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Keep It Simple, Says Yale’s Top Investor

What should an individual investor do? Don’t try anything fancy. Stick to a simple diversified portfolio, keep your costs down and rebalance periodically to keep your asset allocations in line with...

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Tags: david swensen, disney world
Financial history, anyone?

Origins of Money and of BankingThe history of credit and banking goes back much further than the history of coins. Nevertheless the story of the origins of money goes back even further still.Warfare...

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Tags: financial history, inflation, origin of money and banking
Is Your "Cash" in Danger?

Auction-rate securities, which thousands of companies report as a cash equivalent on balance sheets, may be imperiled. The market for auction-rate securities seems to be coming to a screeching halt....

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Tags: cash equivalent, accounting
The Coming Ad Revolution

While the big news in the online world focuses on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, a more profound revolution is taking place on the online social networks: The discussion about privacy is changing as...

Started in Mispricing • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: social networks, ad revolution
Graham’s investing philosophy

THE recent developments over the subprime issues and the big volatility in regional markets have caused a lot of uneasiness to retail investors. According to Benjamin Graham (1894-1976), investors...

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Tags: value investing, benjamin graham
New Era Dawns for Rail Building

America is back to working on the railroads.For decades, stretches of track west of this town were so rough that trains couldn't run faster than 25 miles an hour. Lanie Keith, a locomotive engineer...

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Tags: railroad
Been to a Dairy Queen Lately?

Interesting read on Dairy Queen and Berkshire Hathaway.Article 1Article 2Article 3

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Tags: berkshire hathaway, dairy queen
Down to the Last Drop of Profit Growth

STOCKS ARE ALLEGEDLY CHEAP NOW, at 17 times 2007 earnings. And they are cheap by historical standards. Only seven years ago, they were at price/earnings ratios double today’s; they are even cheaper...

Started in Mispricing • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: stock market, corporate profits
This Credit Crisis Has a Long Way to Run

Interview with Jeremy Grantham, Chief Investment Strategist, GMOONE OF THE GRANDEST OF THINKERS AND MOST ELOQUENT of oracles, Jeremy Grantham has long been the voice of reason in an industry prone to...

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Tags: credit crisis, jeremy grantham
Look who's buying now

Fortune asked 13 money managers about the current downturn, and what they're buying (or not buying) now.The List: John Neff, Leon Cooperman, Christopher Ailman, Michael Steinhardt, Whitney Tilson,...

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Tags: money managers
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