Company: A long-time favorite of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, U.S. Bancorp (USB), over the decades, has been considered one of the safest U.S. financial institutions in which to invest. Over the past several years, very few domestic banks could match USB’s performance, especially in light of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. As opposed to other financial institutions, […]
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USB: An Unusually Safe Bank — OR — An Unscrupulous Self-serving Bank?
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Déjà vu All Over Again: Is the S&P 500 Stuck In A Sideways Trading Pattern?
“Maybe God isn’t omnipotent. Maybe he’s just been around so long, he knows everything.” For those who may be familiar with the movie, the above quote comes from Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors in Groundhog Day. For those who are not familiar with the movie, it is about a weatherman (a rather not nice character […]
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Fundamentals (The Nitty Gritty of Investing)
Catch me a fish and I will eat today, teach me to fish and I will eat every day. One of the most important tasks an investor must undertake is the careful oversight of his or her investments. Like that of an employer, investors must learn to watch over their investments as if they were […]
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Will The Rally Continue?
This morning I read the following article which was provided by The Wall Street Journal’s “The Morning MarketBeat.” Though the facts are interesting, and though the case for a continued market rally is plausible, I’m not so sure the cards our in our favor for continued stock market increases. The Breakfast Briefing As stocks have […]
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Making a Trade
Of all the aspects of trading and investing, this is one of the most simple and, potentially, tricky. It is also (in my humble opinion) one of the most fun. The reason it can be tricky is because of all the various ways to place trades. For the sake of this post, however, I am […]
Outsiders Sometimes Know Best
After posting my last article, I decided to go back in history to locate some information that I thought would be pertinent for this particular moment in time. I decided to do so because I felt very strongly that it would be important to provide readers with certain reminders, especially given that: “Those who cannot […]