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Past Topics (Most topics are not specific to the time period when written)
 April 7, 2013  The Joy of Owning Companies   The American Housing and Credit markets improve  The Canadian Economy and the Canada Pension Plan
 February 18, 2013  Stock Traders Versus Investors  The Magic of our Organized Economic Systems   Leadership versus Systems
 December 29, 2012  Your Million Dollar Strategy   Has anyone made money in stocks since the year 2000?  Stocks Versus Bonds over the years
 November 17, 2012  Theoretical Returns from investing  Actual Returns from investing in the S&P 500 and corporate bonds  NHL Hockey as a business
 Sept 9, 2012  Watching the markets too closely is counter productive?  A Rational Approach to Investing  Competitive Advantage and High ROEs
 July 1, 2012  How Warren Buffett motivates his managers  Manipulated Markets? (Threat or opportunity?)  Dollar Laws
 April 6, 2012  Imagine. You. Rich.  The simple (but not easy) formula to get rich by investing  Warren Buffett super saver and investor
 March 18, 2012  Is it Too Late to Invest?  Should companies Buy or Rent their space needs?  How much Money goes "into" the market?
 February 18, 2012  The Magic of Compound Returns  The definition of Investing  People everywhere want the same thing - to consume!
 January 14, 2012  Wisdom of Warren Buffett (the irrationality of buying bonds at low interest rates and other topics)  Borrow to Invest?
 December 27, 2011  How we beat the market again in 2011  Why can't Canadians lock in their mortgage rates for 25 years?  Canadian house prices likely to fall
 October 9, 2011  Fears, Fears and more Fears  A World of Stocks on Sale?  Global Exchange Traded Funds for You
 Sept. 3, 2011  Time to Invest in Stocks?  Borrow to Invest?  Review of Basics
 June 12, 2011  Sino-Forest  Risk of Stocks  Exchange Traded Funds 
 March 5, 2011  Getting Started Investing  Graduating from Mutual Funds to Stocks  RRSPs, RESPs and Tax Free Savings Accounts Explained
 January 8, 2011  What return can you expect your stock portfolio to provide?  Mental Models - how to quickly accept or reject economic claims  Could Buying Local lead to a new Stone Age
 December 14, 2010  Is The End Nigh?  Death of the U.S. dollar?  Does Gold Track Inflation?
 November 7, 2010  Past Stock Prices don't matter  Warren Buffett and Investment Education Editorial - public washrooms not private enough?
 October 10, 2010  How to Invest Intelligently in businesses through stocks  CMHC - bankruptcy candidate?  The High Cost of Free
 September 11, 2010  Invest in Long-term bonds or Stocks?  Dow Jones Industrial Average Valuation  United States Dollar to implode?
 August 1, 2010  Good is the Enemy of Great  What return can you expect from your stocks?  Remember, there's a company under that stock
 June 29, 2010  The Upside of Down  Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders  
 May 29, 2010  Invest based on corporate earnings not on  Squiggles on a Chart  A World in debt?  
 May 2, 2010  Your RRSP - It's Much Smaller than you Thought  The Canadian   Economy  In Praise of Buying from Big Retailers
 March 21, 2010  Beware Mis-leading cash Dividend yields  High Canadian dollar emergency  Is U.S. stock market over-valued
 February 14, 2010  Slay the Retirement Savings Monster  The down-side of tax deferred savings plans  How to Make Money in Stocks
 December 8, 2009  Editor's Investment Performance  Financial Independence  When Your Money Makes More Than You Do
 November 29, 2009  Market Direction is unknown  Canadian Mortgage Delinquencies  The burden of jumbo mortgages
 September 6, 2009  Banking and Risk  Businesses and Charity   How I Saved $8000 with a phone call.
 August 9, 2009  Best of times? or Worst of Times?  Stock Market Valuation  Warren Buffett and the recession
 July 26, 2009  Compound Returns  Performance  An Investment Fund
 July 11, 2009  The Joy of Wealth  When Opportunity Knocks...  Aging Population Data
 June 20, 2009  A Quadrupled RRSP  Dividend Reinvestment Plans  Free Report
 April 25, 2009  It Costs a lot of Money to be Poor!  House Wealth has Vaporized?  Borrow to Invest?
 April 3, 2009  How Investors Bought High and Sold Low  How to Get Help Selecting Stocks  The Canadian Economy
 March 1, 2009  Warren Buffett's 2008 letter  Is Buy and Hold Dead?  Stocks versus Bonds
 January 25, 2008  Stocks versus Government Bonds  Budget Wish List  Housing Prices
 November 8, 2008  Should You Invest Now?  Stock Earnings Versus GDP  S&P 500 Historic P/E Ratios
 September 28, 2008  Credit Crisis - What's At Stake?  How Do Banks Work?  Who Gets Bailed Out?
 August 22, 2008  Are You Mr. Market?  Portfolio Management  Market Direction
 July 6, 2008  Market Declines - Problem or Opportunity?  Buying Companies at Book Value  Tax Free Savings Account
 June 1, 2008  It costs a lot of Money to be Rich  Scams  Stocks We analyse
 May 4, 2008  MicroSoft and Yahoo bid  Finding Hidden Earnings  Car prices dropping
 April 5, 2008  It All Starts With Saving Money  Law of Unintended Consequences  Corrupted IPO practices
 March 29, 2008  Competitive Advantage  Regression to the Mean  Market Outlook
 March 2, 2008  Warren Buffett's 2007 letter  Characteristics of Attractive Businesses Realistic Market Expectations
 February 9, 2008  Buy Stocks Now?  Stock Index Valuations  Mortgage Life Insurance
 January 20, 2008  Revenge of the Procrastinators Off-Balance Sheet liability is Oxymoron?  Price to Book Value Ratio
 January 6, 2008  Outlook for 2008  Companies that grow like snowballs  Stupid Banker Tricks
 November 3, 2007  High Dollar Emergency  Buy U.S. Dollars?  Sell Manufacturers?
