Only Fools Believe In Buy And Hold, The World Is Ending, Etc.
When I discuss the concept of holding stocks for 25+ years and letting the growing cash dividends surround you like Scrooge McDuck when he does his daily money bath swim, I often hear from people that...
View ArticleShould You Hire A Financial Advisor?
If you have twenty minutes to set aside, I highly recommend you read this. It very well might be the best article I have ever read on The Motley Fool website. Molly McCluskey, John Reeves, and IIan...
View ArticleDon’t Let Life Pass You By As You Get Rich
Take a moment and read this story I found on the Bogleheads forum. It is absolutely excellent. It is from user “sperry8”: My quick story… Grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood spoiled by a...
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How To Get Started Investing With Nothing
When I solicited for questions right before Thanksgiving, the most common question that I received was something to the effect of: How do you get started investing if you have a low income and don’t...
View ArticleHow Dividend Investors Can Protect Their Principal
One of the interesting things about owning a high-quality asset such as an obviously excellent business is that it only takes a few years of dividends and general profit growth to protect the principal...
View ArticleThe Four Keys To Get Rich With Failure
One of the first moments when it hit me that I would make a ton of investing mistakes over the course of my lifetime is when I read admissions from Warren Buffett about the investing mistakes that he...
View ArticleThe Fun Thing About Blue-Chip Dividend Stocks
You know what makes all of this finance writing about blue chips fun for me? The continuity of almost everything. When I started writing for Seeking Alpha in 2011, I was saying the same things about...
View ArticleJack Puelicher’s 1982 Letter To Shareholders
In 1982, Jack Puelicher, the CEO of Marshall & Ilsley, wrote an annual report which read, in entirety, as follows: “Your company had a very good year in 1982. Some of it was due to luck; some of it...
View ArticleNever Sell A Blue-Chip Stock That Drowns You In Dividends
When I receive e-mails from people who have come across this blog and want to discuss portfolio strategy, I’ve found that a good chunk of readers have taken to a dividend growth strategy even if they...
View ArticleBuy Your Kids Johnson & Johnson Stock For Christmas
On page 175 of Janet Lowe’s book, Damn Right! Behind The Scenes With Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger, Ms. Lowe quotes Charlie as saying: “People underrate the importance of a few simple...
View ArticleWhy Do Some CEOs Only Work For A Dollar Per Year?
I was recently studying the various Kinder Morgan energy companies as potential investments, and I got sidetracked into studying the life of Richard Kinder himself. He’s a pretty interesting dude—he...
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Kinder Morgan Investors Get Rich In Plain Sight
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 ArticleHow To Tell If You Are A Good Long-Term Investor In Under Thirty Seconds
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 ArticleA Strong Overreaction To McDonalds’ Sales Declines in Japan
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 ArticleThe End To Warren Buffett’s Charitable Program 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 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,...
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