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Applying Newton's Fourth Law

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Quotes of 2009

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A collection of quotes said or written at some point during this calendar year. "A light-weight vehicle with a small carbon footprint...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Behavioral Bias

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Here is a good post summarizing some of the many forms of behavioral bias. The biases covered include: Overconfidence Hindsight Bias L...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Highly Probables: Berkshire Shareholder Letter Highlights

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Warren Buffett wrote the following in the 1996 Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa)  shareholder letter : Of course, Charlie and I can identify only ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Daily Journal

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Charlie Munger has been Chairman of The Daily Journal ( DJCO ) since 1977 and his legal firm controls 41% of the company. It is thinly trad...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

"Stock-Renters"

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"...we have this huge amount of investors in the market or, rent-a-stock, stock-renters in the market compared to stock owners." -...

Stocks to Watch

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Here is an update of stocks I like* for my own portfolio at the right price. Those under the dashed line are businesses I like but prevail...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Airlines: A Tough Business

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Airlines have had a fairly brutal half century or so. It has just been a difficult business to be in for a whole bunch of reasons. Here ar...
Friday, December 11, 2009

AOL Goes Public...Again

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A little less than 10 years ago AOL's market value was, unbelievably, over $ 160 billion. Once combined with Time Warner the market valu...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

$ 2 Million -----> $ 2 Trillion

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The following are excerpts from Charlie Munger's Turning $ 2 Million into $ 2 Trillion . It is 1884 in Atlanta. You are brought, along...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Ackman on McDonald's

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One of the great global franchise businesses is McDonald's ( MCD ). Yesterday, they reported some disappointing same store sales resul...
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