Department store Kohl’s (KSS) reported another disastrous quarter Tuesday morning before the open and shares are being taken to the woodshed (-24%). KSS shares are now down more than 80% over the last three years. I used to be fatally…
Unfortunately in life sometimes we have to learn lessons the hard way through painful experience and failure. It would be nice if we could learn from other people’s experiences and books and not make the same mistakes that others before…
I have recently been reading the 5th edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett edited by Lawrence Cunningham. Reading these excerpts from Buffett’s Berkshire Annual Letters over the years has been an extremely calming experience for me, almost a form…
Earlier this month news broke that Berkshire Hathaway had acquired a position in beaten down retailer Ulta Beauty (ULTA). The stock soared the next day in reaction but it’s coming back to earth this morning after a weak earnings report…
In his seminal 1994 talk at USC’s Business School, Charlie Munger – the greatest mind ever to apply himself to investing – started by saying “the art of stock picking [is] a subdivision of the art of worldly wisdom”. Munger…
When I was in college my best friend had a serious interest in economics. The only child of Indian immigrants, he had a deep need to become wealthy. Perhaps he felt that wealth would cause him to be accepted and…
The prices of stocks are affected by literally anything and everything that happens in our world… But these happenings do not make themselves felt in Wall Street in an impersonal way, like so many jigglings on a seismograph. What registers…
At the end of his long life, Charlie Munger expressed doubts about the future of value investing: I think that the modern investors, to get ahead, almost has to get in a few stocks that are way above average. They…
Written on the occasion of Warren Buffett’s 93rd birthday (8/30/23): The game taught me the game – Jesse Livermore There are four perennial approaches to the stock game: value, macro, momentum and technical. Value investing was founded by Ben Graham…
In general, there are two types of successful investors – and they don’t understand each other. Corresponding to each winning type, there is a losing type. One winning type buys what Peter Lynch called “stalwarts” and is exemplified by Warren…