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Scientists in Limbo as US Supreme Court Allows Modified Travel Ban - Justices overturn lower court rulings on policy targeting people from six majority-Muslim countries -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Hurricane Capital

#WeeklyInvestorReader | wk. 25 - Note to readers: #WeeklyInvestorReader contains a few of the articles I read during the week. Visit my Twitter @HurriCap for any other articles that may no...
2 hours ago
Validea's Guru Investor Blog

Keys to Investing Success and Solid Picks - In a recent Forbes article, Validea CEO John Reese shared a list of core investing concepts outlined in an essay for the CFA institute by Vanguard founde...
3 hours ago
Classic Value Investors

Special Product Sale - It has been a while since you heard from me. As a result of the bear market in the precious metals, my life had to change. It is amazing how performance in...
3 hours ago
Abnormal Returns

Monday links: activist vulnerability - Extras: Some items from the cutting room floor of Tim Ferriss’ Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons,...
3 hours ago
Crossing Wall Street

Checking in on the 2/10 Spread - I like to take an occasional look at the spread between the two- and ten-year Treasuries. Over the last 35 years, negative 2/10 spreads have […]
4 hours ago
The Big Picture

Investors, Still Their Own Worst Enemy - Interesting DALBAR study covering 2016 inclusive): Source: Index Fund Advisors The post Investors, Still Their Own Worst Enemy appeared first on The ...
4 hours ago
csinvesting

No Price Discovery Then No Markets; A Readers’ Question - Has the meteoric rise of passive investing generated the “greatest bubble ever”? The better we understand the baked-in biases of algorithmic investing, the...
4 hours ago
Investing – 24/7 Wall St.

STORE Capital Becomes Warren Buffett’s Next Big Investment You Never Heard Of - STORE Capital is not exactly a household name. Its lack of public visibility may change now that Berkshire Hathaway has taken a big shareholder stake in th...
6 hours ago
TraderFeed

Becoming an Evidence-Based Trader - The recent article I wrote for Forbes is perhaps the most important one I've written. It is about a trend that is sweeping the trading world. Yes, we ta...
9 hours ago
The Value Investing Blog of Old School Value

Old School Curated Links and News (June 26th Edition) - Announcing a New Live Case Study – “Invest1000” A common question I get from visitors or member is whether I […] This post was first published at old sch...
11 hours ago
Brain Pickings

You Are Not the Target: Laura Huxley on Course-Correcting the Paths of Love and Not-Love - "In all its manifestations and however it is produced, not-love tends to beget not-love. The energy of love is needed to reconvert not-love into love."
14 hours ago
CFA Institute Enterprising Investor

Lucy Kellaway on Office Life, Creativity, and Culture - Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway writes about office life, pushing back against some deep-rooted habits and misconceptions among workers and job app...
16 hours ago
AdventuresinCapitalism

Mall Tour 2017 - For the past few years, most retailers have struggled. Of course, it’s easy to blame Amazon.com, but it is only one of many causes. At the same time, for...
21 hours ago
Reminiscences of a Stockblogger

TeraGo Networks: Inexpensive with Potential Upside from a Hidden Asset - The Straightpath Analog A few years ago I owned a company named Straightpath Communications. I didn’t buy the stock directly; Straightpath was a spin-off ...
23 hours ago
A Wealth of Common Sense

Playing All The Hands You’re Dealt - Fargo is in the conversation for the best show on TV right now. I just finished up with the third season which, like the first two seasons, had a great com...
1 day ago
The Irrelevant Investor

These Are the Goods - Articles Bubbles have less to do with rising valuations and more to do with shrinking time horizons among people playing a different game than you are. By ...
1 day ago
Nautilus

To a Cigarette Maker, Your Life Is Worth About $10,000 - Facts So Romantic - *Since there is one death for every million cigarettes sold (or smoked), a tobacco manufacturer will make about $10,000 for every death caused by their p...
1 day ago
Investing Caffeine

Sports, Stocks, & the Magic Quadrants - Picking stocks is a tricky game and so is sports betting. With the NFL and NCAA football seasons only a few months away, we can analyze the professional sp...
2 days ago
25iq

A Dozen Lessons I Learned from Bill Gates Sr. - Bill Gates Sr. is one of three mentors I have had that were actually appointed by a group to help me develop as a person. I have had other mentors that I r...
2 days ago
Long Term Value Blog

