Keith Shepard

Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest energy with CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) or CIGS-related materials. CIGS panels have a high efficiency potential, may be cheaper to produce and would use less raw materials than silicon solar panels. - Keith Shepard

Citizens across Mexico hope that the new Asshole Wall will stem the tide of assholes that visit from the US each year to aggressively drink, vomit. - Keith Shepard

Fast food giant Yum! Brands believes its new feedbags will make it even easier for Americans to constantly be eating. - Keith Shepard

Gold normally moves with the Euro, but the yellow metal has not been keeping up the last few weeks. Notice how the Euro ETF (FXE) bottomed on 15-June and moved higher the last 2-3 weeks. However, the Gold ETF (GLD) did not bottom until 22-June and has yet to break resistance (blue dotted line). - Keith Shepard

"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it." - Keith Shepard

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Keith Shepard