What will ignite tech next?

I had more questions from Markewatch.com readers this week than ever before. If you’ve got a question about investing, trading, markets, economics, politics or anything else I can help you with, email me at support@tradingwithcody.com. Here are this week’s questions about specific tech stocks and my best attempt at answering them. Q. Cody, are there [...]

Mr. Willard goes to Washington

I spent the last week in Washington, touristing, taking meetings, and talking to everybody rich or poor, powerful or powerless that I met. I discussed geopolitics, bailouts and economics with immigrants from Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Mexico and Italy. I ran into former head of the FDIC, Sheila Bair, whom I’ve interviewed on TV several times, [...]

Gold, silver, and real estate will save you

Gold and silver and stocks and bonds and real estate and cash and checking accounts and money market accounts and taxes and bailouts and crises and terrorism and corruption. I’m sure I left a lot out, but those are some of the topics I’ve been addressing for my subscribers and in Washington while I’m here [...]

Making money in an $80 trillion economy

With 7 billion people out there for you to engage, for you to sell something to, or to buy something from, or learn from using YouTube, Twitter,  Facebook, a plane, a boat, a car, a phone, a blog, or at the bar, there’s never been a better time to take advantage of the upside of [...]

Best play on the “Most Disruptive Technology Ever”

What are the major disruptive technologies, ie, Revolution Investment themes, that have made people rich over the last decade? 1) Internet sites — Yes, despite all the dot-com companies that went bankrupt and all the fortunes that were lost gambling on pie-in-the-sky ideas like Pets.com and Webvan, the dominant Internet destinations have become de facto [...]

Apple stock-crash conspiracy and other truths

I am giving all my Twitter followers my Amazon #1 best-selling investing ebook, Everything You Need to Know About Investing, a $9.99 value, for free. Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard for more details. I learn a lot from the questions and dialogue I have with readers and investors around the world. This week’s Q&A highlights include several fascinating questions [...]

Dow 20,000? How’s your economy doing?

Oh my goodness, stop the press. Did you hear about the EU debt crisis? Don’t you know that the sovereign debt and banking crisis in the EU is going to derail the U.S. multinational corporate boom and matching bull market? Here’s the Trader’s Chart of the Day, a history of the Google search trends for [...]

What’s next for this huge market bubble?

It seems everybody’s bullish, the markets are great, and the Federal Reserve says that we’re still in dire need of “emergency measures” like 0% interest rates (ZIRP), QE Infinity, and all kinds of other tricks to keep this juggernaut going. You hear people say we’re headed into a new stock market bubble and that you [...]

The single biggest threat to the economy and markets

As the markets continue to rally and hit yet new all-time highs again today, let’s pause a moment and remember what it felt like the last time the markets crashed and were down 10% from their highs. It was economic issues in the EU. Or was it a nuclear melt down in Japan? Maybe it [...]

Yup, Google now worth more than Microsoft

One other item I want to mention before I kick it up here. I get a lot of questions about how to filter reality and reliable news from propaganda and hype. I have created RevolutioNews.com, a news site totally curated by yours truly, for my readers. You can see my commentary on each news item [...]