Updates on TPCA and GYRO - A quick update on a couple of positions that are in the news. Carl Icahn’s IEP and Tropicana Entertainment (TPCA) are offering to purchase up to 5.58 milli...
2 days ago
Collaborative Fund

The Courage of Speaking Up - Where do we start? It’s hard to fathom some of the behavior we’ve heard about recently — from “locker room talk,” to Uber’s culture, to Bill Cosby’s tria...
2 days ago
The Reformed Broker

This Week on TRB - These were the most read posts on the site this week, in case you missed it: ...
2 days ago
NoNameStocks

Activism and a Possible Sale of QDLC - A concerned shareholder group has started a proxy fight at QDLC by calling a special meeting on July 11 to elect a new board. Their stated intention is in...
3 days ago
Vintage Value Investing

Are Dividend Stocks Right for You? (Plus the Best Dividend Stocks to Buy Right Now) - Many investors think that dividend stocks are only for stodgy portfolios or retirees. Whether you are a newbie or are on the brink of retiring, you get q...
3 days ago
Canadian Diversified Investor

Buying good assets at a good price – aim for 6% plus inflation returns – tax efficiently - What is investing? At its core, investing is allocating money to things that make money in terms of appreciation or income or… both. A liability is someth...
3 days ago
17 Mile | Event-Driven, Value-Oriented Investment Diary

BRK/HCG - In a rather embarrassing refutation of a prominent short seller’s longstanding short thesis (i.e. that HCG is a donut), BRK took a nearly 40 percent stake ...
3 days ago
Barel Karsan

Shantaram - Shantaram is a terrific novel based on the author's true story as an Australian prison escapee who works his way through the slums and criminal underworld ...
3 days ago
Daily Speculations

A Failing of Modern Medicine, from Bo Keely - One failing of modern medicine is that tests, which control future diagnoses and treatments across the board, are generally conducted on a small sampling f...
3 days ago
Altucher Confidential

Give Yourself Permission To do THIS (and “things” I miss)… - When I threw out all of my belongings and started living in AirBnBs (I don’t own or rent), people say, “Ohh! That must be so freeing!”. I don’t know. I k...
4 days ago
Bull, Bear and Value

Anne Scheiber, the Secret Millionaire - I first heard of Anne Scheiber from a magazine article about her in 1995, shortly after she passed away aged 101. Anne Scheiber was the first example I ha...
4 days ago
Value Investing Journey

Preliminary Analysis Training Video for Client - Preliminary Analysis Training Video for Client In this video, I made a preliminary analysis training video for a Value Investing Coaching Program client....
4 days ago
MicroCapClub

Concentrating on a Few Companies is a Great Way to Learn Investing - The financial world preaches diversification because it’s safe and comfortable, but often times to learn and excel you need to be uncomfortable. The poin...
4 days ago
Paste - Recently Added

Summer Gas Prices Fall, But Is That Really a Good Thing? -
4 days ago
Musings on Markets

Uber's bad week: Doomsday Scenario or Business Reset? - Uber just cannot seem to help itself, finding a way to get in the news, and often in ways that leave its image in tatters. You could see this pattern in fu...
5 days ago
Quartz - Medium

Not all data are equal — especially in Africa - Reporting with data is supposed to be less messy than dealing with humans. Each spreadsheet column is an set of facts. We don’t have to trust someone’s o...
5 days ago
CitronResearch.com - Andrew Left, Executive Editor

FDA FAERS Database Posts Huge Rise in Acthar Deaths and Adverse Events - Mallinckrodt in Full Damage Control Mode Citron Explains the Company’s Admission on Acthar’s Adverse Events: Time to Call Your Lawyer ADVERSE EVEN...
5 days ago
Susan Weiner's Blog on Investment Writing

Word repetition—good or bad? - “Can I repeat this word throughout my report, or is it better to mix things up?” That’s a question I hear sometimes. Many people think that repetition is...
5 days ago
Ivanhoff Capital

The Hard Truth About Investing - Most people (passive and active investors) don’t get average market returns. The market averages, the S & P 500s of the world, have actually achieved a lot...
5 days ago
value and opportunity

HP Enterprise (HPE) – Spinning-off its way to happiness ? - DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH !!!!! Management summary: HPE, the enterprise arm of the old HP looks attractive on ...
6 days ago
Of Dollars and Data

Bitcoin and the Power of Belief - Why Cryptocurrencies are No Different From Most Other Risky AssetsPhoto: Pixabay In the past few weeks, a few things have happened that have led me to do ...
6 days ago
Alpha Vulture

