Thursday, February 18, 2016
“You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” That quote, one of my favorites from Warren Buffett, reveals a key piece of investment wisdom: You can’t force a good investment into being; you need to have patience.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
My chair trembled, just for an instant. A moment later, it drifted to the left, then to the right.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Right this second, the world’s biggest technology companies are freaking out. You’d think that corporate titans like Google, Facebook, and Apple would be calm in the face of a storm.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Last Saturday night, my wife—well, future wife—and I invited friends over for a dinner party.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Last August, as the market was tanking, we introduced you to an unconventional investment idea. As we explained, it let you earn double-digit yields… regardless of what the market was doing.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
“$780?” I asked. “You’re kidding me, right?” I was in the underground garage next to our apartment, asking about rates for monthly parking.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
This breakthrough is turning out to be even bigger than we’d thought. In 2014, we started telling our readers about it: We predicted it would disrupt everything from entertainment to education.
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Right around this time last year, we issued our forecasts for 2015— We offered you our perspective on which sectors and investment themes would be important for the coming year. Today, we’ll review our predictions and see how they panned out...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Trying to pick a single start-up that will become “the next Microsoft” or “the next Google” is pretty risky. Even wildly successful venture capitalists strike out more than half the time.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
For more than a quarter of a century, General Mills (NYSE: GIS) has been a winning trade: If you’d invested $10,000 into the company in 1990 and reinvested the dividends, today you’d be sitting on $217,146. That’s roughly twice what the overall market returned.