Apr 28, 2023
Super Active 32-Year-Old Dealmaker Is Japan’s Newest Billionaire
Shunsaku Sagami, the founder and CEO of M&A Research Institute Holdings, a mergers and acquisitions brokerage, is Japan’s newest billionaire.
ByZinnia LeeForbes Staff
Nov 30, 2020
The New Hot Hotel To Try Next Year: Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto
A new hotel opened in Kyoto in November combining contemporary luxury with a rarity for a Japanese city hotel: an onsen pool fed by natural hot springs.
ByLaurie WernerContributor
Aug 7, 2020
How Does The U.S. Army Expect To Hide A Giant Warehouse Full Of Weapons From China?
For decades, the Army’s expeditionary forces have relied on stores of gear prepositioned around the world to rapidly deploy. Problem is China knows where the warehouses are and has plans to destroy them. Now a think-tank is proposing the Army hide its prepositioned weaponry.
ByDavid AxeForbes Staff
Sep 1, 2016
3 Clear Signs The US Stock Market Is Doomed
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been going sideways ever since the Commerce Department reported that retail sales in July came to a grinding halt (0.0%). At the same time, companies including Starbucks, McDonald’s, Ford, Burberry, and Gap are reporting disappointing sales. That means trouble in shopping paradise. Target just reported a [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Aug 25, 2016
3 Ways To Profit From The Stressed-Out American Consumer
A sign advertising bad credit auto loans is seen in the windows of a vehicle dealership in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, March 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Retail sales are a pretty good proxy for consumer spending. So to me, any nationwide drop in retail sales is a warning flag about [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Aug 22, 2016
Commodities Are The Best Bargain Now -- Here's What To Buy
A French farmer stacks wheat straw bales on August 16, 2016 in Gace, northwestern France.France, the European Union's biggest grain producer, is headed for its smallest wheat harvest in three decades because of heavy rains and lack of sunlight. / AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER (Photo credit should read JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP/Getty [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Aug 15, 2016
Here's Why You Should Look For Dividends -- And How
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 13: Warren Buffett speaks onstage during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 2 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc) I love dividends, and I’m not alone. One of the biggest dividend lovers of [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Aug 4, 2016
3 Recent Danger Signs Of A Looming Recession
Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney hosts his quarterly Inflation Report press conference at the Bank of England in central London, on August 4, 2016.The Bank of England on Thursday cut interest rates to a record low 0.25 percent in a vast stimulus package aimed at preventing recession [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jul 31, 2016
3 Signs IBM Is In Big Trouble--And How The Company Masks It
Brian Greenstein of IBM Watson's IOT platform speaks during an interview following the launch of the 'Olli' autonomous shuttle at the Local Motors facility in the National Harbor, Maryland on June 16, 2016.(MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) I got a lot of positive feedback on my recent column, “Anatomy of a Successful Short [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jul 21, 2016
Retailers Are Doomed As Most Americans Are Too Poor To Shop
We are entering the heart of earnings season. It may be a wild one as Wall Street’s outlook is quite poor. The consensus Wall Street estimates for Q2 profits of the S&P 500 is a 5.6% fall (YOY). That would be the fifth quarter in a row of falling corporate profits. The [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jul 14, 2016
4 Signs The Global Housing Bubble Is Already Bursting--Here's What To Do
Traffic travels along a highway at night in the Central district of Hong Kong, China, on Monday, June 27, 2016. Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg It’s déjà vu. Home prices in major cities are at the same levels (or even higher) than prior to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Economic conditions, however, are very different [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jun 24, 2016
How I Made A 21% Gain By Shorting One Stock
Traders John Panin, left, and Thomas Ferrigno work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, June 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) I get a lot of questions about short selling, probably because most investors have never done it. Short selling is the sale of a borrowed stock in anticipation [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jun 17, 2016
Here's A Trillion-Dollar Investment Opportunity For The Few People Who Don't Have Debt
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Politicians and central bankers throw the word “trillion” around as if it were chump change, but a trillion dollars is a huge mountain of money. A trillion is equal to a thousand billions (1,000 x 1,000,000,000). 1,000 = one thousand 1,000,000 = one million 1,000,000,000 = one billion 1,000,000,000,000 = one trillion Here’s another [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jun 13, 2016
The US Consumer-Driven Economy Has Hit A Brick Wall
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi (R) talks with Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Janet L. Yellen (L) during a photo session of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in the hot spring town in Sendai on May 20, 2016. Finance [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jun 10, 2016
Americans Take On Debt Like There's No Tomorrow-Here's How to Cash In
I’m not suggesting that you rush out and buy any of these stocks tomorrow morning. As always, timing is everything, but the business of lending money, when done properly, is a fantastically profitable endeavor.
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor
Jun 9, 2016
Former Fed President: All My Very Rich Friends Are Holding A Lot Of Cash
If you put together a list of the world’s most brilliant, most famous investment experts… they were all at John Mauldin’s Strategic Investment Conference last month. My head is still spinning with all the information and investment ideas I heard at the conference, but the consensus among the majority of speakers [...]
ByTony SagamiFormer Contributor