A lot of investing books, good and bad,  come across my desk, but few look as dangerous to investors as the one that arrived yesterday. “The Blue Way: How to Profit by Investing in a Better World”  has a simple and…

Larry Swedroe,  St. Louis’ very own index-investing guru, discusses his latest book in an interview on the IndexUniverse site. The book is called Wise Investing Made Simple: Tales To Enrich Your Fortune, and it uses a series of analogies and stories to…

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, which I wrote about in today’s column, just passed a new milestone in its dramatic fall from grace. The stock is down more than 20 percent his morning, trading at about $5 a share, following yesterday’s report…

The “e” section of the local stocks table will have some big numbers in tomorrow’s paper. Shares of Energizer and Express Scripts both are surging ahead this morning on strong earnings news. Express Scripts raised its 2007 guidance in an…

The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to unclog your inbox. It can’t do much about the sales pitches for Viagra, but it is trying to put a stop to investment pitches that start with teasers like “ready to explode” or…

The Super Bowl won’t be decided for nearly two weeks, but we already know which way the Super Bowl indicator is pointing: It says 2007 should be a good year for the stock market.

That’s because both Super Bowl teams, the…

I don’t know of anyone who invests solely in stocks based on geographical proximity, but based on 20-20 hindsight, a Mound-City-centric  portfolio would have been a winner in 2006. The Bloomberg St. Louis Index of 45 local stocks is up 19.8…

Stuart Freeman, chief equity strategist at A.G. Edwards & Sons, gets accolades as a Fearless Forecaster in the current issue of BusinessWeek.  Among 76 forecasters the magazine polled a year ago, Freeman most accurately predicted the performance of four major stock…

Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of a famous turn  of phrase  that quickly passed from the financial world into the general lexicon. Nexis, in fact, finds the phrase “irrational exuberance” repeated 535 times this year in U.S. newspapers. It was…

We’ve already chronicled how the Cardinals saved the stock market from the terrible fate of a Mets appearance in the World Series. Now reader Wayne Buckhout emails us with even more stunning evidence that by winning the Fall Classic, the birds on…