Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Buffett's Record

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Cool interactive chart of Buffett's record going back to the 1950's: It shows if a person put $10k in the Buffett partnership in ...
Monday, June 29, 2009

On Bear Markets

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From an  article on investing when markets are in turmoil: In his 1961 letter to partners, a 31-year-old investor in Omaha named Warren B...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Coca-Cola in 1930

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Cool blog that each day posts a summary of the Wall Street Journal from the corresponding day in 1930. Here is one headline from this pas...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Max and the Chauffeur

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The following story was told by Charlie in a 2003 speech at the University of California . By the way there's a famous story about Max ...

Tiger Woods and Bill Gates

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Very different skills, similar advice. Tiger Woods: Best advice (from his Dad)? Keep it simple. "My dad's advice to me was to...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Stocks Selling Below What Buffett Paid

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This Wall Street Journal article mentions that JNJ, COP, KFT, USB have all been bought by Buffett in the past few years but are selling bel...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Graham and Fisher

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"As long as the company behind the common stock maintains the characteristics of an unusually successful enterprise, never sell it....
Monday, June 22, 2009

Benjamin Graham

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Here's an  article by Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal from this past May. The article points out that during the crash in 197...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Enrico Fermi's Rule

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Fermi believed the ability to effectively estimate was an important skill for physicists. A good way to solve physics, and other complex pr...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Michael Porter on Business and Investing

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Check out this article from last Friday. In it, Michael Porter provides another view on the current state of business and investing and t...