Your Profit is “Virtually” Guaranteed
Investor's Edge • By Mark Tier • October 1, 2005 • Leave a comment
How understanding investment marketing could save you a bundle of money
$100 Oil?
Investor's Edge • By Mark Tier • August 16, 2005 • Leave a comment
Worried about the price of oil going to the moon — or the world running out of oil?
No need to be: at around $100 a barrel the price of oil will plateau for decades.
Cooking the Books—and Screwing the Shareholders
Investor's Edge • By Mark Tier • July 20, 2005 • Leave a comment
A short course in how to do it (and how to make sure it isn’t done to you!)
Windfall Profits
Investor's Edge • By Mark Tier • May 23, 2005 • Leave a comment
How can you tell when one of your investments has just hit the jackpot?
Investment Books Worth Reading
Recommended Investment Books • By Mark Tier • April 21, 2005 • Leave a comment
Investment Books Worth Reading There are thousands of investment books available — with dozens more being issued every month. Some of them are worth reading. Here are the books that I’ve found very helpful. They also expand on some aspects of the material in The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett and George Soros. And, in fact,…
A Good Story—but a Good Investment?
Investor's Edge • By Mark Tier • April 23, 2005 • Leave a comment
Excited about a stock? It pays to remember Warren Buffett’s Investing Rule #1: “Never Lose Money”
Books about Warren Buffett
Recommended Investment Books • By Mark Tier • April 20, 2005 • Leave a comment
Nebraska.
Unless you’re a Buffett junkie, the problem is: what to read and what not to read?
Books About George Soros
Book Reviews, Recommended Investment Books • By Mark Tier • April 20, 2005 • Leave a comment
Books About George Soros Far less, sad to say, has been written about George Soros, no doubt because both the man and his methods are far more complex and less accessible than is the case with Buffett. The best introduction is Robert Slater’s bio-graphy, Soros: the Life and Times of the World’s Greatest Investor. Slater emphasizes…
Books on Other Master Investors Part 1
Recommended Investment Books • By Mark Tier • April 20, 2005 • Leave a comment
Books on Other Master Investors Part 1 It’s worth studying the methods of as many other Master Investors as you can find, especially if you discover that neither Buffett’s nor Soros’s approach fits you. Here are some suggestions: Only one book has been written about Carl Icahn: King Icahn by Mark Stevens. It’s a fascinating journey into…
Antidotes to the Seven Deadly Investment Sins
Book Reviews, Recommended Investment Books • By Mark Tier • April 20, 2005 • Leave a comment
The Seven Deadly Investment Sins need “powerful magic” to be exorcised — exactly what you’ll find in these three books.