Best Of: It’s the Beginning of an Era for Amazon
Editor’s note: In February 2019, we said it was “the beginning of an era” for Amazon. As 2019 comes to a close, Amazon’s stock…
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A New Year, a New Decade, and It’s Time to Get Back to the Basics
Quick question, and answer honestly: Do you have an exit strategy in place for each of your stocks? Hold that answer for a moment.
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Best of: Why WeWork Summed Up the Unicorn Bubble
Editor’s Note: In August, before the IPO was canceled, we said that WeWork sums up “everything that is wrong” with the unicorn bubble. Then…
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Best of: The Optometrist Investor Who Became a Billionaire
Editor’s note: While Hendrik Bessembinder’s “most stocks are duds” research was shocking and a bit of a bummer, the story of “Dr. Herbie” was…
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Best of: Most Stocks are Duds (But You Can Win Anyway)
Editor’s note: We come across a lot of research, and the study performed by Hendrik Bessembinder earlier this year was one of the most…
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Best of: A Look Back at the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Editor’s note: Thanks to U.S.-China trade negotiations, the confirmation of Brexit, and various other factors, 2019 was the year global trade felt a backlash.
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Will the United Kingdom Still Exist in Five Years?
The euro had its debut as a currency on Jan. 1, 1999, initially rolling out for 11 member states. From the very…
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To Invest in that Startup, Maybe Get a Stockbroker’s License
The government has a bunch of weird and dumb rules. Anybody who flies commercial has experienced this. It’s hard to see how…
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Will FedEx Get Disrupted Like Kodak?
A dominant theme for the 2020s will be “the disrupters versus the disrupted.” The disrupters are the companies and industries that are…
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Never Forget the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
You should never forget the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894. No seriously, it’s good investing advice. That will take some explaining,…
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