The Best Dividend Investing Tip
One of the statistics that I often think about, and have mentioned with some frequency on this site, is the fact that the average equity investor compounded his wealth at 3.49% annually from 1990...
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What Walt Disney Understood About Comparative Advantage
One of the interesting things to analyze from an aerial view is the difference between how strategies are taught in the classroom and how they are executed in reality by those with real world...
View ArticleWhy You Do Not Want To Win On The Game Show “The Price Is Right”
Benjamin Graham’s famous question that all investors should ask themselves before making any purchase decision (On what terms, and at what price?) even applies to the game show “The Price Is Right” as...
View ArticleTwo Things You Could Have Done In 1989 To Become A Johnson & Johnson...
If you wanted to accumulate $1,000,000 worth of Johnson & Johnson stock over the past twenty-four years, there are two straightforward ways that you could have accomplished it: some variation of...
View ArticleThe Best Investors Spend Their Lives Asking Why, Why, Why
I just finished reading this thread on The Bogleheads Forum (a popular place where index investors hang out and philosophize about personal finance):...
View ArticleWhat Are Quality Dividend Stocks, And Why Should You Own Them?
If you are familiar with some of my writings, you have probably encountered my use of the phrase “high-quality dividend stock” to describe the kind of company worth buying and tucking away in your...
View ArticleFour Good Finance Articles To Read Today
Check out this article by Dividend Mantra: http://www.dividendmantra.com/2013/08/why-i-hold-100-of-my-equity-investments.html It’s titled “Why I Hold 100% Of My Investments In A Taxable Account.” This,...
View ArticleThe Butterfly Effect And Dividend Investing
Bill McClellan is a long-time writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I’ve been reading his editorial work since I was twelve years old. He is a great storyteller with a knack for capturing the big...
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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 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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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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