Stock Analysis
Amazon Is Not a Threat to This Industry
Amazon's entrance into the US healthcare market caused stocks in the healthcare sector to drop, but upon further investigation it became evident that these concerns were overblown.
Options, Hurricanes and Hedging
We always look at our investment process and ask, “What can we do better for our options?” How can we increase returns and lower risk?
The Invisible Hand: Balancing Supply and Demand in a Capitalist Economy
How the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing has mutated the DNA of the global economy, and how well-meaning economists running central banks don't know the correct price of money or the consequences of their actions.
What Will The Stock Market Do Next?
I want to let you in on a small Wall Street secret: No one knows what the stock market will do next.
Antifragility and Value Investing – Part 2
In addition to our traditional quality analysis, which falls into three buckets (business, balance sheet, and management), we also look at companies through the slightly different lens of fragility.
Antifragility and Value Investing – Part 1
What do you do when a company you own makes a large acquisition?
Cryptocurrencies Are Just Beanie Babies
This coin/blockchain mania is not much different than the Beanie Baby mania of the late 90s. Beanie Babies were released in a limited quantity (the key word), and thus the price kept going up.
Uninvestable Tesla
Tesla is an uninvestable stock for me, not just because of its high valuation but also because it fails our basic quality test, which I borrowed from Warren Buffett.
These Clues Tell You If A Company Is Making A Dumb Acquisition
As a shareholder, you do well to place more emphasis on risk than on reward. Corporate management usually does the opposite, and this is why most large acquisitions fail.
The Double Trap For Tesla Investors Predicting The Future
Before Tesla, we equated electric cars to golf carts. Tesla has shattered that image, showing that the electric car can be an equal and in many ways superior product to the ubiquitous ICE car.
Bitcoin – Millennials Fake Gold
I haven’t written anything about Bitcoin because I find myself in an uncomfortable place in agreeing with the mainstream media: It’s a bubble. Bitcoin started out as what I’d call “millennial gold” – the young generation looked at it as their gold substitute.
Apple – Not Saying Goodbye
I’ve written more articles about Apple than any other company we’ve ever owned. If I were to lie on Dr. ...
Now Apple must show what’s next after iPhone X
The iPhone X is likely to be a phenomenal success for Apple. But its success will not be driven by ...
Here’s How Your Investments Can Survive a World of Trouble
Writing about the future of investing in the current global economic climate is an easy way to get depressed. After ...
This Rocky Stock Market Requires An All-Terrain Portfolio
The Importance of “I Don’t Know” The vast majority of U.S. stock gains in this long-running bull market are due ...
Random Thoughts on Apple
I wrote more articles about Apple than almost any other company over the last five years. For a long time ...
World Leaders Are Taking Investors Down A Dangerous Economic Path
Conditions for investors around the world are getting worse. Let’s start with Europe, the world’s second-largest economy. The European Union ...
New iPhones Are Not Enough
It is hard to find a bigger Apple stock cheerleader than me. I’ve been writing Apple stock love poems for years. For a ...
The World Is Becoming Desperate About Deflation
The Great Recession may be over, but eight years later we can still see the deep scars and unhealed wounds ...
SoftBank’s Big Plan For A Smarter Internet Is Brilliant
Masayoshi Son doesn’t do anything small nor does he do things in a simple way. A few months ago SoftBank ...
Don’t Blame Amazon for The Ice Age in Retail
In my latest 2 minutes and 29 seconds of fame, I was on Fox Business discussing why Amazon should not ...
