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  • Friday File: Buffett, Burry and Brookfield

    Some thoughts on Buffett's wisdom, Burry's buying, and Brookfield's debt.

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  • Friday File: Buffett goes East, Bassy Impresses, and what’s that “Fedcoin” fear about?

    Updates on some large cap positions... plus two buys in the Real Money Portfolio

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  • Buffett buying “Market’s Free Ride?”

    What's being touted by both Porter Stansberry and Motley Fool Stock Advisor this week?

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  • Friday File: Pandemic Darlings Continue to Fall on Hard Times… which are worth buying?

    Updates on Stitch Fix, Chewy, Roku and more... plus a big summary of the $100K Lock Box Portfolio

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  • Friday File: Real World Research, M&A, Beat and Raise Quarters, and Reader Questions

    A hodgepodge for you today, including one new buy as well as updates on RPRX, ROKU, SFIX, TDOC, OKTA, GAN, CCI, SPLK, FSLY and more...

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  • Dan Ferris teases “A Low-Risk Shot at 1,550% on the ‘Best Business in the World'”

    What's being teased in the latest ads for Extreme Value at Stansberry?

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  • “America’s #1 Retirement Stock” from Whitney Tilson and Empire Financial

    Five Stocks teased as the "Perfect Portfolio"

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  • “Retire on one $4 stock?” Profits Run teases this is “like buying Berkshire Hathaway back in 1967!”

    What's the "Buffett Blueprint" being touted by Premium Income Letter?

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  • Solving Curzio’s “One Bank to Hand Investors $60B” Tease

    I haven’t written about a Frank Curzio teaser for a while, so when a few readers asked about his new “$60 billion paycheck” pitch I thought I’d take a look for you… this came as an ad for his Curzio Research Advisory, which is Frank’s “entry level” newsletter (he’s offering it at $79/year currently), and […]

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  • Friday File: Stop Losses and Big Quarters

    I keep seeing more and more marijuana teaser ads, and yes, marijuana is an exciting sector right now with legalization in Canada and probably more incremental moves toward legalization of marijuana in the US this next election cycle… but they’re still companies that we have to analyze and understand if we’re to think of these […]

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  • “Stock Market Coupons” — what’s up with Rahemtulla’s “Stop Paying Full Price on Your Stocks” pitch…

    Looking into the discount stocks and "instant cash" picks recommended by Automatic Trading Millionaire

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  • Friday File: Royalties, Scams, Buffett, and Gold

    A hodgepodge of updates on the Real Money Portfolio and other stories of interest -- including thoughts on Alphabet, Berkshire, Boston Omaha, Cameco, Equinox, Franco-Nevada, Ligand, Momo, Okta, Omega Healthcare, Sandstorm and more...

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  • Friday File: High Five for Low Taxes, and some updates on gold and bitcoin

    Another new purchase in the Real Money Portfolio

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  • Friday File: MORE Insurance Blather, Valuation thoughts, and some buys and sells

    Including notes on Berkshire Hathaway, Markel, Fairfax, Axis, Yatra Online and Walt Disney

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  • Mizrahi’s “This ONE STOCK is the ‘Next Berkshire'” Pitch

    What's being teased by Insider Alert with their special report, "Round 2: How to Become the Next 'Berkshire' Millionaire?'"

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  • Friday File: Catching up with that “Motley Fool Conviction Buy”, plus thoughts on AIG and Berkshire

    Checking in on that "like buying Amazon" stock, plus some updates on insurance stocks in my portfolio

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  • “Warren Buffett’s Next Target” teased by Wealth Daily

    What's the next Kraft Heinz - 3G - Berkshire takeover touted by The Wealth Advisory?

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  • Vardy’s “Follow this Smart Money Master to Gains of Up to 200%” LNG Stock

    What is being pitched as the top pick of a billionaire contrarian? (Plus some other "Trillion Dollar Club" picks)

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  • Friday File: Inevitable Collapse and the Story of Progress

    Some big picture thoughts on "what has to happen"... plus a new mutual fund to consider, and some minor updates

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  • $7 a share: “Discover the Profit Power of This ‘Tesla Clone'”

    What's being pitched by Alpha Investor Letter?

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  • “Motley Fool Issues Third Buy Alert for this ‘Millionaire Maker’ Stock”

    What's Tom Gardner at the Motley Fool recommending for a third time now?

