The Iconoclast Investor

In 2000, Time magazine ran a memorable cover story about golden rice, a rice strain genetically modified to contain beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency is a scourge in the developing world. The lack of it can lead to blindness in pregnant women, miscarriages and leads to as many as 500,000 children [...]

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Today I’m bringing you a special Q&A with Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Editor Thomas Garrity. Small-cap stocks are leading the current market advance: while the Dow Industrials are up 26% over the past 13 weeks, the S&P 600 Small-Cap 600 Index is up a whopping 39%. Even better, stocks currently recommended by Cabot Small-Cap Confidential are [...]

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The last few weeks have seen a lively discussion in Cabot Wealth Advisory and on our blog about the possibility of a car-free world. Some readers have come out strongly in favor of the idea, while others have taken a slightly different view. I received a few more interesting comments this week and wanted to [...]

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We’re all familiar with the story about the frog.  If you drop him in boiling water, he’ll jump right out.  But if you put him in cold water and then heat it to boiling, he’ll adjust gradually to the increasing temperature, be lulled into inaction, and die.
It’s not true; the frog will eventually jump out.  [...]

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Last weekend, I wrote about the mostly car-free German community of Vauban and I received lots of great responses both by email and here on our blog. Thanks to everyone who wrote in, the letters gave me a lot to think about and some even made me laugh. Today, I’m going to share some of [...]

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