Guru Watch

Charles Biderman, whose firm is TrimTabs Investment Research, is often on the cable news networks, particularly CNBC. His firm purports to know where the best places are to invest through their following of money flows of different investor groups. I get asked from time to time by investors what I

Update January 4, 2010: Just over one year ago, I discussed year-end prediction pieces like Fortune's "8 really, really scary predictions." As I surmised back then, the vast majority of these calls would be proven wrong and the common sense advice from folks like FDIC chief

Commentator Glenn Beck, who has a syndicated radio show and hosts a show on Fox (previously had been on CNN) has been a paid endorser for Goldline, a firm that sells gold coins. He joins a long line of pundits I have written about who dispense advice to the public

I recently read Joe Torre and Tom Verducci's book, The Yankee Years (Doubleday) about Torre's reign managing baseball's New York Yankees for twelve years. (Disclosure: I didn't grow up liking the Yankees - most of my childhood was spent being a Phillies

Ben Stein was recently fired by the New York Times (he wrote a bi-weekly column for them) after he appeared in a huge ad campaign for FreeScore. In the ads (see video below), Stein pitches that consumers can supposedly get all three of their credit scores for free from FreeScore.