Growth Mail Archive
4-29-25: Downbeat Sentiment (and Magazine Covers) are Contrarian Buy Signals
by Gary Alexander April 29, 2025 “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett Investor sentiment is way down since late February – and [...]
4-22-25: Three Mid-April Shocks Launched Three “Lost Decades”
by Gary Alexander April 22, 2025 There were three mid-April shocks at the start of three decades in the last century – April in 1930, 1970 and 2000 – which led to [...]
4-15-25: Happy Tax Day and 250th Birthday, America
by Gary Alexander April 15, 2025 It’s Tax Day today. I just sent a sizable check to my Aunt Iris and Uncle Sam, and I suppose many of you did, too. It [...]
4-8-25: Trade Deficits are Not Like Budget Deficits…or Tariffs
by Gary Alexander April 8, 2025 If you’ve followed these columns any amount of time, you know I’m an evangelist for turning around our high and rising annual budget deficits before it’s [...]
4-1-25: Gold is Quietly Dominating the Financial World…Once Again
by Gary Alexander April 1, 2025 The first quarter is officially over. At press time, I don’t have Monday’s final figures to report, but as of Friday’s close, gold and silver are [...]
3-25-25: Is This a Mini-Correction or the Start of a Lost Decade?
by Gary Alexander March 25, 2025 Five years ago, we enjoyed a 20% surge in three days (March 23-26, 2020) after a 5-week bear market. But 25 years ago, on March 24, [...]
3-18-25: Beware the Ides of March … What? Again?
by Gary Alexander March 18, 2025 The week of March 16-20, 2020, brought us the COVID lock-down five years ago. The Fed began the week with an emergency Sunday night meeting and [...]
3-11-25: The Magic Formula for Creating Budget Surpluses (Let’s Do It Again!)
by Gary Alexander March 11, 2025 In August 1997, I first began working with Louis Navellier, launching one of his successful growth stock newsletters. At the time, I was also in the [...]
3-4-25: March in Market History – and Some Great March 4th Inauguration Messages
by Gary Alexander March 4, 2025 March 4th marks Mardi-Gras day in New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro and a few other serious party towns. March 4th was also our national Inauguration Day [...]
2-25-25: All Hail February 25th – a Red-Letter Day in U.S. Financial History
by Gary Alexander February 25, 2025 February 25th, 2025 has a certain symmetry in the way the numbers fall on the page. My-oh my, how true that is! How is it possible that [...]
2-19-25: A President’s Day Formula for Soaring Tax Revenues!
by Gary Alexander February 19, 2025 President’s Day this year (Monday, February 17) marked the midpoint between Lincoln’s birthday (February 12) and Washington’s birthday (February 22). When I was in school, those [...]
2-11-25: Comparing Cruising Stocks from Long Ago to Now
by Gary Alexander February 11, 2025 On January 28th, 2025, the day I began sailing on the latest Jazz Cruise, stock for Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), the parent company for the cruise [...]