Strong Moats Protect your Investments. That’s why Warren Buffett Likes Them…
Last week I wrote an article about the 7 most important questions to ask when investing. Question 3 was, “Does the company have a strong moat?” Now it’s all well and good to answer that question based on an opinion, but wouldn’t it be grand if we could find an answer based on hard facts and data? With that in mind, I went digging through some of my favorite books to see what I could come...
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Warren Buffett is fond of saying, “you want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.” And when it comes to investing experience, no other investor has more or does it better than the Oracle of Omaha. He’s amassed a fortune of over $50 Billion using strategies he learned from his mentors and from techniques he created...
Read MoreRolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi Looks at the Sins of Goldman Sachs…
THE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO KNOW about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent, financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly...
Read MoreThe Most Treasured Investing Books Revealed…
Nary a stomach did not flutter as 36 Billion dollars of top-notch, blue-chip market cap bling descended from its former glory, like the drop in the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island, to plumb the depths of despair not seen in a decade, first falling to 15 Billion and then punching through to 14 after the briefest of pauses. Its exploding dividend yield did nothing to assuage the panic as...
Read MoreHow to Invest During an Economic Crisis…
If you’ve read anything I’ve written, such as this blog, my book or articles, you’ll know I’m not a big fan of trying to predict things. I’d rather react intelligently to whatever has already happened rather than trying to divine what will happen next. The main reason is because most predictions don’t pan out consistently. However, there are some things that are not too difficult to...
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