The Iconoclast Investor

As you know, the market plunged 778 points yesterday and it’s back up about 400 points today so far. These certainly are interesting times, and there’s no room to complain of boredom with market moves like we’ve seen lately. An interesting story related to the markets and finance today is the possibility that New York [...]

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So now, a little more on Sequenom (SQNM), the little company I wrote about last week after it had earned a spot in Cabot Top Ten Report several times in recent months by bucking the broad market’s downtrend.
Sequenom started out as designer and manufacturer of genetic analysis systems … and this business is growing.  The [...]

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Good morning! The Investing Carnival is up today and you’ll find one of our articles featured there along with other great pieces on the subject. Enjoy!
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I received an email from a reader late on Friday afternoon that I wanted to share with you. Below are the letter and my response.
“I have questions on the bailout–and I don’t know where to find answers.  I would appreciate it if you could help explain to me–or to any reader if you want.
“To start [...]

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The House has rejected the government’s $700 billion bailout plan and the stock market has reacted by plunging several hundred points this afternoon. This is even as the Federal Reserve and foreign central banks agreed to pump billions of dollars into the global financial system to unlock tight lending.
That did little to staunch the bleeding [...]

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Good morning! I received some great comments by email during the weekend regarding the government’s bailout plan. I wanted to share some of them with you here and if you want to read more, I’ll publish them in this weekend’s Cabot Wealth Advisory.
“Why would anyone ever think that congress would come up with anything at [...]

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I want to talk about innovation in the Green sector for a bit. The New York Times published a special section called the Business of Green this week, and I urge you to check it out if you’re interested in the Green sector.
The story I wanted to share with you was about how some dairy [...]

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I received some insightful letters from readers after I wrote an issue of Cabot Wealth Advisory last week about managing your money. Here are two of them:
“Figure out how much money you feel you will need and then multiply that number by two.
“Remember to take into account your federal income tax which may be about [...]

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At the beginning of August, Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Letter featured four buy recommendations that collectively have outperformed the stock market indexes by a noticeable margin.  I’m featuring one of the stocks here because it’s still clearly undervalued.
Colgate-Palmolive (CL) was founded in 1806 by William Colgate in New York City and, after many mergers, acquisitions [...]

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A month ago, I wrote an article about the energy problem in the U.S. that, in my opinion, has been caused by our government’s lack of action to produce any kind of energy plan during the past 35 years.  I quickly learned that a lot of other people have similar concerns, and many of you [...]

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