The Nexus 7 Commercial With The Dying Dog Should Be Tweaked
“Think how association, pure association, works. Take the Coca-Cola Company (we’re the biggest shareholder). They want to be associated with every wonderful image: heroics in the Olympics, wonderful...
View ArticleWarren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s Best Investment
Out of all the acquisitions that Buffett and Munger made together, the acquisition of See’s Candies in January of 1972 might be the most important, not necessarily because it was the greatest source of...
View ArticleH&R Block’s “Billion Back” Commercial In A Football Stadium Is Brilliant...
Now that I’ve given you an example (here) of what I consider to be a bad commercial for mental model associative purposes, I want to shine a light on the positive and discuss with you a commercial I...
View ArticleForgiving General Electric’s Dividend Cut And Lofty Executive Compensation
The funny thing about GE’s dividend cut during the financial crisis is that it actually freed up capital to allow General Electric to recover faster and stronger than it would have if the $0.30...
View ArticleThe End Game of Dividend Investing: The Zero Hour Work Week
Even though I spend a lot of my time thinking about and writing about dividend-focused strategies, I’m definitely not opposed to strategies that involve focusing on profit growth in general without...
View ArticleColgate-Palmolive: The Tenbagger Peter Lynch Did Not Predict
In 1989, Peter Lynch referred to Colgate-Palmolive as a stalwart stock, and quipped: “How much can you expect to squeeze out of Colgate-Palmolive? You aren’t going to become a millionaire off it. ....
View ArticleInvesting Advice From Benjamin Graham
One of the underpinnings of Benjamin Graham’s financial advice to investors is that, at a certain price, ninety-nine out of one hundred companies in existence become attractive at a certain price. This...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Seth Klarman And Warren Buffett
When asked to compare himself to Warren Buffett in an interview with Charlie Rose, Klarman said: “Warren evolved through three stages. He went from buying cigar-butts and getting the last few puffs...
View ArticleDividend Investing: Getting Rich During Retirement
One of the bogeymen that we have to address when structuring our financial lives is the fact that every dollar that we create for ourselves will be worth around $0.97 next year, around $0.94 the year...
View ArticleThe Earliest Video Footage of Warren Buffett
Even back then, Warren Buffett had it. I think I finally dug up the earliest known video footage of Warren Buffett, and it looks like it was an interview with an Omaha TV station that never actually...
View ArticleHow To Turn Part Of Your Life Into A Dividend Machine
There is something to be said about arranging a small portion of your overall financial life so that it truly runs on autopilot and builds wealth organically without any additional effort on your...
View Article1987 Magellan Fund Reminder: Your Advantage Over The Professional Investors
During the third week of October in 1987 when stock prices declined by over 30% in two days, Peter Lynch (the legendary mutual fund manager that generated 29% annual returns over a thirteen-year...
View ArticleRetirement Myths And Other Terrible Ways To Think About Retirement Planning
A common theme for people that write about finance (whether it be frugality, investing, or early retirement) is that when they peek out from their own writing platforms and enter the world of Yahoo,...
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The Richest 100 People Own Over Half The World
According to a report recently released by charity cum research outlet “Oxfam”, both the 85 richest people in the world and the bottom 3.5 billion have something in common: an aggregate net worth of...
View ArticleRichard Sherman’s Post-Game Interview Carries Professional, Economic...
Many of you saw Richard Sherman’s post-game interview with Erin Andrews on Sunday night, shortly after battering a pass intended for the 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree that ended up saving the...
View ArticleIBM Stock Buybacks Are Not Proof The Company Is Dying
One of my friends from Seeking Alpha, Robert Allan Schwartz, recently pointed out to me this article in the Wall Street Journal that was sharply critical of IBM as a long-term investment, with the...
View ArticleWisdom From The Harvard Business Class of 1963
Bill Agee, from the Harvard Business School Class of ’63, gets money. Hell, he gets life: It may seem too easy for someone who has achieved relative financial success and a significant degree of...
View ArticleWhy The Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund Is A Good Investment
Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund (VTWSX). This fund, split up into over 5,300 stocks, is one of the best all-weather beast funds that exists. The fund’s imperative is to basically say, “Hey, we...
View ArticleShould You Dollar Cost Average With Coca-Cola Stock?
One of the perks of dollar-cost averaging is that it comes reasonably close to ensuring that your investment will generate returns that correspond to the actual growth of the company that you choose to...
View ArticleHow Did Warren Buffett Build His Fortune?
According to the Google search engines for this site, one of the most queried subject topics is something to the effect of “How did Warren Buffett get rich?” That’s an unsurprising curiosity,...
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