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  • Friday File — CRIUF, MPW, AAPL and more.

    This week we don’t have a new teaser solution for your Friday File pleasure, so I’ll stick with some updates on a few stocks I’ve been watching this week… and next week, we’ll get our “Idea of the Month” piece up for you. And we also have a new piece from Dr. KSS up today, […]

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  • Friday File — More Berkshire, and some Good Friday Musings about Bad Performers

    We’re just about shut down here at Stock Gumshoe HQ for the market holiday today, but I do have some updated thoughts and musings for you about a few of the companies I own and write about with some regularity: Leucadia (LUK), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), and Fosun (FOSUF). And I should also update you […]

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  • “Retire on one stock” says Charles Mizrahi — which one?

    Mizrahi says "This 'Next Berkshire Hathaway' Company Has Grown at a Rate of 21.1% Per Year — And it Could Help Make You a Fortune"

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  • Friday File: Value Investor Conference

    Checking in from Omaha

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  • What’s the “Ideal Retirement Booster” (IRB) from Oxford Club?

    Can 20 minutes really "add 27 years of cash to your retirement account?"

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  • Unraveled: “Warren Buffett’s Worst Nightmare” pitch from the Motley Fool

    Opening up an excerpt from an old Friday File, solving a Fool teaser about driverless cars that's still in heavy rotation

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  • “Warren Buffett’s WORST NIGHTMARE Is About to Come True”

    Sleuthifying a Fool pitch for the Friday File, plus some updates on companies I own and follow

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  • written by reader Market Acrophobia – The Fear of Falling

    The Blind Squirrel Diaries

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  • August Idea of the Month: Another One?

    Adding to a large sector bet for our latest Idea of the Month

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  • Adding a Smidge More Berk

    I haven’t bought shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) in about a year and a half — the last time I added to my Berkshire holdings was just before Buffett and the board publicly announced that they’d authorize buying back shares if they dipped below what they considered a fair price. At the time that was […]

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  • “Easy 519% Profits from Buffett’s Oil Monopoly”

    How to profit from railroads moving Bakken crude following "Warren Buffett's $34 Billion Presidential BRIBE"

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  • “Fiscal Cliff Winner” From the Yield Shark

    Sniffing out a pork barrel beneficiary from John Mauldin and Ed D'agostino

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  • Following Ackman & Tilson — Notes from the Value Investing Congress

    I’m afraid the mind is more willing than the body today, I seem to have picked up some sort of flu bug so I’ll be brief today and will share some more thoughts on the Value Investing Congress and the ideas we learned about in the weeks ahead. Which is probably for the best, since […]

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  • Small Addition Triggered

    Just a quick note that this morning a limit order that I’ve had sitting in my account for a while triggered, and as a result I boosted my holdings in Berkshire Hathaway by about 20% (yes, I’m a small investor so these are the B shares — BRK.B in most quote systems). The company is […]

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  • What is the “Locked-down Lithium Play?”

    If email volumes are any indication, investors are frantic about lithium as the next great growth “commodity” story — and a lot of my readers are really interested in learning more about the “locked-down lithium play” being teased by Alternative Energy Speculator. And hey, I like making money from electric cars as much as the […]

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  • Follow Buffett’s Lead: The Next Wal-Mart

    OK, so let me just warn you up front: The latest ad from Nancy Zambell for her new Buried Treasure under $10 newsletter has a lot of, well, hooey in it. But really, doesn’t that just make it more fun? Here’s how the hype begins: “Buffett has sunk $2 billion into the next Wal-Mart Here’s […]

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  • Red Hot Profits from Green China: Electric Vehicles

    This is a little quickie from Green Chip International, a newsletter that is, like so many others, apparently boasting of more big discounts in their subscription rate -- don't know if anyone ever actually paid the "official" $995 subscription rate, but now they're trying to get you to subscribe for $300. Still, that's quite a handful of greenbacks for a newsletter that hasn't had much opportunity to prove itself yet -- so let's see if we can figure out some of what they're touting for us today. The big spiel is all about what they're calling ... "China's $555 Billion 'Environmental Liability Insurance' ..."

