Walt Disney Co. Buys Marvel Entertainment Inc.
By now you know that Disney (DIS) has agreed to purchase Marvel (MVL) for about $4 billion in cash and stock. Good deal for Disney no doubt. Marvel had languished for decades simply selling comic books until it started capitalizing on its characters through movies and licensing deals. I think the best years were ahead for MVL. It had, what Warren Buffett likes to call, a strong economic moat and...
Read MoreHow to Make a Fortune in the Coming Years…
Back on June 30th, I wrote about inflation, interest rates, taxes and gold in a piece titled “How to Invest During an Economic Crisis.” If you haven’t read it, go do that now. I’ll wait. Back? Okay, so it’s 2 months later and has anything changed my mind about what I said? Nope. In fact recent events have just reinforced my views. I’m even more convinced that it’s only a...
Read MoreJoel Greenblatt Launches New Money Management Investing Firm based on his Magic Formula System…
A little while ago I posted an article about some of the best books ever written on investing. One of those books was called, “The Little Book that Beats the Market” by Joel Greenblatt (he’s the Managing Partner of the Gotham Capital hedge fund, a Professor on the adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School and a member of the investment boards of the U of Pennsylvania and...
Read MoreHow to Start and Grow a 6 or 7 Figure Investment Portfolio…
In today’s post, I’m going to share with you the investing system that works for me and many of the people I know. It’s not a new system. Variations of it have been used for 50+ years and it has been directly responsible for many billions of dollars in investment returns. I’ve just adapted it to take advantage of the plethora of information available on the Internet today...
Read MoreWarren Buffett Speaks out on the Growing U.S. Debt…
Interesting opinion piece by Warren Buffett right here. According to Buffett, Congress might find it hard to slow the prodigious spending, when the time comes, as they worry about being re-elected. According to economist John Maynard Keynes, “By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…....
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