Be The Investor You Wish Your Grandparents Could Have Been
How many of you wish that your grandpa bought $1,000 worth of General Electric stock during the Great Depression that would be generating $400,000+ in dividends today, allowing you to buy homes...
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Some Blue-Chip Stocks Dominated During The 1966-1981 Period
Lately, I have been studying periods in stock market history typically known for “poor performance” to see if it were possible to craft an intelligent dividend strategy during that time period. In...
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A Book You Should Read: The Richest Man In Babylon
In the United States of America, there are over 500,000 people that work in the diet and fitness industry. The funny thing about that is the fact that almost all of the advice concerning health could...
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Broke Athletes, Ty Cobb, And The Coca-Cola Stock
Every now and then, ESPN, Fox Sports, or a major media outlet will provide statistics on the general state of personal finance for professional athletes years after their playing days are over....
View ArticleBetween Conoco and Exxon, What Should Dividend Investors Prefer?
I own shares of both Conoco and Exxon stock—I expect to be a great income holding over the next ten to fifteen years. But what I do not expect is for the company to give smooth, linear annual increases...
View ArticleWhy You Should Follow Greg McFarlane At Control Your Cash
It can be difficult to make a name for yourself in the sphere of personal finance writing. In a way, writing about investing and general money-related philosophies is a lot like writing about weight...
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When Is The Best Time To Buy Coca-Cola Stock? Anytime You Got The Money
After I plugged my recent article about Ty Cobb and the Coca-Cola stock on Seeking Alpha, I received a link from regular SA contributor Charles Margolis highlighting the town of Quincy, Florida, which...
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You Can Sell Stocks In Only Five Minutes
You know what makes stock investing so dangerous? The fact that we can instantaneously combust a long-term strategy merely if we are having a bad day. The amount of damage we can wreck on our...
View ArticleWhy I Am Dumber Than Anyone Reading This Blog
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Picture a recent financial mistake you’ve made. I guarantee you that I did something dumber in the past week. At the start of this month, I was getting my hair cut at a...
View ArticleSeth Klarman’s Margin Of Safety: The Most Legendary Book In Personal Finance
If you regularly follow Berkshire Hathaway message boards, you may be aware that Seth Klarman has repeatedly been the dark horse candidate to replace Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway when the time...
View ArticleWhy I Stopped Reading Get Rich Slowly After J.D. Roth Left
When I first started reading personal finance articles, a website called “Get Rich Slowly” that was founded by J.D. Roth became one of the personal finance sites that I would read on a daily basis....
View ArticleThe Peter Lynch Crayon Test Could Save Your Investment Portfolio
Peter Lynch, the gentleman that achieved 29% annual returns while running Fidelity’s Magellan Fund from 1977 through 1990, is famous for saying that you should never invest in any idea that you can’t...
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An Investing Lesson From The Greek Philosopher Epicurus
I’m a sucker for ancient Greek and Roman philosophers that made observations about life two thousand years ago that still hold up today. One of my favorite is the observation that the Greek philosopher...
View ArticleA Fantastic Quote To Start Your Day
Check out this great quote from Charles Swindoll: “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the...
View ArticleWisdom From Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Steve Jobs
If you have an hour or two to kill today or sometime this weekend, these three Youtube clips should give you the chance to spend your free time learning from the best. (1) The first video is a Warren...
View ArticleJealousy, Envy, and Greed Are Great Tools For Destroying Wealth
Over the past year, Best Buy has returned 59.24%. Citigroup has returned 78.92%. Netflix has returned 332%. That’s real money. If you put $100,000 into Netflix this time last year, you’d have $332,000...
View ArticleHow To Master The Art of Investing
For those of you familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s research in the book Outliers, you may have heard that it takes 10,000 hours of practice/effort/research to demonstrate extreme proficiency in an...
View ArticleWhat If You Buy Coca-Cola, Exxon-Mobil, and Johnson & Johnson Every Year?
For a thought experiment, I wanted to look at the results of what would happen if an investor went through life by adopting this strategy: during the first trading week of January each year, he bought...
View ArticleThree Quotes From Seth Klarman On The Financial Crisis
I was just reading through Seth Klarman’s 2010 letter to his investors at The Baupost Group and I wanted to share with you three quotes that caught my attention enough to reflect upon: (1)Things that...
View ArticleWhy You Do Not Need A Professional Money Manager
A couple weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article that explained why the gap between professional and amateur-ish players is narrowing: the proliferation of information about every...
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