My father, Carlton, was and is an avid growth stock investor, and he began writing and publishing the Cabot Market Letter back in 1970 because he wanted to share his ideas with other investors.
I grew up with the business, so l know a lot about both investing and publishing, but at heart I’m more of [...]

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It was just over one year ago that my wife Jeanne gave birth to our first child, Lila. No doubt last Christmas was wonderful, but I have to be honest and say I remember very little of it as we struggled to immediately adjust to this extra person. Our lives had consisted of slow rising [...]

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Ever since the story broke last week that Bernard Madoff had lost perhaps $50 billion of investments entrusted to him by friends, hedge funds, charities, etc., I’ve been looking for the answers to a few questions.
When and how did it first go wrong? Was there one leveraged investment that went bad back before 1999, [...]

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My investing idea for today is about a beaten down sector that was the market’s Fair-Haired Boy just a few months ago.
Back when crude oil was sailing along at $140 a barrel (and higher), everyone knew that solar cells were the wave of the future. Silicon was in short supply and companies like First Solar [...]

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It’s been a tough year for investors, so today I have some New Year’s Resolutions to share with you.
*I will not invest in any growth stock if I can’t give a one-sentence summary of why I like it.
Hint: Hearing it mentioned online or on a TV show doesn’t count!
*I will not allow any stock [...]

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