My 3 Worst-Performing Stocks — and Why I Still Own Them

Short-term pain with Molina Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, and Express Scripts stocks could still turn into long-term gains. I own 20 stocks in my investing portfolio, plus a handful of exchange-traded

Tax Secrets of the 1%

How does Warren Buffett pay a lower tax rate than his secretary? Here’s the answer. We’ve all heard stories about wealthy Americans taking advantage of tax laws to avoid paying

Why Apple Inc. Is So Profitable

Scale and efficiency drive Apple’s industry-leading profitability. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the world’s most profitable companies and certainly the most profitable smartphone maker. Per Strategy Analytics (by way of MacRumors), Apple captured

So just where is David Beckham’s stadium site?

Beckham soccer stadium and property for sale

Retired soccer super star David Beckham is reportedly ready to buy the last three acres needed to complete his nine-acre stadium site, which made me interested in exactly where it

What to Do With GSK

Dear Mr. Berko: My husband has been diagnosed with COPD, and I can’t imagine a more frightening medical disorder. He tells me that it feels as if there were an

Reducius Shavius and Inflation

Dear Mr. Berko: I’m taking an economics course in college. We’re learning about inflation, and the professor wants each of us to write a paper on this subject. How do

Boca area emerges as a redevelopment hot spot

Photo of Boca Center shopping center

Crocker Partners wants to create a live/work/play redevelopment between I-95 and Town Center mall in Boca Raton that could include a new Tri-Rail station. The effort would seek redevelopment of

He fought the SEC and won

Banker Alan Levan’s determination to fight the Securities and Exchange Commission paid off on Monday when a federal jury rejected all of the remaining civil fraud claims against him. The case

Did we forget about the national debt?

The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday that would partially repeal and replace Obamacare, but there’s another knotty problem ahead. What are we going to do about the federal budget

ALICE report highlights stark economic struggles

The United Way of Broward County held a discussion Wednesday on the alarming number of families who are on the brink of financial crisis. Nearly half of South Florida’s population is living