Warren Buffett has said many times, “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” But what is a wonderful company? Isn't wonder in the eye of the beholder? [...]
Tepper says stocks could rise another 20%. Icahn says stocks are due for a big fall. Buffett says stocks are neither cheap nor expensive, their in the zone of reasonableness. And Schwartz says… Who cares! Let’s focus on the facts. [...]
Normally, I would suggest that you run away from a cannibal but a stock cannibal is one you should embrace. In a recent interview, Charlie Munger suggested that one key to investment success is to look at cannibals — businesses [...]
One of the great things about travel is the opportunity to see how other countries and cultures work. On my annual sailing trip in the Caribbean last month I left the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by boat, [...]
Paul Samuelson won the Nobel Prize in Economics and also wrote the introductory textbook that got me hooked on the subject. Here’s what he had to say about the stock market: “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or [...]
Now that the S&P 500 is back to a five year high, investors may be wondering if stocks are still cheap. It has been a nice run since March 2009 and maybe it’s time to cash in the chips. Not [...]
"In 53 years we never had a discussion about macro affairs when buying or selling stocks.There is always going to be bad news", Warren Buffett. If the greatest investor of all-time is telling you to ignore the headlines, you should [...]
Followers of Barry Schwartz’s articles will recall that value investors await opportunities in the market by swinging at “fat pitches.” A fat pitch is intended to provide the investor with a margin of safety by protecting him against downside risk. [...]
Buy and hold is a terrible strategy, if you aren't paying attention to a company's valuation or business strategy. Warren Buffett once said that his preferred holding period for a stock is forever. But I think he left out the [...]
On June 4, 1992, my 40th birthday, I resigned from my job in the venture capital industry and launched Baskin Financial. With no clients and no track record, it was a pretty scary thing to do. Now, twenty years later, [...]
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