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Judge Smails: Ty what did you shoot today? Ty: Oh Judge, I don’t keep score. Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers? Ty: By height. From the 1980 film Caddyshack Are you one of the countless people that have a difficult time understanding what the so-called wizards of smart in main-stream-media […]
Rather than do what I usually do during my Fraud Files columns, where as I grab a stack of stories from around the country and report on various instances of malfeasance. Instead, I decided that this time I am going to do more of what one might call a think piece. Every day, I print […]
A reoccurring occurrence on the television show the Simpsons is, Homer finding ways to figuratively torture his strait-laced neighbor Ned Flanders. For example: Homer will help himself to any of Ned’s tools from his garage without asking permission and subsequently never return them. Ned being the pious church-going forgiving guy bottles up his frustration and […]
The chattering classes are having a grand-old-time discussing the who, what, when and where of the looming stock market and economic collapse. I really detest how they love to break things down in terms of animals, Bull! Bear! What if I told you it doesn’t matter? The biggest mistake that investors make (this includes a […]
We love being paid to own! It is great to see that global dividends reached a first-quarter record of $263.3 billion. That is a 7.8% rise all in the face of concerns of slowing economic growth. The Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index said that U.S. dividends totaled a record $122.5 billion during the period, up […]
Thirteen years ago, in what is an ongoing effort to explain and simplify concepts in investing, I wrote a column titled Rules of the Road. In it, I list four simple rules that everyone needs to adhere to an order to become successful investors. They are as follows… #1. Compounding is the royal road to […]