In the mid 1990s Netscape Communications, one of the early darlings of the dot-com craze, embarked on a roadshow to meet with prospective investors prior to its IPO. In its […]

“The best business is a royalty on the growth of others, requiring little capital itself.” – Warren Buffett “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci Leverage does wonders […]

“We have made very little progress in life by trying to outguess these macroeconomic factors. We basically have abdicated. We’re just swimming all the time, and we let the tide […]

“Corporations get the shareholders they deserve.”                                                                                      – Warren Buffett With valuations at cycle highs there is no shortage of analogies to compare the market today to its past peaks. […]

“An investor who does not do research is like a poker player who does not look at the cards.” – Peter Lynch McCaw Cellular Communications was founded in the mid-1960s […]

Over 200 years after the fall of Genghis Khan his empire was in tatters, split up among warring factions divided by tribalism and nominally ruled by outsiders in China and […]

“All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there.”                                                                                     – Charlie Munger The role of aviation reached a new level in World […]

Alex Bavelas was a 20th century psychosociologist whose research was primarily focused on how information traveled and gained acceptance in small networks. After graduating from MIT, he moved to Stanford […]

So what is going on with the recent market volatility?  Is there anything to really be concerned about?  Well, it would seem that the global markets are tired from so […]