The business of educating America has been expanding quickly during the past decade. Student enrollments at for-profit post-secondary schools have advanced rapidly during the past couple of years, as adults upgrade their education and skills to achieve higher paying jobs. Also, adults who have lost their jobs are enrolling in vocational training programs and college [...]

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Merry Christmas from everyone at Cabot! I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season full of family, food and fun.
You may have noticed us talking about a special issue of Dick Davis Digest to be published in January that will contain the top stock picks for 2010 from the best investment pickers in the business. [...]

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Many companies became extinct during the 1930s, but the companies that survived helped to build the U.S. into the greatest industrial nation to date. I’m kind of a history buff, and I truly enjoy reading about the origins of companies and how they evolved. In addition to annual reports, Wikipedia usually provides an interesting history [...]

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One of the important objectives of health care reform is to increase the efficiency of the current system from top to bottom. Cutting costs and waste could save billions and reduce everyone’s health care costs considerably. My screening process has led me to a unique company that could play a big role in cutting health [...]

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I am a numbers person–especially when it comes to stock analysis. Every month, I fill up a spreadsheet with 1,000 stocks and 244 columns of data and formulas. I then turn my computer loose, and it goes wild performing two million calculations.
Why so many calculations?
I want the computer to tell me which companies have produced [...]

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