The housing market apparently isn't getting any better. People who were stretched to the max of their personal resources only a few short years ago are apparently not getting ... Read More

As many of my readers know, I'm a big fan of Tweedy, Browne & Company. The Park Avenue value-investing powerhouse started as a brokerage firm serving Benjamin Graham, and ... Read More

Yesterday, I became an uncle. As I was in the hospital, holding my niece, the time value of money factors started rolling through my head. If she could ... Read More

Warren Buffett once said, “No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” ... Read More

Last Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the biggest single one day percentage drop in Wall Street history. If you want to see how these events can directly or ... Read More

You may not even know it, but your life is deeply affected by the London Inter Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR. That's because companies - those you might have ... Read More

Peter Lynch suggested on a Charlie Rose interview that investors might be able to tell when the market is getting overpriced by subtracting the current rate of expected inflation from ... Read More

You may have heard of buy and hold investing but wonder what exactly it entails, how you can get your stocks to compound on their own without a lot of ... Read More

This week, I decided that it would be wise to once again read Poor Charlie's Almanack, a book released at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting detailing the wit and wisdom ... Read More

Awhile ago, I wrote an article for you called "Making Money in Bad Companies". In it, I detailed a strategy, famously proposed by Ben Graham in Security Analysis, that ... Read More

Every year, millions of students throughout the world leave for college to work toward a better life for themselves and the families they someday hope to have. They spend countless ... Read More

Like a great cup of coffee, curling up next to the fireplace with a good book, or the feeling you get when you put your hands on the steering wheel ... Read More

It's now 3:19 a.m. here and I'm up reading an annual report for a chain of restaurants that is, to a large degree, regional. After putting together my basic ... Read More