Sapec announces plan to go private at €60/share - Yesterday at the end of the evening the story broke that the family controlling Sapec want to take the company private at €60/share after the payment of th...
6 days ago
Sharpe Returns

Asset Allocation Part 1: The Basics - Source: Randy Glasbergen, www.glasbergen.com As investors, we want to reap the power of compound interest over the long-run. That is how we build real weal...
6 days ago
Glenn Chan's Random Notes on Investing

How to track changes in a webpage - There is a free website called Change Detection that can send you email alerts whenever a webpage changes. I use it to keep track of: Hedge fund letters, ...
1 week ago
Ockham's Notebook

Backgammon and Life Philosophy - Backgammon: the cruelest game provides a guide to some key principles of backgammon, and contains analysis of several games between top players. It also ...
1 week ago
GreenWood Investors

The Battle For Whole Foods Isn’t Over -
1 week ago
Bronte Capital

Canadian non-standard mortgages: a state of play - Regular readers of this blog will be aware that Home Capital Group - a Canadian non-standard mortgage lender - is in financial trouble. The gossip is that ...
1 week ago
Clark Street Value

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals: Broken Biotech with CVR-like Optionality - Over the last couple months I've been developing a basket of small broken biotechnology companies that all peaked around the sector's euphoric days in 2015...
2 weeks ago
Vitaliy Katsenelson Contrarian Edge

Finding High-Quality Companies Today - This article was featured in John Mauldin’s Outside the Box newsletter. Last week in Outside the Box, Jim Mellon shared some good advice on picking stock...
2 weeks ago
OTC Adventures

Ocean Yield ASA – OCY:Oslo / OYIEF:OTC - Just a quick post today to talk about what I think is a very interesting company – Ocean Yield ASA. The company was created in 2012 from assets owned by th...
3 weeks ago
the patient investor's blog

Lessons from the other side (IZEA) - Not everyone invests, but assuredly we all die. As ubiquitous as death is, it's pretty hard to imagine what happens at the end of our existence. No one has...
3 weeks ago
The Investment Garden

Bloomberg Article - Forecast on Decline in Oil Demand - An intersting view on the oil demand which could be - depending on the point of view - positively/negatively impacted impacted from the following changes: ...
3 weeks ago
INCERTO - Medium

The Merchandising of Virtue - *(Excerpts from Skin in the Game) Sontag is about Sontag — Virtue is precisely what you don’t show* I will always remember my encounter with the writer a...
4 weeks ago
The Brooklyn Investor

Bubble Watch - Shiller said the other day that the market can go up 50% from here. OK, so I fell for it and clicked to watch the CNBC video. This was sort of a surprising...
4 weeks ago
Cigarrfimpar

Lessons about leases and liquidation value: a bebe stores, inc case study - I got a comment in the BEBE analysis post related to their $186M in operating lease obligation and what my view was as the company announced that they are ...
4 weeks ago
backoftheenvelopeinvesting

Ferronordic prefs update: IPO conversion special situation - In its Q1’17 report Ferronordic Machines, a Swedish Volvo construction equipment dealer operating in Russia, announced that it’s taking first steps to (lon...
5 weeks ago
Punch Card Investing

Interview with Mr. Geoff Gannon of Focused Compouding - Below is an interview with Mr. Geoff Gannon. Mr. Gannon should be well-known to most...
5 weeks ago
Clear Eyes Investing

Making the Leap from a Liberal Arts Major to a Finance Career - I recently heard a presentation by Paul Smith, the president of the CFA Institute. One of the data points he shared was that, among CFA Charterholders over...
5 weeks ago
Latticework

This Week: Meetup with local #valueinvestors - A very exciting week ahead: Washington, DC Area Frankfurt, Germany Hong Kong New York Stuttgart, Germany Please click here if you’d like to host a local #v...
1 month ago
Base Hit Investing

Berkshire Meeting Notes – Daily Improvement, Business Evolution, and Investment Strategy - Last week I headed to Omaha to attend Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting. Nowadays, there is less of a reason to attend the meeting in person because it i...
1 month ago
Fundoo Professor

Some Thoughts on Visual Thinking - http://bit.ly/2pNwEtUFiled under: Security & Business Analysis
1 month ago
The Nanocap Journal

