Buying a dollar of speculation for 50 cents, plus thoughts on insurance and commodities

Checking in on my personal holdings and Irregulars suggestions

More on this tomorrow as I get into more detail in the Friday File, but I thought I should let the Irregulars know that I made a few transactions in my personal account today. Even taken all together this does not amount to a major transaction — but it does away with or decreases a […]

Taking a quick look and updating my thoughts on (almost) every stock in the "Gumshoe Universe"

"I've waited my entire life for this moment" sez Extreme Value editor

You have permission to skip this ramble if time is short

Looking into a teaser for Extreme Value's "buying Berkshire Hathaway 40 years ago" stock

Takeaways from the start of the Value Investing Congress

Checking in on more of our Irregulars stocks, and one personal sell

Friday file thoughts on a handful of companies, plus a Marc LIchtenfeld cancer teaser

Just a quick note to update you that I bought a small tranche of MFC Industrial (MIL) shares today, following the recent drop and their latest earnings release (the shares are down about 20% since I featured them as the “Idea of the Month” in February). Business is a bit troubled right now, particularly with […]

I broke up today’s piece into several different articles because there have been quite a few things going on this week with companies I follow or am interested in, so this “Idea of the Month” piece profiling one of our watchlist stocks will not (I hope) be overly long. The other piece I shared today […]

A new way of organizing and reporting on our favorite stock ideas in 2013

After several years of touting (and sometimes teasing) microcap mining stocks for subscribers of Stansberry’s super-expensive Phase 1 newsletter, Matt Badiali is launching a new letter that focuses on these small stocks, picks that he says are too small and volatile for his inexpensive S&A Resource Report letter. This letter is called the S&A Junior […]