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All bull markets are unique, yet market analysts can make several universally valid statements about the market.

How many of you have had a security that you've held too long, waiting for those unrealized profits to materialize once again. Will GE, for example, ever regain the $20 mark? $40?

How many of you have had a security that you've held too long, waiting for those unrealized profits to materialize once again. Will GE, for example, ever regain the $20 mark? $40?

Every fall, especially in the volatile markets we've been experiencing recently, I encourage investors to think about some year-end strategies that can make the final calendar quarter a

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