Ten years ago, the electric vehicle revolution was coming. It was a future dream.Today, it's happening. The dream has become a reality.And even though the EV business has grown significantly over the past several years, the market is just now prepared to really take off.Global electric vehicle production is expected to increase by more than 30X in the next 15 years alone!The world's wealthiest and...Read More

"Go pound dirt." I wanted to laugh, but it really wasn't a laughing matter. Back in September, Volkswagen was looking to ink $60 billion worth of long-term supply contracts with the world's top cobalt miners. That plan blew up right in its face.And the response above was about as gracious as those miners were willing to be. Of course, this rejection puts quite a damper on VW's goal to shift to ele...Read More

Dear Antifa,Look, aside from a very small number of psychopaths, everyone agrees that fascism is not an ideal form of government.But you need to rethink your anti-capitalism position.Fact is, capitalism does not breed the conditions to create fascism.Capitalism works to prevent fascism.The core component of capitalism is the private ownership of property - the most important to this discussion be...Read More

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."This quote from George Santayana has been stuck in my head for weeks, perhaps months. It's hard to tell at this point.Maybe I'm just getting paranoid in the pre-dawn hours here in Baltimore, or maybe my readers have noticed something peculiar taking place, as if they've seen it before.And you can bet we're doomed to repeat our mistake...Read More

It's not new, yet very few investors know it exists.Some have even called it the "secret pot stock exchange" because so few investors know about it. But those who do are making a fortune.For instance, take a look at this small Canada-based marijuana company that's listed on this "secret exchange."Now, I've censored the name of this particular stock because it's currently in my Green Chip Stocks po...Read More

As you read this, I'll be on a plane to the second-most crime-infested country in the world: Mexico. Don't tell my wife, but in 2016 there were over 23,000 homicides south of the border. According to NPR, in terms of homicides per capita, it ranks behind only Syria.That's a little disconcerting, but I'm going there because it could give you the investment opportunity of the decade. And you need...Read More

Two weeks ago, we talked a bit about Tesla.Okay, I gushed. But we did eventually get down to one of the company's main problems: price.See, Tesla's cars are beautiful, clean, and still just a little too pricey for the average buyer.There's only so much the company can do about that, however.The batteries themselves are the most expensive part of the car, and the whole world has been working on the...Read More

The marriage between Saudi Arabia and the United States occurred decades ago, when two old men met on Valentines Day in 1945.Sitting in their respective wheelchairs, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud sat down aboard the USS Quincy and formed a friendship between the two countries that has shaped our lives more than most people will ever truly realize.Whether or not they officially broach...Read More

It's no secret that renewable energy has been a growing field for many years. Over the past decade, solar energy generation has been getting all sorts of press.But at the same time, wind power has been quietly stealing market share from both traditional fuels like coal and natural gas and from solar as well. And it's poised to grow even faster in the coming decades.It makes you wonder if wind ener...Read More

The fight between hydrogen fuel cells and lithium batteries in the transportation space may be coming to an end.And not because one has finally won out over the other...In fact, if you were able to listen to Wealth Daily's latest podcast featuring Andy Marsh, CEO of fuel cell company Plug Power Inc., you already know where the industry could be headed in the next few years.I'll be spotlighting the...Read More

A few years ago, a friend told me one of the most gut-wrenching investment stories I've ever heard.Years ago, she'd gotten a temp job working a table at a computer convention.While checking out the various tables, she quickly found herself in a long conversation with a rep from one of the dozens of tech companies that were set up.He even offered to let her buy a few shares of the company right the...Read More

Valued at about $21 billion, it's one of the world's most valuable privately held companies.Early investors include Google, Fidelity, and Elon Musk himself.Make no mistake, SpaceX is one of the most exciting companies any of us will ever see in a lifetime, as it has invented and now operates reusable rockets.This is huge!In fact, Forbes says it has transformed America's economic future:Elon Musk a...Read More

Saudi Arabia had a tough weekend.Missiles were fired from Yemen into Saudi Arabia. The missiles were aimed at an airport outside of Riyadh, which is about 620 miles from Yemen. The Saudis used a U.S.-built Patriot surface-to-air anti-missile battery.Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the familiar Wall Street billionaire, was arrested over the weekend on corruption charges. He was a big investor in early i...Read More

On Thursday, President Trump announced he will nominate Jerome Powell for chairman of the Federal Reserve.It's a move that's likely to please banks and other financial institutions.Mr. Powell has been a Fed governor since 2012 and was a former Treasury official during the Bush, Jr. administration.But, unlike his predecessors, Powell is not an economist by training. Before joining the Treasury Depa...Read More

Two years ago, on December 18, 2015 - a date that will burn in the minds of every young Saudi Prince - Congress actually did something right.You may not have seen it coming, given the fact that at the time Congress had an 82% disapproval rating.But it happened.That was the day it voted to lift the 40-year oil export ban that was set in place back in 1975.WTI crude was trading right around $43 per...Read More

Yesterday we caught wind of yet another interesting government pick by President Trump.It won't be official until later today, but it looks like Jerome Powell will be named the next chairman of the Federal Reserve (assuming, of course, that he is confirmed by the Senate).Powell is currently acting as governor of the Fed, working under Janet Yellen.And before you start cheering at the idea of Yelle...Read More

All throughout history, people have associated volcanoes with Hell.Or at least they've associated volcanoes with what we'd call "Hell" today - a fiery place of punishment and torment in afterlife.In the 16th century, when the Spanish conquered modern-day Nicaragua, they first encountered the Masaya caldera. They looked inside the fiery pit and, staring down into the burning abyss, they nicknamed i...Read More

I was told yesterday that the biggest hurdle for Tesla is making its vehicles cool enough for the public.I know that's wrong.Look, here's what it comes down to...The problem for billionaires like Elon Musk isn't convincing people to drive his electric vehicles, but whether or not he'll be able to make those EVs in the first place.For Tesla, it'll become a full-blown crisis in short order...And if...Read More

I imagine you're tired of hearing about Bitcoin. If you are, I have good news for youToday we aren't going to talk about Bitcoin. Instead, I want to take this opportunity to talk about other ways digital currencies are making waves. You see, when most people think about digital currency, they tend to put on what I call "Bitcoin Blinders."By that I mean there is so much buzz about the world's fir...Read More

The Herd Buys at LastIn 2009, when I was recommending gold stocks that were trading below the amount of money they had in the bank, no one wanted to buy. These stocks went up more than 3,000%.Here we are eight years later, and finally your neighbors are dumping money into stocks. In the United States, equity funds brought in their largest inflows in six months.Reuters recently said that $7.5 billi...Read More