American Church Mortgage Company (ACMC) - American Church Mortgage is selling for 40% of intrinsic value, but, like many nano-cap stocks, has its share of risks and liquidity issues. Low insider ow...
2 months ago
The Rational Walk

Book Review: Blockchain Revolution - The idea of cutting out the middleman has always been an attractive concept because doing so promises to lower costs and produce potential benefits for bot...
2 months ago
Above the Market

I Hope This Doesn’t Describe You - The new issue of Research magazine is now available online. Its theme is evidence-based investing. I encourage you to read it in its entirety. My contribut...
2 months ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

Diversification, Adaptation, and Stock Market Valuation - Looking back at asset class performance over the course of market history, we notice a hierarchy of excess returns. Small caps generated excess returns ov...
2 months ago
What Works on Wall Street

Successful Active Stock Investing is Hard: Here are Seven Traits that I Believe are Required for Active Investors to Win in the Long Term - Years of experience have taught me that to be a successful active investor requires a very specific set of characteristics, and that many investors attem...
3 months ago
Alex Bossert's Thoughts on Value Investing

Invitation to the 2017 Yellow BRKers Party at the Berkshire Annual Meeting - You are invited to an event I plan every year during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting weekend. The Yellow BRKers will be held Friday, May 5th, 2017 at...
3 months ago
Net Net Hunter

Your Essential Guide to Peter Cundill Investing - How did Peter Cundill earn one of the best investment records of all time? By focusing on cheap, beaten down, international deep value stocks. Get the de...
3 months ago
loyunhao

Under Armour is in trouble - The long streak of 20+% growth has come to an end. The bankruptcy of Sports Authority is one reason, Kevin Durant joining Golden State Warriors could be an...
3 months ago
Robin Øvrebø – Nordnetbloggen.no

Casestudier av Buffetts kjøp av Burlington Northern Santa Fe, de fire flyselskapene og Apple. - Forrige lørdag publiserte Warren Buffett sitt aksjonærbrev for ligningsåret 2016. Brevet finner du her. Det er alltid interessant lesning og det blir skr...
3 months ago
Asif Khan Blog

Undervalued stock vs undervalued product - By reading about many investors I have realized that looking at an investment case from different angles and perspectives unearth insights which can be v...
3 months ago
Adept Analyst

Economic Outlook for 02/28/2017 - An overview of the Economic Outlook for U.S. Stock Market can be found at the following: Adept Analyst Economic Outlook 02282017 The post Economic Outloo...
3 months ago
A Pauper in the Midst of Wealth

3 Tips To Help You Survive The Gig Economy - How you can survive the gig economy. By Silvia Palasca Millennials are poorer than their parents; they are the first generation to have experienced debt ...
4 months ago
Stoic Investing

Risk Management : Art of Living another day !!! - GUEST POST Today’s post is by Manish Dhawan, founder of Mystic Wealth and my co-host at Stoic Investing Podcast. I know of very less people, who are as co...
5 months ago
Canadian Value Investing

Top Investments for 2017 - *2016 Year in Review* 2016 was a continuation of the bull market that is now the second longest on record. If it continues into March of this year it will...
5 months ago
= Value = Venture

Some Things I’ve Learned over the Years - First some housekeeping. I will be launching a Delaware-based fund/partnership early next year with more details to come over the following several months ...
6 months ago
agnostic-investing

Updates Sierra Rutile, American Farmland - Sierra RutileThe 36 GBX merger consideration has hit the account yesterday. There was some hiccup in the meantime, but I just waited it out. Dams can be a ...
6 months ago
SimoleonSense

Restarting in 2017. - Dear Readers, It has been 4 years since I have actively managed this blog. SimoleonSense started in 2006 with a focus on helping intelligent individuals be...
6 months ago
10Q Detective

How Secure is Ferrellgas Partners'18-Percent Yield? - One might infer that the market has already discounted Ferrellgas Partners (FGP-$5.55) reported $628.8 million asset write-down of its disastrous 2015 acqu...
6 months ago
The Mission - Medium

How to Build 44,000 Facebook Fans in 3 Months - I was scrolling through the various notifications on my lock screen last week when I came across one I don’t often get. There, next to the blue iMessage ...
10 months ago
Joshua Kennon

Mondelez Makes Bid To Acquire The Hershey Company - Mondelez Makes Bid To Acquire The Hershey Company Mondelez International, maker of Cadbury Chocolate and Oreo Cookies, has launched a takeover bid for Th...
11 months ago
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