Entrepreneurial events firm Summit Series acquires Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort for $40m - The Next Web

About an hour’s drive from Salt Lake City, lies Utah’s Powder Mountain. The once sleepy mountain town is about to be reinvigorated as a destination for the world’s most talented creators, artists,…


The first legitimate publicly traded marijuana company GWPH

While doing my reading over the weekend, I noticed a company that went public last week that was strikingly different.  It's GW Pharmaceuticals and I can definitively say this is the first legitimate…


Don't miss the Salt Lake City Investment Survival Workshops

We're excited to announce the  next Investment Survival Workshop.  This is a great time to join us or forward this invite to someone who could benefit from this 90 minute free workshop.  No…


Seeking Blue Revisit

We developed an investment thesis based on the discounted cash flow valuations of some of the most credit worthy companies in the S&P 500.  All of them blue chips, trading at substantial…


S&P 500 Target 1818

This is a revisit of an article I posted on 9-12-2012.  At the time I wrote "with a 2% 10 year risk free Treasury interest rate, the market is just way too low based on one popular measure of…


Market moving events this week and there's a lot of them

Tuesday's consumer confidence number will hardly matter in this Goldilocks's market.  Gloomier outlook will just mean more QE.  A pick up in sentiment might lead credence that there is some kind of…


Anecdotal evidence and an update on Edwards Lifescience

I went on a UCLA school tour last Thursday.  It was striking for a couple of reasons.  For starters UCLA has the largest applicant freshman class of any university in the nation.  I did not now that.…


More than halfway thru earnings season- insiders maintain boycott

We're more than halfway through earning's season and still insiders largely maintain their boycott of buying.  Insiders continue to unload their company's stock on the public even as stock prices…


Twitter hack crashes S&P 500

The S&P futures market lost 15 points in seconds and then regained it.  Obviously a fat finger or computer glitch. Nope, it was the hacked Twitter AP account reporting on a false attack on the…


Three high yielders we like- all with insider buying

KKR FINANCIAL HOLDINGS LLC (NYSE: KFN) is a New York Stock Exchange-listed specialty finance company with expertise in a range of asset classes. KFN’s core business strategy is to leverage the…