Jamie Dlugosch

Jamie Dlugosch

InvestorPlace Writer

Jamie Dlugosch has over 20 years of experience in financial markets including investment banking, equity analysis and research and money management.

Previously, he was the publisher of Al Frank’s Prudent Speculator and CEO of Al Frank Investment Management Inc. He is the founder and editor of The Rational Investor.

Jamie earned his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Sarah, and their two daughters, Julia and Ellie.

Recent Articles

Why You Should Fire Your Financial Advisor Now

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

If your broker or financial advisor did not significantly reduce your exposure to stocks before the latest purge in the Dow, he or she should be immediately fired.

American Express (AXP): Consumers Leaving Home Without It

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

Companies that thrived on consumer borrowing have struggled during the recent credit crunch with much of the focus on those providing home mortgages. What about the credit card companies?

Halliburton (HAL): A Stock for the Long-Term Invetor?

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

For many years now, Halliburton Co. (HAL) has been the poster child for all that is wrong with the Bush administration. From trading in the single digits in 2002, the large oil and gas service company has been propelled forward by policies that greatly favored oil companies.

Mattel (MAT) Continues on Its Two-Year Slump

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

MAT released earnings for its third quarter this week that missed Wall Street expectations. The main reason for the miss was that its costs are rising.

Cliffs Natural Resources: Beaten Down But Not Defeated

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

There are a number of stocks that are in the running to be the poster-child for the recent brutal sell-off in the stock market. In the landscape of bankruptcies and forced mergers is an entire market full of stocks trading from one extreme to another. One to note today is Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF).

Investors, Start Your Engines

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

Are the waters now safe for those buy and hold investors to deploy new capital? One very influential investor says yes, and yes in a big way. Today, the great Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, is out with an article in the New York Times stating that the time to buy is when blood is in the streets.

Banking Sector to Undergo Mass Consolidation

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

Earlier last week Treasury announced that it would be taking $250 billion and buying preferred stock of banks around the country. Half of the money would be used to take positions in nine very large institutions with the rest being deployed across the banking spectrum.

Is Citigroup (C) Strong Enough to Survive?

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

It would be an understatement to say that the housing crunch has absolutely paralyzed this once proud institution -- Citigroup reported on Thursday its fourth straight quarterly loss.

J.C. Penney (JCP): Buy When the Dust Settles

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

September retail sales figures came out this week, and the numbers weren't pretty. It is now clear that the credit crisis is having a very real effect on the economy.

Supervalu (SVU): Focusing on the Essentials

By Jamie Dlugosch, InvestorPlace Writer

One of my favorite grocery stocks, Supervalu Inc. (SVU), has seen its stock drop by more than half as a result of expectations for lower profits.

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