Frank Beck is the President and Chief Investment Officer at Beck Capital Management, an investment management firm based in Austin, Texas.
Market View June 2010: Waiting for November
Individual investors and business appear to be on hold, wondering about the economy, company earnings, and the next blow from Washington. Quarterly earnings reports will begin next week and though the economy may be slow, I expect earnings to look good. Then we have the mid-term elections just over four months away, where we can…
Market View May 2010: Greece, Europe’s Achilles Heel
The jury is still out on whether this bull run will continue or not. In the past five recessions, the following bull markets have each experienced 3 to 6 bearish retreats, while the bull continued to run. The major U.S. indexes have now retreated about 12% each, in the last month, while most overseas indexes…
BCM in the News
“Cue the Helicopters – Dollar Devaluation is Here” March 24, 2009 The world’s financial powers seem to understand that the U.S. needs to print its way out of this mess. In my Forbes.com column on Dec. 9, 2008, “Dollar Devaluation To Fix The Great Recession,” I suggested that the government consider an overnight devaluation of…
