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1. Thou Shalt Not (not ever if possible) Invade Principal....

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

After too many years without a presence on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, "Brainwashing" is back in the big leagues with Hard Cover, Paperback, and ebook versions

Recently my firm was hiring a junior analyst – someone who’d work directly with me. In the past we’d post an advertisement and get hundreds of resumes and we’d have to dig through

Like many professional investors, I love companies that pay dividends. Dividends bring tangible and intangible benefits: Over the last hundred years, half of total stock returns came from

I've been investing in individual equities for nearly 50 years (40 professionally), and I've never owned one that didn't pay a dividend.

So what do you or your investment manager have in common with your favorite neighborhood bartender, other than the probability that you spend more time with the latter during market

The first time I read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People was in 1990. I was living in Russia; the Cold War had just ended. Capitalist American books suddenly became

Our firm bought Apple shares for clients’ portfolios in 2013, and we are used to being a contrarian voice when it comes to the stock (read here and here) — we loved it when it was hated.

Other the past 40 years, there have been several major market corrections, and a significant number of (smaller) "opportunity" providers. After a ten year run up in stocks, we finally have a mild

I am 14 months into working on my new book, The Intellectual Investor, which is far from being finished. I have written fifty thousand words but have yet to find answers I am looking for,

I simply don’t trust the fundamentals of the global economy right now. The system is built on quicksand.