Stocks have given the highest yield over the past seventy years. The real challenge is to find a stock that is both profitable and safe, which I do using fundamental analysis. My long term strategy looks at ways to measure the safety of companies. In a world with dozens of startups erupting every day, the … Read more
Walgreens has been a U. S. company since Charles R. Walgreen Sr. opened his first drug store in Chicago in 1901. Today, Walgreens has a total of 8,678 stores, in every state and U. S. territories. Last year, however, it proposed to become a Switzerland firm. The CEO of Walgreens planed to merge with Europe-based … Read more
Before World War I only small fractions of Americans invested or had interest in the Stock Market. Many Americans thought of Wall Street with fear and loathing. Populist politicians denounced Wall Street as the center of financial shell games thought up by millionaire operators like Gould, Drew, Morgan and others. But with the conclusion of … Read more
It has been said that all good things must come to an end. In the case of the Roaring Twenties that end came abruptly and unexpectedly. It is easy for one to look back upon the economic situation that lead to the crash and ridicule the experts for not seeing the signs of a potential … Read more