Bill Cara

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My Vision for 2023

January 1, 2023 More decisions are made this year-end holiday weekend than at any other time. Every decision is based on a vision of the future. Tonight, I’ll keep mine simple. I see that 2023 will be the year of the Gold Bull. Gold cash and futures trading reached a

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Are Analyst Consensus Ratings Helpful?

December 30, 2022 While I use analyst ratings in making decisions — at least to a small degree — I have serious doubts at every year-end. This year, in particular, has been a downer with substantial losses in the stock prices of many high-quality companies. Timing is always an issue.

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Should you invest in Tesla right now?

December 17, 2022 Market technicians report that TSLA is oversold and has hit bottom, showing a head-and-shoulders reversal pattern or a cup-and-handle pattern, take your pick. The usual suspects on CNBC are recommending a Buy. To all this, I say nonsense. The facts tell me that Tesla has a problematic

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Updated notes to the Cara 100 (January 1, 2023)

December 12, 2022 Notes Based on Financial Statement Analysis of Cara 100 Companies To help investors select a relatively small group of high-quality companies to study, I created the Cara 100 list. The components usually, but not always, are industry leaders in corporate fundamentals like balance sheet strength and operating

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Are $6.4 Billion in SEC penalties this year enough?

November 17, 2022 My new book promo says, “Bill is on a mission to educate worldwide investors to become market-fluent and independent of Wall Street. His motto is, “Principal owners of capital must take control back from the all-powerful, self-interested, and egregiously conflicted robber barons of the financial services industry.

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Promo for ‘Stock Market Literacy’

I have been warned that all press releases should be capped at 400 words maximum. I was told to say how my life experiences provided the material that would interest anybody in reading the book. The problem is that I could not reduce the text to under 650 words. Now

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A leading government paints a picture of classic stagflation

November 17, 2023 The UK Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said the economy is in recession, predicting the economy to contract by 1.4% in 2023 after 4.2% growth this year. The OBR sees average inflation at 9.1% this year, falling to 7.4% in 2023. So much for “transitory” inflation and economic

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SEC enforcement chief applauds their billions in fines, but to what end?

November 15, 2022 This article should wake up investors. https://www.investmentnews.com/sec-collects-record-penalties-in-fy-2022-enforcement-actions-229214 As long as we must live with the Securities Act of 1933 and the related ones that followed in 1934 and 1940, there is no stopping fraud in the capital markets. I could write books, but nobody in Washington or

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