Name: John Whitefoot, BA
Bio: John Whitefoot, BA, is an Editor at Lombardi Financial specializing in low-priced investment opportunities. Prior to joining Lombardi, John worked for eight years as the Senior Financial Editor of a leading online financial newsletter. Through his career, John has profiled over 1,000 low-priced stocks researching and covering numerous sectors including healthcare, media, manufacturing, IT, education, hospitality, natural resources, and retail. He's primarily a fundamental analyst who focuses on "off radar" situations with big upside potential for the individual investor. Add John Whitefoot to your Google+ circles
Did U.S. National Soccer Coach Jurgen Klinsmann Cost U.S. Economy $50.0 Billion?
June 26 was a big day in U.S. soccer. Not just because we faced the Germans in a World Cup match that determined (in a roundabout way) whether or not we made it to the … Read More
What’s Really Behind the Headlines for May’s Surging Home Sales
Judging by all the headlines alone, you’d conclude that the U.S. housing market is in full recovery mode (it isn’t) and that the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction (it’s not).
In response … Read More
Student Debt on Course to Sink America’s Economy; Here’s How to Profit
In April, the unemployment rate dropped to 6.3%—its lowest level since 2008. While Wall Street and Capitol Hill might be giving each other high-fives, there is still plenty left to lament.
At 12.3%, the U.S. … Read More
Three Ways to Combat a “Recovery” That Even the Fed Says
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen confirmed what we’ve been espousing in these pages for the last couple of years—that the so-called recovery feels an awful lot like a recession for most Americans.
Addressing a crowd … Read More
Double-Digit Gain or 30% Crash: How to Profit from S&P 500 No Matter Where It Goes
After a miserable winter of weak economic indicators (which were mostly blamed on the weather), the warmer spring weather will be a godsend for Wall Street. Unless, of course, there’s more holding the U.S. economy … Read More
How to Turn Disappointing Housing Data into Greater Returns
Since the beginning of 2012, the U.S. housing market has been considered one of the bright spots in an otherwise uneven economic environment. Between 2007 and the end of 2011, the U.S. housing market fell … Read More
Three Stocks to Profit from New and Old Cars Alike
Spring is finally here, but that certainly doesn’t mean corporate America will cease to use the cold weather as an excuse for abysmal corporate earnings. Throw a dart at any sector, and you’ll find CEOs … Read More
What’s Handicapping First-Time Homebuyers?
For months and months now we’ve been pointing to seemingly obvious economic data to prove that the U.S. housing market is in trouble because of the weak U.S. economy. Those in the “know”—economists and the … Read More
Why Consumers Have Been Increasing Spending in This Sector Since 1994
The U.S. economy is weak. Everyone knows it. We just don’t know where to lay the blame. Businesses on the S&P 500 have been using the weather as an economic scapegoat. And not a small … Read More
Sin Stocks Posting Impressive Gains in Struggling U.S. Economy
As the investing adage of the day goes, “When the going gets tough, the tough get eating, smoking, and drinking.” And there’s plenty of tough economic data out there to send people into the arms … Read More
How to Profit from the Two Things Consumers Can’t Do Without
Another month of cold weather is being blamed for the most recent weak consumer confidence numbers. Consumer confidence levels for the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index fell from 81.6 in February to 79.9 in … Read More
Three Airline Stocks I Think Are Ready to Rebound
Thanks to a number of different factors, airline sector stocks have been on a tear. And thanks to an inverse relationship with the price of oil, strengthening consumer sentiment, the expected increase in business travel, … Read More
Why Investors Should Prepare for a Rebound This Spring
The winter storm that recently tore across the northeastern United States will, no doubt, take the blame for the continuing weak economic news and data that have been coming out of Wall Street. Having been … Read More
Four Companies Rewarding Patient Investors
There’s more to renewable energy than just wind and sun. And thank goodness for that, because our interest and investment in traditional renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind farms seems to be on … Read More
How to Profit from Obama’s Infrastructure Injection
We narrowly averted the first fiscal cliff on January 1, 2013—now, it’s the infrastructure fiscal cliff of 2014! Over the last number of weeks, stories and new reports have been coming out about how much … Read More
This Sector Sure to Benefit as Online Retail Sales Grow
The feeling is mutual: consumers are failing retailers, and retailers are disappointing consumers.
First, let’s look at consumers; apparently, we’re not spending as much as we need to.
During the first month of the year, … Read More
An ETF to Boost Your Portfolio Whatever the Weather
Despite stagnant wages and increased borrowing, Americans ramped up their consumer spending in January. The United States Department of Commerce said earlier this week that consumer spending rose 0.4% in January versus a forecast of … Read More
Should Investors Leave Auto Stocks Behind This Spring?
According to Wall Street, the cold winter weather is responsible for holding back an economy that’s just itching to take hold. And as we’ve recently learned, when it comes to poor earnings and revenues, nothing … Read More
Three Ways to Protect Your Wealth from Global Uncertainty
Nothing helps create volatility on the stock market like the threat of war. And just a few short days after the close of the bloated $52.0-billion behemoth in Sochi, Russia has embraced its ne’er-do-well Olympic … Read More
Three Homebuilders to Short During $336-Billion Housing Gap
I hate to harp on the U.S. housing market so much, but it is a major indicator of the health of the U.S. economy. Following previous recessions, investment in the U.S. housing market increased early … Read More
Following the Weak Durable Goods Data, These Three Plays Look Good
If the stock market is only as strong as the companies that go into making up the index and their earnings are contingent upon consumer spending, then the durable goods numbers don’t really look all … Read More
