How food production will shift closer to the consumer and produce radical changes in the economy — In the course of running Harvest Returns, I have the pleasure of speaking to a variety of farmers and agriculture entrepreneurs every day and learning about their unique business models. A trend that is becoming evident to me is that an increasing amount of American food production is migrating out…

Professional investors and money managers are obsessed with generating alpha, or returns in excess of a greater market benchmark, say the S&P 500 stock index. Alpha can also be compared across various asset categories, such as stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, etc. …

How many of you with a retirement portfolio heavily invested in the stock market are getting a little nervous this week? Listening to financial pundits try to explain how “program trading,” or machine-driven stock selling and buying caused huge swings in market value is unsettling, in the least. More and…

While both experienced financial talking heads and newbies alike are frantic about Bitcoin, most of the investment world continues to tick along as usual. Though I have experience owning a variety of asset classes, I personally have decided not to put any money into — notice I didn’t say invest…

I have personally been burned with investments on a number of occasions and have the scars to prove it. Remember Enron? The company’s stock rose rapidly, and everybody wanted a piece of it. Unfortunately, nobody really seemed to understand how they were making so much money and the accounting on…