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Mispriced Bonds

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Since June, 2010, I’ve been selling off large chunks of my bond portfolio. And today, my bond allocation is lower than it’s been in…

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Big Gain Dilemma?

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4UK657GQ837E At the beginning of June of 2010, I unloaded some bonds and bought some stocks. Over a couple of drinks last week, while sitting on…

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I Just Found $35,000 - So What Did I Do With It?

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Earlier this summer I found $35,000. It was in a brown envelope, in a ditch, about a mile from my parent’s place. OK, I…

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Coca Cola -The World’s Easiest Business to Value?

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Earlier this week, I bought $65,000 worth of Coca Cola shares at $50 per share, adding to the Coke shares that I bought in 2003…

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Beating the Market with Bonds

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Years ago I read a great book by Michael O’Higgins, titled Beating the DOW with Bonds [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000C4T352?ie=UTF8&…

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A Million Dollars on a Teacher’s Salary

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I’ll admit it. I had the superficial goal of amassing a million dollars on a school teacher’s salary before I was forty. I had…

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Losing Stocks Continue Their Winning Ways

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How are the biggest losers doing? Readers, I asked you to create a portfolio of stocks that you thought would be hopeless. You put together 23…

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I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours!

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Do you remember what investing in the late 90s was like?  You could put $5000 into a tech stock, and at the end of the month…

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Who’s Great at Picking Terrible Stocks?

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Nobody tries picking a losing stock on purpose, but despite your best (and sometimes greediest) intentions, we find ourselves occasionally face down on the pavement, courtesy…

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The Biggest Losers Beat The Olympians Out of the Blocks

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Readers:  Thank you for putting together the worst portfolio you could think of. I asked you to put together a collection of stocks that you thought…

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