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  • “Ten Minute Work Week: The Greatest Business in America” Ferris Extreme Value

    Now this one sounds exciting, eh? I don’t want to say that the mighty, mighty Gumshoe is a lazy man, but I must admit that the idea of a work week that lasts only ten minutes has some appeal … what the heck are they talking about? It’ll take me longer than ten minutes, but […]

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  • “Warren Buffett’s Up and Coming Retailer” Street Authority

    StreetAuthority is calling a recent buy of Warren Buffett’s “The little stock that could make you rich” — it’s apparently a retailer that Buffett “recently” bought, to the tune of 14 million shares (I’m afraid I can’t sing along at that volume, but I do always like to know what Buffett’s buying). The wise and […]

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  • Inside Value: “Warren Buffet and the Subprime Slime”

    This ad came in from Philip Durell’s Inside Value newsletter from the Motley Fool, which they’re currently offering for $149. This is the “deep value” newsletter from the Fool, so it probably shouldn’t be any surprise that it’s one of the worst Fool performers recently — it’s beating the S&P by just a point or […]

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  • “Inside Value: 60 Cents on the Dollar”

    This teaser came in recently for the Motley Fool Inside Value newsletter — the main company they’re teasing as the “next Berkshire Hathaway” hasn’t changed over the past couple years that I’ve been seeing this ad (it’s Markel, as I’ve written about before, and I do own shares of that one), but the secondary teaser […]

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  • “Pasadena Secret Investment Society”

    I’ve gotten a lot of email about Porter Stansberry’s latest ad campaign, the one that teases the existence of “secret societies” that you can participate in and significantly outperform the market. Of course, the mystique sells the newsletters … but are these “secret societies” for real? Let’s take a look. This “Pasadena Secret Society” … […]

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  • “Buffett’s Secret Loser”

    This one is actually a teaser for a free service — but the Gumshoe doesn’t discriminate. It’s from Investment U, and it’s teasing us with the name of Warren Buffett’s secret portfolio holding, the one that he bought low and averaged up over the years, and recently piled on more shares of after the shares […]

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  • “The Next Berkshire: The One Forever Stock That Could Make You Rich”

    It should come as no surprise that after only a couple weeks of posting my teaser sleuthing on this site, I’m already on my second “next Berkshire Hathaway” — as I’ve written on my other blog several times, and been guilty of myself, the search for the next Warren Buffett is one of the most […]

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  • “I have found Warren Buffett’s successor”

    I got an email solicitation from Louis Navellier the other day, one of dozens we all get every day from various investment advisors, and to those who signed up for a trial of his Emerging Growth investment advisory service he promised something special: The name of the company that might be the next Berkshire Hathaway. […]

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  • Hi Travis; I would be curious to know if Warren Buffett has ever expressed his opinion of crypto....

  • That's the elephant in the room, for sure, and the primary reason Warren Buffett sold the stock a year ago, shortly afte...

  • Warren Buffett sold all of his TSM. He said it is a great company with great leadership but a troubling location....

  • That's a reasonably safe assumption, in any given year -- the outperformance at Berkshire will never be as fantastic as ...

  • Who is Luke Longo and what makes him qualified to make these predictions?Sounds like a huckster - not sure why anyon...

  • "Follow the Money"How Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Make a Killing Off the Childhood Obesity Epidemichttps://ch...

  • It does at least pay a dividend still... though it's not Louisiana, it's further west (his Louisiana reference was to so...

  • I used to like to try out different search engines for no reason other then to see why I might want to switch from Googl...

  • It's certainly more attractively valued than it was a year or two ago, though it's trading at a premium price relative t...

  • If BRK stock fails to out perform vis-a-vis the SP500 after the Warren Buffett era is over do you think the two CEO’s ...

  • True enough, though the shortage is political so and could disappear overnight. Lots of challenges in finding a balance...

  • Your observation is interesting not least because I can actually see where you are coming from but it's worth noting tha...

  • It's not really about swinging for the fences in any given position... it's about staying in the game, to stick with you...

  • BOMN is a company started by two guys, one a grandson of Warren Buffett, and modelled after Berkshire Hathaway. They ar...

  • I like the notion of "buy and hold", it is certainly easier in some ways than constantly monitoring a stock however the...

  • Travis, those of us who have been with you for a few years, have wondered why you never raised your rates before now. I...

  • yes, they are more pushy. i owe a lot to MF, paid the down payment for our 1st house with gains from one of their recomm...

  • 1987, October, I had just WALKED OUT OF A SMALL BUSINESS WHICH PROVIDED ALL MY INCOME!Then MONDAY CAME!BLACK MON...

