Friday, May 3, 2013

Apple's Debt Offering: Investor Enthusiasm for Bonds Continues

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Earlier this week, Apple ( AAPL ) sold the largest corporate non-financial bond deal in history. Apple sold, in total, $ 17 billion in ne...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Investor Overconfidence

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Roughly a year ago, according to this MarketWatch  article , Fidelity released a poll indicating that 91% of their "active investors...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Worldwide Daily Beverage Consumption

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Back in the year 2000, the worldwide daily beverage consumption totaled roughly 48 billion servings. At that time, Coca-Cola's ( KO ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Modern Portfolio Theory, Efficient Markets, and the Flat Earth Revisited

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"...Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard for...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Berkshire's Manufacturing, Service and Retailing Operations

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Berkshire Hathaway's ( BRKa ) Manufacturing, Service and Retailing Operations covers, as Warren Buffett points out , everything from ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Coca-Cola's 1st Quarter 2013 Results

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From Coca-Cola's ( KO ) latest earnings release : The Coca-Cola Company reported worldwide volume growth of 4% for the first quarter, ...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Buffett on Risk and Reward

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One investor that Warren Buffett highlights in  The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville ,  is Rick Guerin. Buffett describes Guerin as...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Berkshire's Regulated, Capital-Intensive Businesses

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Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKa ) has two large operations, BNSF and MidAmerican, that, due to their capital-intensiveness, are quite different fr...