Charles Ortel

CHARLES ORTEL: Obama needs commonsense not Gwyneth Paltrow

It does not take a trained psychiatrist to conclude that Barack Obama has lost grip on reality.

CHARLES ORTEL: America nears financial suicide as voters head to the polls

Will you do the right thing and send an unmistakable message to the Obama administration and those who still defend its tragic record of failures?

CHARLES ORTEL: Mideast peace impossible without ‘regime change’ in Iran

Elected Democratic and Republican leaders have struggled for decades pursuing lofty dreams while failing to grasp evident reality in the Middle East.

CHARLES ORTEL: As President Obama hides, the American economy heads for another fall

Scant days before we vote, the tone-deaf suggestions made by partisans that Americans are better off financially in 2014 merely compound woes for Democrats — repeated stridently and arrogantly, these assertions simply prove that Team Obama is economically illiterate, when compared to available evidence.

CHARLES ORTEL: Erdogan’s Turkey an unreliable ally against jihadists

All President Obama does now by counting Mr. Erdogan and Turkey as "allies" is to compound mistakes that he and senior advisers such as Valerie Jarrett make.

CHARLES ORTEL: Long-term investors should fear airlines more than Ebola

International air transportation companies are poised to suffer as capacity continues contracting to align with flagging demand in numerous industries throughout the world.

CHARLES ORTEL: Pakistan is a radioactive ‘powder keg’

Once again, Pakistanis are seething and their combustible nation threatens to erupt.

ORTEL: Bring ‘regime change’ to General Electric

This Friday, Jeff Immelt and the team that leads General Electric Company owe shareholders and the American public answers to a simple question: How will management restore consistent growth in revenues, profits and cash flow to a vaunted enterprise that has floundered since Jack Welch left in September 2001?

CHARLES ORTEL: Bring ‘regime change’ to Qatar

ORTEL: Don’t be fooled by the latest rosy jobs report

Like teachers who turn poor test scores for students into high letter grades using subjective adjustments, government bureaucrats who issued Friday's September jobs report created hollow arguments for political partisans and for surface-level financial analysts that the American economy is rebounding.

ORTEL: Let Warren Buffett have his high-risk “tulip” securities

If you invest, you know that most stocks, bonds and alternatives are expensive once you perform even surface-level analysis — in contrast, gold and certain gold-related assets seem "cheap."

ORTEL: America wins World War III after 2016

Until the 2017 presidential inauguration, we will stew in a dangerous, bipartisan muddle of our own making, absorbing body blows while struggling to remain united as a force for good.

ORTEL: Under President Obama, shoppers flee retailers — investors should too

The way animals quiet and birds flee before natural disasters hit, professional investors months ago presciently cut their exposures to American retailers. Now, a man-made tsunami rushes toward the sector that will crush overleveraged vendors, landlords and communities across the country.

ORTEL: Harness technology to engage lifelong learning

One reason for America's poor relative performance may be the bias ingrained into our country that education is something performed primarily in an institutional setting, outside the home, interacting mostly with teachers.

ORTEL: Secure America’s borders, then welcome productive immigrants

Investing in infrastructure inside Mexico would create employment there, while spurring demand for goods and services American companies might export.

ORTEL: Independence is great for Scotland and for the world

As global investors fret for multiple reasons, an important drama plays out now over Scotland — voters there finally have the chance to cut ties that bind them to union with England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. And Scots should rush through the exit door.

ORTEL: On jobs, economy, markets, Obama is no Reagan

Under Obama, America's addiction to financial leverage inside households, businesses, financial institutions and governments reached epic proportions that severely threaten all of us now

ORTEL: Restore American military supremacy

A nation like America, which spends more money on government than any other, should possess military power that is unmatched and likely, therefore, to remain unchallenged.

ORTEL: Abolish public sector unions

The only sector of the American economy where unions retain a stubborn hold is in government at local, state, regional, and federal levels.

ORTEL: Investors in defense and aerospace can win as World War III erupts

As external events spin beyond control, investors who prudently increase exposure to the defense and aerospace sectors may actually profit while the Obama administration ineptly and inexorably stokes World War III.