Investing/Trading
Time to Look for Tax Free Investments
The fact is that a large number of Americans do not have health insurance. The fact is that fixing this will increase the budget deficit unless taxes are raised, for the middle class as well as the “rich” with incomes of over $250,000 a year. The economy is slowly recovering and the stimulus money helped. […]
Investment in Dot Coms
eBay’s stock has been going up, half again as much this year. With memories of the dot com collapse, is too much investment in online companies a bad thing? eBay makes profits online. How do you decide which dot com is for real, making profits online, and which dot com is just a replica of […]
Harley Davidson and the Aging of a Niche Market
Harley Davidson is a venerable motorcycle maker headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Harley lived on its name and not its quality for a lot of years as foreign (Asian) competitors made better bikes and a greater variety of bikes. 💡 Download All 50 Prompts in Under a Minute When Harley Davidson upgraded its product with better […]
Investing Clichés
When picking and reevaluating investments it is important to be dealing in sound investment advice versus clichés. Thirty or more years ago the cliché was that if you know how to manage you can manage any and everything. That cliché led the world’s leading copier company, Xerox, to get into the insurance business where they […]
Missing an Investment Opportunity – Once Bitten Twice Shy
“Once bitten, twice, shy,” the old saying goes. This adage is borne out by the fact that Berkshire Hathaway has made some investment coups worth billions of dollars since last year and its stock price is still down substantially from its high a couple of years ago. The point is that after the market meltdown […]
Investing for the Best Return on Investment
Where can you get the best return on investment in the stock market? We are not talking about short term gains followed by abrupt losses but long term growth. Maybe, low priced, low grade stocks bundled up in index funds are the way to go. Thirty and more years ago stock market research revealed that, […]
Random Investment Thoughts About Endowment Funds, Pension Funds, And Bad Investment Choices
In the wake of the market meltdown we see that some very smart people lost money, a lot of it. The news is that several Ivy League endowments and the big California Public Employees Pension fund are down substantially. How could such smart people do so badly? Greed? And, by the way, Madoff got 150 […]
Very Long Term Investment
This is a food for thought article. 🔍 Discover the Prompt That Found My Last Breakout Trade Is it possible to find long term investments that will remain stable investments and secure investments over generations? If so, what will these investments look like? What kind of return will they give and will they be subject […]
Inflation Hedges for the Economic Expansion
The recession is showing strong signs of mending but folks are still out of work and we are not out of the woods yet. However, as the world economies recover it is time, again, to think of inflation hedges. There is going to be pent up demand and there is going to be capital chasing […]
Value Orientation and Riding Winners
The successful long term investor develops a long term strategy over time. A successful long term strategy can be a combination of a value orientation and riding winners. Both of these approaches help you avoid being sucked into market “tips” that only lose money and selling as soon as a stock makes a small gain […]