Archive for September, 2008
Congressional representatives should read more blogs
I am so sick of the “bailout,” “wall street vs. main street,” “corporate fat cats lining their wallets” rhetoric that keeps spewing from the mouths of politicians and journalists right now. Today’s debacle of a vote in the House of Representatives just goes to show you how ineffecient, uninformed, and irrational our elected officials are. [...]
read more »Warren Buffett is Loading Up
Just last year, Warren Buffett was complaining about a lack of sensible investment opportunities. Berkshire Hathaway was sitting on a pile of cash and returns for investors were slowing. But, he made a promise to commit more capital in 2008 and it just so happens that there are some real tasty morsels coming his way [...]
read more »Federal Reserve Bank or System?
Last week will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous weeks in financial history. History was made and precedents were set and no where will the effects last longer than in the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve System was set up in 1913 in order to create a method for which [...]
read more »What is leverage?
After today’s highly publicized collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ongoing worries about different firms’ capitalization and leverage levels, there are probably many people out there wondering what exactly it all means.
Leverage is actually a rather simple concept. It’s the ability to use a relatively small amount of capital to control a large amount of [...]
A challenge for readers
I don’t have the time to do the research right now, but this article on multiple compression in high flying tech stocks got me wondering. At what point during a downturn does broadline multiple compression take hold? Our economy has been teetering for almost a year now and Apple and Google and many other high [...]
read more »You can do better than me
In my last post, I announced the passing of the Curious Investments Equity Income Strategy. But, what I want to make sure is that readers of this blog don’t get the wrong idea and begin to think that investing in dividend stocks is an unproductive route to go down. As with all investing strategies, it [...]
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