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Tilray Stock Is Horribly, Offensively Overvalued
Remember around Christmastime when Bitcoin pushed towards a price of over $19,300 for a single Bitcoin? It was an absurd bubble in that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, and some order has been restored...
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The Difference Between An Investor And A Trader
“Don’t fight the tape” is one of those old Wall Street adages that shows up in different permutations and derivations when you read financial commentary. Humphrey Neill once said “Don’t follow the...
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The Best Kept Secret Of The Long-Term Dividend Investor
We dividend investors have one tool in our arsenal that makes the world of a difference over time: every time a company chooses to return some of its cash to shareholders in the form of a dividend,...
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Warren Buffett Tip: Pretend The Stock Market Shut Down For Ten Years
Quick. Take a look at your portfolio. Pretend that someone just told you that the stock market was going to close until January 1st, 2023. If you knew that you could not sell any of your current...
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Standard Oil: The Different Fates Of The Three Rockefeller Brothers
When I read the biographies of America’s most famous self-made men and titans of industry, there is one character trait that seems to always be a common denominator that they all share: an unrelenting...
View ArticleK-1 Fears For MLP Taxes Are Overblown
If some people choose not to invest in a particular master limited partnership because the underlying energy holding contains too much debt, I don’t blame them. That is sound investment analysis! If...
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A Stock Does Not Know You Own It
One of the oldest Wall Street aphorisms is this: “A stock does not know you own it.” Usually, this quote crops up during a conversation between someone who got burned by an investment in a particular...
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Dividend Investing: A Survivor’s Guide For Life
Over the course of the 20th century, the valuation for a “typical” S&P 500 stock shifted upward from a P/E ratio of about 10 to a P/E ratio of about 17. Unless you happen to have a nice taste and...
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The Risk of Gold, Silver, and Commodities Investing
As many commodities investors may be all too aware, the price of gold has fallen in recent months to the $1,200-$1,300 range and the price of silver has fallen to around $20 per ounce. With these...
View ArticleWhy Recipe Blogs Contain Stories Before The Recipe
If you do your own cooking, you will find yourself googling recipes. This sounds like a boring, rudimentary task. If you are trying to make chocolate chip cookies, you won’t merely find a website...
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Dividend Investing: Make A Lot of Money Without A Lot Of Work
When Walt Disney was asked to explain the biggest problem in his life, he answered: “Money. I always needed more money.” When we think big picture about the ways in which we can make money, there are...
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Warren Buffett’s Stock Advice That Changed My Life
I want to share with you this short excerpt from Warren Buffett’s 1988 Letter to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, because it is on the short list of investing quotes that have had a long-lasting...
View ArticleHow To Build Wealth From Scratch
An acquaintance of mine serviced vending machines near campus as a part-time job in college. At some point, he purchased and acquired actual ownership of seven of the vending machines that he...
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Oil Stock Dividend Safety
Lately, I’ve been reviewing the relationship between dividends and earnings (as well as cash flow) among five of the six energy supermajors on the planet: ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell,...
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How To Avoid Panic Selling Your Stocks
One of the crazy things about stock market investing is that we can unload a stock on a whim. We could spend three decades owning some Exxon stock passed down to us from our great-grandparents,...
View ArticleWD-40 Is An Undiscovered Gem Of An Investment
Edward H. Heller, the famed venture capitalist of the early 20th century, had a knack for spotting small-cap stocks that would make their investors a lot of money as they grew to become mid-cap stocks....
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Dividend Investing In The Context Of Your Life
I spent much of the last evening reading a biography on Judy Garland (Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz). I was surprised to learn, at least from the biographer’s point of view, how sad and unhappy most...
View ArticleLong-Term Investing Is Easier Than You Think
I got my hands on a Kiplinger Magazine from 1990 the other day, and one article was a list of the “Top 10 Picks For The Next Decade” by an investment club that had monthly meetings in Texas. The ten...
View ArticleThe Search for 20% Annual Returns
As some of you know, I analyze and discuss attractive stocks in the market over on Patreon, which you can assess here. However, since I have done a terrible job of marketing it, I wanted to include an...
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Where Should A Dividend Investor Begin?
The best accidental side effect of running a website and writing articles for Seeking Alpha is that it occasionally allows me to stumble into friends I haven’t to in a while—the kind of people that...
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