Financial Sense Newshour Big Picture Archive

In this segment of the Big Picture, Jim discusses how recent steps taken in California are the last straw for many business owners, including a personal story of one man's decision to finally leave the state. Secondly, Jim discusses the sad affairs of our nation's infrastructure and how, without any major overhauls or investment, we will simply go from disaster to disaster. 

In this week’s first Big Picture topic, Jim discusses "The Wall of Worry- from Crisis to Catalyst." Jim looks at how once a financial crisis is resolved, it becomes a catalyst, and that is how bull markets begin. Few investors are interested in investing after the emotional toll of a major crisis, but historically that is the best time, as the resolution leads to the next bull market. Jim also answers your Q-Call questions in this segment.

In this segment of the Big Picture, the first topic is: "Gold Stocks−time to reap the rewards." Jim looks at how the gold stocks have underperformed the price of gold, and how this may be about to change for the well-run gold mining companies.

The next Big Picture topic on the advantages of dividend reinvesting and compounding is a take-off on the famous book by Napoleon Hill: "Think and Grow Rich." Jim looks at how dividend investing can save you during long periods of a flat-to-down market. The compounding of dividends over time can make a tremendous difference for those saving for retirement.

In this week’s first Big Picture segment, Jim looks at the "high frequency business cycle"and explains why for the last three years the business cycle is so much shorter than historic norms. In his next Big Picture, Jim explores "A new bull market? There’s something happening here." Since the markets have been consistently crawling up the "wall of worry" this year, there must be something happening of which most investors are not aware.