Thursday, April 25, 2024
Many of us have heard this old chestnut, usually attributed to Mark Twain: “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” A number of America’s richest people understand this, and are now among the country’s largest landholders. The list includes Jeff Bezos, the Ford family, Dr. Peter Buck (co-founder of Subway), Ted Turner, John Malone, and […]
While the markets remain in a state of turmoil and prices continue to fall, corporate activists have been picking up their pace. Two developing situations are now worth the attention of patient but aggressive investors… Because the potential returns are getting quite big. Here’s what I’m seeing… First, there is the ongoing saga of Kohl’s […]
There is an asset class that’s worth around $3 trillion in the United States. Yet, it is completely ignored by Wall Street and is rarely on investors’ radar screens. The asset class I’m talking about is farmland. No matter the current economic There are already a lot of people to feed—about 7.9 billion—and that number […]
On Monday, shares of Beyond Meat (BYND) were up more than 15% on a volume spike to 4.3 million shares, as compared to daily average volume of 4.06 million. This is all thanks to news that Barclays’ analyst Benjamin Theurer upgraded the BYND stock to an overweight rating, with a price target of $80 a […]
One of my favorite investors (other than Warren Buffett) is Jim Rogers. He and many other high-profile investors have been talking up the prospects for investments in agriculture for the past 20 years. It’s easy to see why. The United Nations estimates that, by 2050, we will need to feed an additional 1.82 billion people […]
