Another installment in my thrilling 30-part series on the wisdom of Warren Buffett, as seen through his annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders. Part 21 takes us 10 years back, to 1997......
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I have a history of not doing so well as an individual stock investor. Like many, I tend to let emotions overcome me. This year I took much of the money in my trading account and handed it over to......
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Holy Kamoly we've made it to part 20 in our 30-part series on the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett. In this installment, we look at Buffett's Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders covering...
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Marketwatch has joined the "Web 2.0" crowd in creating more features to help its readers get involved. Its new toy is MarketPerception, which allows you to vote on whether certain stocks are...
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Another in our thrilling series following the wisdom of Warren Buffet as delivered via his annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. In this, our 19th installment out of 30, we lok at the year...
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I'm fortunate enough this year to have enough extra cash on hand to put some more money toward retirement, which will also let me pare down my 2006 tax bill. But I'm having a hard time...
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Continuing on in our now 30-part series on Warren Buffett letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Berkshire just released the letter for 2006, increasing the series by one, but we're going to...
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Here we are on part 17 of the 29-part series tracing Warren Buffet's words of wisdom from his yearly letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Let's take a look at the year 1993, shall we?...
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Back in October I wrote about Motley Fool CAPS, a stock picking community that Motley Fool had just introduced. (Here are my awesome picks from back then---I'm still in the top 10%of players even...
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I really liked Finding the Next Starbucks by Michael Moe. I know that saying you "like" something isn't exactly descriptive or a great use of the language, but for me it's a rarity...
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Part 16 in our 29-part series picking apart the yearly Letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders for pearls of wisdom from Warren Buffett. The year: 1992. As usual, a pretty good year: Our per-share...
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Part 15 in our 29-part series (with the new year, soon to be 30-part series) on the Oracle of Omaha focuses on his Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders for the year 1991. Here's what Warren...
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Almost halfway home in our 29-part series examining all of Warren Buffett's letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. With this post, we're moving into the 1990s, yay. To be precise,...
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Another installment in our ongoing series on Warren Buffett, in which we investigate Buffett's yearly letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders for nuggets of wisdom. This installment:...
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Back on August 7, I began this 29-part series on the words of wisdom to be culled from Warren Buffett's letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. It's October 25th and this is just the 12th...
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new investing service Zecco, which will be offering free stock trades. I mentioned an article I had read that said Zecco's difficulty would come when its...
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It's been almost three weeks since we last visited Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters as part of our ongoing series. For shame! Today's Part 11 looks at Warren...
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I finally got around to checking out this new Motley Fool offering called CAPS. They're billing it as sort of a mashup of stock picking and the "wisdom of crowds" type of thing that...
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So I read in various places about this new investing startup Zecco that is going to offer free stock trades, and make its money from site advertising versus customer commissions. Then I got an e-mail...
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Can it really be that we've reached Part 10 in our 29-part series on the Oracle of Omaha? It can, so let's do it. Today we pull wisdom from Warren Buffet's letter to Berkshire Hathaway...
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As I neared the end of The Accidental Investment Banker, a very entertaining behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street's power brokers, I couldn't help but think, "So what?" Yes,...
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In part 9 of our 29-part series (only 20 to go!) on Warren Buffett's words of wisdom, we peruse Buffett's assessment of Berkshire Hathaway's 1985 performance. 1985 was a big year for...
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