Over the last few days, spreads on Portuguese debt have blown out to record levels, as the Euro debt contagion continues to spread.
FedEx has more room to grow and less debt, but UPS has a much larger dividend and greater market share.
Our top sectors for 2012 include Emerging Markets, Networking Equipment, Life Insurance and Oil Services.
Businesses that can help people kill time, escape from reality and fantasize about a parallel life can prosper in a stagnating economy and an unequal society.
Humintelligence, humdiligence and humambition are the three most important traits to the making of a great investor.
The lie, of course, is that you can get money for nothing, that it is possible—and even easy—to beat the market without doing any real work.