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Someone At T Rowe Price Really Likes Danaher Stock
I was recently screening the top ten holdings of every mutual fund that T Rowe Price offers to look for some investment ideas worth considering. When I got to the company’s more traditional funds aimed...
View ArticleInvesting in Commercial Real Estate Investment Trusts Now
For most of the 1960-2010 period, commercial tenants could receive a strong benefit by committing themselves to long-term leases. Unless you were dealing with the obvious coastal markets where...
View ArticleHow To Become An Oil Baron With $35,000
Imagine if someone had a private bank account that was used solely for the purpose of funding automatic investments that required only an hour or two’s worth of effort per year. What I have in mind is...
View ArticleWhy You Should Follow Pete At Mr. Money Mustache
Every now and then, I come across a blog that is fresh, original, witty, and worth following religiously. A recent website that caught my eye is www.mrmoneymustache.com run by a guy named Pete in...
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Waste Management Stock: 2023 Prices Right Now
From 2007 through 2012, Waste Management did not grow its profits per share. It earned $2.07 per share in 2007, and $2.08 in 2012. What gives? The answer is that the fees associated associated with...
View ArticleIf You Find Tobacco Stocks Unethical, You Should Buy Tobacco Stocks
Something worth thinking about is the nature of second and third order effects and how the consequences of certain actions can be much different than what we actually intend. Take something like...
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Why Are Timeshare Investments So Disastrous?
I was reviewing the late 1980s and 1990s craze of “investing” in timeshares, a type of investment that still exists to this day, in order to determine why these purported investments proved to be such...
View ArticleExplaining The 90% REIT Payout Requirement
You will recall that, in order to obtain the tax benefits that come with REIT classification, the entity must pay out 90% of its taxable income as dividends. This terminology is a bit of a red herring...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen Released “Born To Run” 38 Years Ago Today
On August 25th, 1975, Bruce Springsteen released the album that forever changed his life, Born To Run. It is an eight track masterpiece that finally proved The Boss worthy of the lavish praise the New...
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Beer, Banks, and Airplanes
For me, 2018 was a somewhat difficult year to find new investments because so many stocks were trading at prices that were not deals. With some publicly traded stocks seeing some real declines in...
View ArticleWhy You Should Follow James Altucher At The Altucher Confidential
There’s about fifteen or so writers in the personal finance realm that I make a point of following regularly. I’ve highlighted some of them—Mr. Money Mustache, Jason Fieber at Dividend Mantra, and Greg...
View ArticleBob Dylan, Columbia Records, And The Abuse Of The Scarcity Principle
Yes, you can ruin a sound economic principle by taking it too far. One of the basic underpinnings of Economics 101 is this: the creation/illusion of scarcity is good for the provider because it...
View ArticleIf You Are Investing A Few Hundred Dollars Per Month, Computershare Should Be...
www.computershare.com Check it out. Scroll through the terms of some of the plans available. If you looking to put less than $250 or so into a given stock each month, I’d stick with the companies that...
View ArticleThe Key to Getting Rich
I have long interested in discerning the contradictions between how the wealthy are portrayed in the popular culture and the mass media at large compared to their actual behaviors. This discrepancy has...
View ArticleYou Should Never Fear A Breakup Of The Too-Big-To-Fail Banks
I have always found it odd that people that a breakup of the big banks like Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo would somehow screw over shareholders. As you probably...
View ArticleThe Hard Part About Investing
When I contemplate a potential investment, one of the hard decisions to make is defining the point at which a management team’s executive compensation becomes so excessive that it ought to deter...
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Financing Here, Financing There, Financing Everywhere
With the rise of online price comparison shopping, many sellers have come to appreciate that consumers will purchase a product or service at the lowest possible price offered, with little tolerance to...
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Western Union Stock: Why I Won’t Touch It
As part of my long-term study into the various operations of financial institutions, I have also come across ubiquitous payment processor Western Union. In what has now become seven years of writing...
View ArticleMartin Luther King’s Dream Applied To Stock Ownership
Back when I was an undergraduate at Washington & Lee University, I made the argument to one of my history professors that low-fee DRIP plans provided an example of where Marxist principles actually...
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The Additional Eight Hours of Life Per Week
Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst published a working paper in 2005 titled “Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades” that found that the average man and woman in the United...
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