Why Kinder Morgan Stock Made Investors Rich
For those of you who have been reading this site for a while (God Bless you!), you know that it is no secret that the cash payouts of high-quality firms contribute a large, hidden part of total stock...
View ArticleWhat If You Bought $300 Worth of Exxon Mobil Every Month For Twenty Years...
Since Warren Buffett announced his purchase of Exxon Mobil stock on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway, the price of the stock has gone up substantially in a two-month period for a company worth over $400...
View ArticlePhil Robertson, Advertisers, And Disney Shareholders
If you have been following the news for the past day or so, you have likely seen the lead story and many debates about the comments that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame made to GQ Magazine that...
View ArticleBest Long Term Stocks: The Thirty Second Guide
One of the seeming national pastimes among investors over the past decade has been to lament the performance of Microsoft stock. After all, from 2003 to 2013, the company has only delivered annual...
View ArticleWhy McDonalds’ Japan Subsidiary Is Declining In Sales
I was watching CNBC early this evening (perhaps that was my first mistake), and the headline blaring on the bottom was about McDonalds’ operations in Japan. McDonalds is currently planning to shutter...
View ArticleWarren Buffett’s Charity Philosophy at Berkshire Hathaway
Not that long ago, I was watching the Missouri Tigers play against another team with the exact same mascot, the Auburn Tigers. Unfortunately, my Missouri team lost, but I’d like to talk about something...
View ArticleShould You Buy The Fidelity Magellan Mutual Fund?
One of the interesting things about mutual funds is that they tend to retain the halo effect of the mutual fund superstars even after those fund superstars are no longer around. One such case is the...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Stock, The Great Depression, and J.D. Salinger’s Estate
For those of you interested in what I’ve been reading this weekend: 1. You can click here to read an article about a guy that bought some Palmer Oil stock and argued that it was worth 1.8 million...
View ArticleWhat Are The Tax Differences Between The Three Types of Kinder Morgan?
After my recent article on the lucrative performance of Kinder Morgan over the past two decades, I received several questions from readers that wanted to know the taxation differences between KMP, KMR,...
View ArticleLivefyre, Website Speed, Old Comments, And Other Website Updates
A couple weeks ago, I improved the layout of the site from something horrible to something that could now charitably be described as “passable.” I’ve performed some other routine maintenance work as...
View ArticleAAA-Rated Companies: Where’d They Go?
In the early 1990s, American investors could choose from over sixty publicly available investments in companies whose debt issuances were rated as AAA, the highest possible credit rating which denotes...
View ArticleThe Justine Sacco Firing Reignites My Passion For Dividend Stocks
The PR coordinator for IAC, Justine Sacco, recently got fired for a tweet in which she belittled AIDS and further relied upon a racial stereotype to make her joke. As seems to be the case when someone...
View ArticleStocks, Bonds, and Real Estate Asset Allocation
In addition to the cash dividends that the Board of Directors chooses to send out to the owners of the business every three months, there are two other things that will be responsible for driving your...
View ArticleWal-Mart Stock: Why You Shouldn’t Try To “Sell High”
Someone recently asked me this: With the stock market seeming to break new records on a regular basis, why isn’t it wise to sell a stock that has become slightly overvalued? There are two reasons why...
View ArticleCoca-Cola: Stock Market Patience With Dividend Stocks
When Coca-Cola announced a two-for-one stock split a year ago, the company disclosed this information: “The Coca-Cola Company’s common stock began trading in 1919. Since its original listing, the stock...
View ArticleWhy Benjamin Franklin Spent His Life Chasing Money
With all of this talk about firing on the site lately, I wanted to share with you a more optimistic spin by sharing with you the story of why Benjamin Franklin wanted to get rich. Rather than seeing...
View ArticleAnonymous Christmas Tipping
With Christmas just hours away, I wanted to bring to your attention five cases of people who truly seem to “get it” and understand the arc of wealth-building involves a transition point from financial...
View ArticleJesus, John Templeton, and Confucius On Charitable Giving
Although John Templeton, the famous mutual fund pioneer, managed to create a $6+ billion fortune over the course of his lifetime, he never had too many periods in his adult life where he refused to...
View ArticleFollowing Ben Graham
In Security Analysis, Benjamin Graham would distinguish between companies that had recently fallen in price, speaking in terms of “imaginary value disappearing” and “real value becoming unrecognized.”...
View ArticleSouthwest Airlines: Warren Buffett’s Rumored Buyout
Recently, there have been rumors that Warren Buffett is considering the outright purchase of Southwest Airlines after Buffett indicated during a CNBC interview that he would not rule out the prospect...
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