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I Hate Indecent People

There is one category of people that I cannot stand, and those are people who are indecent human beings.

I’ve had the misfortune of getting to know far too many more of these people than I care to recall.

I once participated in a group lunch at a restaurant in which our server, a young kid who

Buy What You Understand

I think the best advice I can give anyone about stocks is "buy what you understand."

This mnemonic is easily confused with its deceptive cousin "Buy what you know."  People--and I used to be one of them--are fond of buying stocks of companies that they "know," usually from using the company's products but sometimes from something

Enron Teaches Us That a Moral Compass Matters

I recently finished reading "The Smartest Guys in the Room," an amazing account of the characters who were complicit in the rise and fall of Enron.   It is a page turner; I couldn't put it down.

The authors, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, tell a story of how exaggeration, manipulation and obsession with the numbers, particularly
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