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Articles by Adam Fischbaum
Buy This Sleeper Media Stock For Growth And Income
Bill Gates, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) founder and internet godfather, penned an essay in 1996 that contained the now famous quote "content is king." Gates' thesis was that the internet would become a marketplace for content. Twenty-two years later, the Oklahoma-style land rush to produce and acquire the most and best content continues at a breakneck pace. AT&T (NYSE: T ) acquired content powerhouse Time Warner (NYSE: TWX ).
Millennials: The Real Greatest Generation
From a demographic trend standpoint, the 20th century in the United States was the "Century of the Named Generations". Ok, cut me some slack. It's hard to come up with catchphrases sometimes. The second decade of the 20th Century saw the rise of the post-World War I Lost Generation, so named because of the horror of the world's first, truly modern war inflicted on those who served and returned forever scarred.
3 High-Yield Financial Stocks For A Late-Term Bull Market
Today's vernacular is riddled with acronyms ending in the letter "O": IMO, YOLO, BOGO, and the newest one that's most relevant to the investing racket, FOMO, which stands for "Fear of Missing Out". FOMO can often drive the type of investment behavior that can lead to bubbles and mania. We saw lots of FOMO during the dot-com bubble of the late 90s. However, professionally speaking, "fear of missing out" sounds almost as absurd as "fear of success".
3 Easy Ways To Spot A Value Stock
Value investors get a bad rap. Sometimes, value investing is referred to as "cigar butt" investing, in that picking up cheap, undervalued stocks is equivalent to picking up mostly smoked cigars off of the sidewalk. A good friend and colleague of mine used to call me a "dumpster diver". Guilty. Why value? Personally, I hate overpaying. The old Wall Street maxim "buy low, sell high" is in direct conflict with "buy high, sell higher". Typically, value stocks are less volatile than growth stocks.
Avoid These 3 Stocks Like The Plague
I had a manager at a firm I used work with. This guy had been in the investment racket for what seems like forever. He was always available to give young brokers advice on stock selection. He would refer to stocks that carried too much risk as "chocolate covered hand grenades." They looked enticing but sooner or later were guaranteed to blow up in your face. Coming of age in the business during the Tech Bubble of the mid-1990s, I learned a lot about ridiculous valuations.
Avoid These 3 Stocks like the Plague: Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), Tesla Inc (TSLA)
I had a manager at a firm I used work with. This guy had been in the investment racket for what seems like forever. He was always available to give young brokers advice on stock selection. He would refer to stocks that carried too much risk as “chocolate covered hand grenades.” They looked enticing but sooner or later were guaranteed to blow up in your face. Coming of age in the business during the Tech Bubble of the mid-1990s, I learned a lot about ridiculous valuations.
Sanofi: Pharma Company Leading The Race For A Zika Vaccine
Sometimes, you'd think that the worst diseases to threaten mankind come from tropical environments. They do. AIDS came from sub equatorial Africa, as did the Ebola virus. Malaria, tropical. Yellow fever, for which there is no cure or vaccine, tropical. Now the Zika virus which, like Malaria and Yellow Fever, is mosquito borne.
Why You Shouldn't Panic About Government Debt
I have a long time client who is always convinced that the financial sky is falling. Recently he called me, worried that the nation is $19 trillion in debt. He's not alone in this worry -- $19 trillion sounds like a lot. But is that a real number? And how fast is the debt train hurtling towards us? So I decided to do some research.
Defensive Investors Are Overlooking These 3 Discounted Blue Chips
My friends all know that I'm not a new-car buyer. I can't rationalize the instant depreciation signing new-car paperwork creates. It would probably keep me up at night. Recently, a client came to me dead set on buying a new Lexus ES. Then she asked my opinion. She wasn't pleased with my answer, which ended with "... a complete waste of money you and I have worked so hard together to preserve and grow." It was clear she was already set on a new car.
Buffett Would Love This Unglamorous Growth Stock
Warren Buffett became one of the richest men on the planet by making smart investments in what many would consider boring, unglamorous businesses. Property-casualty insurance, railroads, soft serve ice cream, and residential real estate brokerage are a few of the mundane sectors that have enriched him and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, NYSE: BRK.B) shareholders. One of the most lucrative "boring" sectors I've watched throughout my career has been retail aftermarket auto parts. It's consistent.
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