirds of book value. But AIG's book value of $47 may be less real than it appears. Read More

Jim argues that a huge IPO price pop is a sign of failure, not success. Long-term investors in LinkedIn should be very angry at both the investment banks involved and LinkedIn's corporate executives. Read More

Equal-weighted index ETFs are all the rage, but will they continue to outperform their market-cap weighted competitors in the future? Read More

Chris Ryon of the Thornburg Funds describes the values to be found in tax-free municipal bonds. Investor fears of government defaults are -- for the most part -- overblown. Read More

May 1st is only three days away and that brings to the fore the old Wall Street adage "Sell in May and Go Away." But the summer stock market can actually be quite profitable if you know which industry sectors to avoid. Read More

Jim laments Cisco System's mystifying decision to terminate its wildly-successful flip video mini-camcorder business. Has CEO John Chambers lost his mind? Read More