In the opening scene of the film, The Graduate, the operative word was “plastics.”  Today, Dustin Hoffman is all grown up, though that scene remains a movie classic.  For billionaire Jeremy Grantham the new word for this era is “topsoil.”  Necessary to feed a burgeoning glo

Several years ago, I bought an oil stock that ended up a gusher and pumped up my portfolio nicely.  Later,  I sold it at its peak which made me and the IRS happy.  Since that time, the company has lost value because there’s an oil glut around the world.  In fact, the United Stat