Censoring Online Comments: The Big Debate Among Website Publishers And...
Among people who own and run websites, one of the constant debates is this: How should you handle the censoring of online comments? A lot of times, the debate never properly gets off the ground because...
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Should You Buy The American Funds Growth Fund Of America?
One of my goals this year is to build out the “mutual funds” section of this site, as my pieces on the Vanguard Wellington Fund is one of the most-searched topics here, and I’ve had a few conversations...
View ArticleHow Dividend Growth Covers Up Mistakes
Over the past ten years: Colgate-Palmolive has grown its dividend by 12.5% annually. Pepsi has grown its dividend by 13.5% annually. Exxon has grown its dividend by 8.0% annually. McCormick has grown...
View ArticleThe Original Dow Jones and Forever Investing
Happy New Year! Let’s kick things off right by uncovering a good look at what happened to some of the oldest members of the Dow Jones Index, way back in the 1890s. The components that were part of the...
View ArticleWarren Buffett On Diversification
Reader “sumflows” uploaded this video from Warren Buffett’s speech at Florida that discussed Buffett’s advice on diversification, and the best part about it is that Buffett gives advice based on the...
View ArticleThe Moment Warren Buffett Became Famous
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget about the moments that “make” someone famous. My favorite high school teacher was always quick to remind me that Robert Frost’s iconic poetry like “Fire And Ice”,...
View ArticleColgate Palmolive Dividends Make You Rich Without Even Realizing It
To kick off the new year, let’s take a step into the “Way Back Machine.” We won’t get carried away with ourselves and go too far back (long New Year’s Eve night and all that)—only ten years to the...
View ArticleBenjamin Franklin’s Letter To An Ambitious Tradesman
While on my Benjamin Franklin kick, I came across this old letter that the founding father, inventor, philosopher, and investor had written to a young, ambitious tradesman. Thought you might enjoy. To...
View ArticleShould You Borrow Student Loan Money To Invest?
Back when I was soliciting questions from you before Thanksgiving, one of the questions I received from a reader concerned the wisdom of taking out student loans to invest. That’s a question that I...
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How To Stop Credit Card Companies From Sending You Mail Or Calling You
I’m currently in the process of decluttering everything (as you can see from this screenshot, I currently have 12,446 unread e-mail messages). A lot of it is spam, and some of it is reader questions...
View ArticleThe Four Investing Secrets Of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor
Although I strongly encourage any of you to read Benjamin Graham’s classic “The Intelligent Investor” if you have not done so already, I do know that “life happens” and it’s a lot easier to find...
View ArticleDonald Yacktman Talks Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola
Donald Yacktman, one of my favorite investors once you get past the list of usual suspects that everyone knows, conducted an interview with Consuelo Mack a month or two ago that explained the rationale...
View ArticleDividend Stock Investing, Death Of A Salesman, And An Hour-Glass America
“Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it’s a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway...
View ArticlePeter Lynch: Why Buy-And-Hold Investing Beats Market Timing
Check out this gem from page 23 of Peter Lynch’s classic “One Up On Wall Street” that explains the wisdom of always staying fully invested: “If you put $100,000 in stocks on July 1, 1994, and stayed...
View ArticleDave Thomas: The Psychological Mastermind At Wendy’s
Wendy’s is not a company that gets a whole lot of attention simply because it has played fourth fiddle to Dairy Queen, Hardee’s, Burger King, and the star of the show, McDonald’s. With McDonalds...
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This Wal-Mart In St. Louis Is Moderately Corrupt
I would guess that, especially compared to most guys in their 20s, I tend to have a more favorable opinion of Wal-Mart than most of the population in general. I consider Sam Walton’s life to be one of...
View ArticleWhat If Warren Buffett Held Onto The American Express Stock He Bought In 1963?
In 1963, Warren Buffett bought a block of American Express stock after the “Salad Oil Scandal” sent the shares down substantially—in a nutshell, one of American Express’s subsidiaries had used millions...
View ArticlePeter Lynch And John Templeton Deserve Investor’s Attention
The audio and visual quality of this video is a bit punishing to work through, but the common sense wisdom that you’ll pick up from these two titans will be worth, I’d think. In the coming two to three...
View ArticleEven Bruce Springsteen Had To Borrow Money For Short-Term Liquidity
Even Bruce Springsteen, long after raking in the millions from Born To Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, and Born in the U.S.A., still needed to borrow money short-term to make ends meet:...
View ArticlePhilip Morris International Is The Best Long-Term Tobacco Investment
If you are contemplating making an investment in big tobacco, and have not yet done so, you need to read this. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/836390.shtml The money quote: “China had 182 million...
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