  • Wow, no one is up to debating Lemonade? Classic pick that sounds sexy and could be the Future of Insurance? The same ...

  • Thanks Travis. On your last point just curious to what Warren buffett did buy in the 80's? did he concentrate on the ...

  • And we just learned that Berkshire Hathaway bought at least half a billion dollars worth of shares in one of the largest...

  • I agee with previous comment by “coolsoupy”, I’m just too Old for this one! Additionally A lot of things have to ...

  • FYI, Buffett confirmed today that the Kroger purchase was not one of his personal decisions (so it must have been Combs ...

  • $FYI - Warren Buffett Is Making a Big Bet on Solar Power"The so-called Gemini project, which will generate power...

  • I heard that Warren Buffett loaded up on this, after he had loaded up on CRXPF, SPOXF, MIDLF and other newsletter OTC, p...

  • Thank's Travis...I have (or had) a Series 7, 63, and 66; passed the CFA Level 1 (but I was 60 and didn't think it was wo...

  • If I were Teeka and were as smart and prescient as he thinks he is, I wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to sell a serv...

  • A lot of these Options players are similar to "Gamblers" in a casino. You find quality companies that will make you pro...

  • Think the Warren Buffett of France...

  • If it gets at all exciting, as we saw when the WSJ made the Warren Buffett connection las fall, it will be too expensive...

  • Warren Buffett never had a method. I just saw a documentary on his life....

  • I think the key man risk lessens when Buffett dies or retires — my feeling is that the risk he’ll do something big a...

  • Well done! I guess that depends on how much risk you can tolerate, and what it would mean for your future financial wel...

  • In my view, Amazon lives in a universe inhabited by a few other 21st century stocks. These are companies whose underlyin...

  • He had a well-publicized bet that the S&P 500 would beat any chosen hedge fund (or fund of funds) for ten years, a bet h...

  • Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio agree on what to do when the stock market tanks https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/warren-buf...

  • Retracement of 18% of BOMN yesterday could be attributed to some expected sell-off subsequent to the previous day’s su...

  • FYI, interesting piece from CNBC that pulls some of Buffett's historical commentary on "investing during inflation" in t...

  • The number of investment bankers banging on the door in Omaha urging Berkshire's board to spin off assets or break up th...

  • I once read that this was done with monkeys throwing the darts. The monkeys did better than the human traders. You nee...

  • $BYD...as far as reluctance to buy into Chinese companies, it is somewhat noteworthy to me that two of my "heroes", War...

  • Yes, the somewhat ancient BVD, now, via Fruit of the Loom, owncd by...wouldn't you know it...the very same above-mention...

  • $BYDDF - Author: Lucky 13 Comment: Got an Energy & Capital teaser email today from Chris DeHaemer (www.energyandc...

  • Agree with you Travis. Warren Buffett a non crypto currency believer compares the invention of the check (which was hug...

  • 11 Powerful Investing Quotes From The World’s Best Investors January 19, 2018 4:45 pm by Sure DividendSee also th...

  • I think if you read about Warren Buffett and what he did in his early years was selling puts when a stock had done a dou...

  • Mama said there'll be days like this.Tom Tucker, is it maybe a blessing in disguise? Warren Buffett says, "Price is ...

  • "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." --Warren Buffett$ARTH (lon...

  • Thank you for your Warren Buffett education. Need to catch up with you Travis later this fall. Thank you for all you hav...

  • Since this was last discussed numerous features have been introduced. One, available to lifetime members. is The Billion...

  • This is a longer (16 pg) monthly, with multiple writers, which I enjoy; provides a broader education, from macro to inte...

  • Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just tak...

  • There has been some talk between threads recently on portfolio diversification, and the overall success one can expect i...

  • "You build wealth by concenration - you perserve it with diversification."“My idea of a group decision is lookin...

  • Are there financial advisers that smart? "The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing." - Warren Buffett...

  • Welcome Cuga. I can give you my opinions as to what shares will do, but those are based on what I believe to be rational...

  • $HALO np SC13/A filed - http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001159036/b9b57c1d-1412-4a32-af3d-162ded9a4b68.pdf...

  • The vast majority is going to the Gates Foundation on Buffett's death, and some of it has already been transferred. Tha...

