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Premier Returns...Hopefully

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Should anything ever happen to me, readers of this blog wouldn't miss a beat in terms of Stock Ideas. All you would have to do is follow Whopper Investments, who independently writes about many of...

The Power Of Productivity

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When a country's GDP stops growing or starts glowing more slowly, the focus is generally placed on macroeconomic policy and fiscal spending. But it's not blind GDP growth that leads to our wealth....

Analyzing And Investing In Community Banks

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When the stocks in your universe are no longer as undervalued as they used to be, you *could* lower your standards and keep investing. Alternatively, you could expand your universe. That's what I'm...

Dialed In To FTE

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It has become a lot harder to find hated names on the public exchanges. As the rising tide of the market has lifted many sectors, long-term value investors are sitting on growing cash positions,...

More Trannies For You

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Great news for investors! Another source of free conference call transcripts has emerged, over at Earnings Impact. They assure me that they "will always upload the transcripts much faster than...

Subscribers: Take Note

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My site's statistics tell me that several hundred of you still keep up with this site via Google Reader. Unfortunately, in less than a month, Google Reader is shutting down. If you still want access...

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Clash of the Cultures

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John Bogle created the first index fund, back in 1975. As the founder of Vanguard and its CEO over a long tenure, he made a career out of making it cheaper for investors to share in the wealth...

The Checklist Manifesto

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Yeah, it's a book about checklists. Sounds ridiculous, right? Well, to me as well. But it felt like half of my Twitter feed was recommending it, so I finally got around to reading it. I'm glad I...

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Cash Burning A Hole In Your Pocket? Jump In A LAKE

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It has been a disastrous year for Lakeland Industries (LAKE), and its stock price reflects this. While the rest of the market reaches for new highs, shares of Lakeland are getting bent over; shares...

A Universe From Nothing

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I recently had a chance to read A Universe From Nothing, a Charlie Munger book recommendation. It takes the layman through what scientists believe to be the history of the universe, and why they...

On Selling Microsoft

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A few years ago, I recommended Microsoft (MSFT) as a potential value investment. Since then, this cash cow has continued to generate enormous returns on its capital. But two unrelated developments...

Manhattan Bridge To Somewhere

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The oldest member of this site's Stock Ideas page is Manhattan Bridge Capital. In the last six months, however, this company has seen its shares rise some 65%! As a result, it becomes the latest...

The Charisma Myth

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Charisma is something non-founder CEOs are simply born with...or is it? Most people believe CEOs rise to the top of their fields because of some innate quality that makes people follow them. But...

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Cisco: Let Me See That LONG

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Cisco has a dominant market share in an industry where scale is advantage. Considering this, its market price a couple of years ago was laughable. But it only looks laughable in retrospect. When I...

IFON You Up With A Deal

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InfoSonics (IFON) was already a deep net-net when it reported results earlier this week. But after reporting an EPS loss of 5 cents, the shares were pulverized, causing the company to lose almost...