About Money and Markets

Money and Markets is the culmination of eight decades of hard work and research, beginning when my father, Irving Weiss, first went to Wall Street in 1926.

Fortunately, Dad didn’t get caught in the crash of 1929, mainly because he was skeptical of the market’s rise, but also because he didn’t have the money to invest. His parents were recent immigrants to America, with barely enough to keep food on the table.

Nevertheless, Dad was so confident the stock market was going to fall that he borrowed $500 from his mother to go short. By the time the Dow hit rock bottom, he had made close to $100,000.

That’s also around the time he turned bullish, buying GM, AT&T and other Dow stocks with both hands. On the next trading day, they turned sharply higher and just kept going. But Dad’s biggest success was with silver, gold and mining shares.

Years later, he wrote: “The first gold bugs of the twentieth century were friends of mine — including Bernard Baruch, an advisor to several presidents. Together we accumulated gold coins and gold shares when no one else would touch them.”

“Most investors today have no idea how huge the profits were in gold shares in the 1930s. Homestake, for instance, went from a bottom of $65 per share after the crash to $130 and change in 1931. From there, it doubled again to more than $350 a share by 1933. By the time it peaked in 1936, it had climbed to $540 a share — an astronomical gain of more than $470 per share.”

“We tried to get Joe Kennedy, the father of JFK, to join us, recommending that he load up on silver. But his staff was against it. So he missed the opportunity to buy the metal at 17 cents an ounce.”

As I was growing up, Dad was not only a good father, but also a great teacher, mentor, and partner.

In 1972, he encouraged me to take over the family business, and I founded my own company, Weiss Research, Inc.

And a quarter-century later, he passed away. But he has left a great legacy of knowledge and wisdom for me and my entire company.

Today, we publish this free daily investment newsletter, Money and Markets, with the same devotion to quality, service and ethics that my father first brought with him to Wall Street 80 years ago.

Every morning, you will have our up-to-date insights on what we feel is really driving the stock market, oil, energy, gold, investing and the economy. Plus, we tell you where they’re going and what you should do about it.

On Mondays, I give you my views on the big-picture forces that are shaping the world.

Tuesdays, Tony Sagami jumps in with his insights on the good, the bad and the ugly of tech stocks — both here and in Asia.

Wednesdays, it’s Sean Brodrick’s turn, with a focus on small- and mid-cap companies giving you the maximum in potential growth and the minimum in capital exposure.

Larry Edelson is one of the few analysts in the world who has accurately predicted where gold and oil were headed, and said so unambiguously. Thursday is his day to bring you his insights on the yellow metal, energy, and other natural resources.

Friday is the day to you turn your attention to real estate and interest rates. Despite their vital impact on your finances, these are two markets that too many investors misunderstand or ignore. Mike Larson, one of the first to warn of the housing market boom and bust, tracks these markets daily and gives you his analysis each Friday morning.

Saturdays are usually for hot news and premium services. I pick out the single trend that I think is the most important, and I tell you about our premium service I feel can best help you profit from it. Use this weekend edition to stay in synch with the hottest news events. And if you wish, transform these situations into special profit opportunities.

Equally vital to our Money and Markets team here in Jupiter, Florida are Nilus Mattive, our resident expert on dividend-paying stocks and high income … Amber Dakar, dedicated to personal finance and investor education … as well as John Burke, focused on geopolitical conflicts and defense stocks. (For more on the Money and Markets team, click here or search for them by name on Google News.)

The Money and Markets team wants to be there for you every day to give you the support you need to protect and grow your wealth — in good times and bad.