  • Thought you might like to know: Warren Buffett in new HBO documentary: ‘I’m getting down to salvage value’ http...

  • None that I know of. I'm still. I do think that, as it happened to work out, the time our column appeared on it was when...

  • Joseph, I believe Warren Buffett once said, "There is no harm in putting all your eggs in one basket, but if you do, you...

  • This $ARTH raises a paradox. Alan was right in selling. Others, me included, are probably right in holding. Cleveland...

  • With stocks like ARTH I like to be a total SLOTH and ignore the noise.People here tend to overthink minutiae over a...

  • I too have read Jim Rickard's books and having studied the issues being discussed in the comments on the response articl...

  • Warren Buffett to Donald Trump: 'Have you no sense of decency?' https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/760311688533045248 via @W...

  • Strongly disagree.I think both strategies can work (and both can go sour as well).But if you pick the right stoc...

  • Paul Tudor Jones is more of a short-term momentum trader. That rule works for his style.Value investors like Warren...

  • Arch1 - In the same vein as Martha Stewart is a thought I have had since the Keystone pipeline issues became a political...

  • When Dr KSS speaks, I listen. Doc briefly mentioned Kiadis Pharma/KDS.AS few weeks ago. Tried to get that link but to no...

  • $RLYP (long) Don, you need to make a decision based on what feels right for you. If you follow the lead of successful ...

  • Warren Buffett : "The stock market has a very efficient way of transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient". I...

  • Buy some gold, buy some silver. On this not-so-super Super Tuesday, I see two frontrunners who would both continue Ameri...

  • I honestly thank you all the guys here who have shared their beautiful mind. Everyone reading here shall find the forum ...

  • Points well taken, thanks for the input. But if I may elaborate, I was very much interested to invest in those companies...

  • Glad to see the good Doctor back in good health. His comments above prompted me to take year-end "stock." I don't agr...

  • Warren Buffett should consider buying out Reeds. Of course, I'm sure it's a bit too "small" for him. However, his affec...

  • 50 Years of Wisdom Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter Ever: http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Wa...

  • Alexander Green is currently pushing this "SECRET FORMULA " called The 7 Minute Habit. Does any subscriber have any inf...

  • Anyone know what the below is is ? America in 2025: Bill Gates’ Scary Prediction "I don't understand why some peopl...

  • Warren Buffett specifically said he has no particular interest in silver right now at the annual meeting a few weeks ago...

  • I forgot to mention one of my favorite books, and Warren Buffett reminded us of it on Saturday (he mentions the book all...

  • “Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”― Warren Buffett...

  • What matters most to people at the very end? I spent a few years both working for and volunteering in hospice programs. ...

  • Do not know if this is right place to post but this looks like a interesting play for those that do not do strictly Biot...

  • Last thing I heard about warren buffett was his raving and ranting about how great a value he believes companies that bu...

  • for the record I am an irregular, meaning that I pay for my access to the gumshoe. Some people wonder what IRR means abo...

  • Ironically, my largest % loss for the day in one of my accounts is in my widows/orphans utility company! (Which I've ...

  • Just because the FDA has to respond to the company's request within 30 days does not mean they have to respond EFFECTIVE...

  • Or there's Warren Buffett, who's quoted as saying "Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sens...

  • Having owned BRK.B for some time, the track record is the real story here, (pun intended for train buffs). Frankly, if ...

  • well if anyone wants an alternative to Embraer, ERJ, which may not be the Foolish Pick, we have a Canadian competitor ca...

  • Thanks Frank, I know you're right. I can never sit on any cash in my account. How Warren Buffett can sit tight for mon...

  • Larry (10): Your closing comment reminds me of top gold critic/disbeliever Warren Buffett who is in the "barbarous relic...

  • Randy, you might also benefit from reading a few of the prose portions of the annual reports of Berkshire Hathaway which...

  • Doc....what do you refer to by RSI? We wouldn't want to end up fanning the flames like the women did in their battle of...

  • It is not worth the money for the amount of info your getting. Theirs not always a connection between quality and price....

  • Starting to see the "overcapacity" chatter more about these tank cars now, there have been some downgrades, here's one f...

  • Interesting. I missed where you speak about any dividend or payment to investors. Is this a Warren Buffett model, where...

  • I think the idea is to buy when everyone else is fleeing the scene, leaving super-cheap bargains for the brave to snap u...

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