 October 21, 2007  Build Your Portfolio like Buffett  Information is more valuable than products  Are we leaving debts to the next generation?
 October 7, 2007  Realistic Returns from Stocks  High Canadian Dollar  
 September 23, 2007  Bank Exchange Rate fees excessive?  Canadians are now way richer in U.S. dollars Can't Beat this Market Down with a Stick?
 September 18, 2007  Canadian Dollar soars!  
 September 1, 2007  In praise of eBay  Look for toll-booth businesses  Invest like Warren Buffett
 August 12, 2007  Market Direction? The long-term arbitrage  Exchange rates and implications
 July 29, 2007  A lulu LEMON of a Stock?  Price Differentiation  A Rapidly Aging Canada
 July 14, 2007  Getting Rich in Stocks is Simple, but not Easy  Conrad Black  True Independence
 July 2, 2007  Stock Market Direction  Canadian dollar fluctuations  Pension versus a self-managed pot of money
 May 27, 2007  Don't hope to Get Rich, Plan for it  Magic of Compound Interest and Returns  Impact of Higher Dollar
 May 13, 2007 Are you Getting Enough Return?  Asset Allocation and the all-stocks approach  Non-GAAP or Non-Sense?
 April 3, 2007  Is Preservation of Capital dangerous to your Wealth? Does Asset Allocation really Explain 90% of returns? At what rate will Your Money Grow?
 March 4, 2007  Risk Tolerance  Insurance Needs  Mutual Funds versus ETFs
 February 4, 2007  3 words of Investing Advice of incredible value  Can You Take the Heat of being in Stocks?  Scams to Avoid
 January 13, 2007  Goal Achievement  Lottery Mentality  Income Trusts and taxes
 December 21, 2006    Your Net Worth  
November 12, 2006 Is Competition Working?  Don't accept mediocre returns Great Companies Of Canada
October 6, 2006  Back to Basics (ROE, P/E)  Paradoxes of the Market  Interest Rates
 Sept 10, 2006  Return to expect on stock indexes  Return versus GDP  Earnings versus GDP
 August 16, 2006  Making Money in Flat Markets  Compound Returns  Why there are few Sell Ratings
 July 29, 2006  Get rich in stocks  Make Time Your Friend  Compound Growth
 June 28, 2006  Buffett gives away $37 billion  Beware hidden commissions on U.S. stocks  Accepting higher volatility may increase returns
 June 9, 2006  High dollar  Dealing with a market decline  Gasoline taxes
April 16, 2006  Interest Rates  Stock Option Expenses  The Abundance Mentality
April 8, 2006  Financial Engineering  Boring can be good...  Subscription based businesses
March 8, 2006 Trust Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders Why your return matters more in later years
 February 15, 2006  Dual Class Shares  A dollar worth $20?  The Value Trap
January 15, 2006  Strange interest rates  Mortgage strategy  Will stocks increase in 2006?
December 17, 2005  Copy from the Best  Outlook for 2006  Pension Problems
November 20, 2005 TSX Segment Analysis Behavioral Finance  Should you invest in stocks?
November 8, 2005 Stock Market versus Casino Strategy to Get Rich  Avoid the Victim Mentality
October 23, 2005 Income Trusts  Proxy Voting Problem  Finance/ Accounting  Education - value for money
September 29, 2005  Good Industry characteristics and bad Stop Loss Orders Regression to the Mean
September 4, 2005  Hurricane Impact  Impact of currency fluctuations Earnings often not correlated with share price
August 20, 2005 Income Trusts Investment Approaches No-brainer Investing
August 4, 2005 Brand Power Risk Adjusted Returns? Capital gains on bonds signal lower returns ahead
July 18, 2005 Free Trade Floating Currencies Paper Currency worry?
June 30, 2005 Historic stock versus bond returns Are stocks riskier than bonds? Are stock indexes overvalued at this time?
May 30, 2005 Exchange Traded Funds Not all Commodity businesses are bad
May 2005 The Only Two Sources of Money in the Market The Folly of Ethical Investing The Joy of Owning Familiar Companies
April 2005 How to Get Started Investing in Bonds Thinly Traded Stocks
February 2005 Investing in Bonds Convertible Bonds Free Trade
January 2005 Successful Investing Corporate Charity Advisor Conflict of Interest
December 2004 One Up on Wall Street Understanding IPOs Currency Risk
October 2004 How to Lose money thru trading Gold is no Inflation Hedge Sports and Capitalism
September To Succeed in Life - Copy from the Best Trading Tips How to Pick Stocks
August The Insurance Industry  Understanding P/E Ratio Short Selling
July Casual Dining Industry  American Responsiveness Politics and Business Editorial
June Uncommon Profits Fantastic Business Model Lock in profits?
April Insider Trading Future business Trends
March Be Rich, not just Right Exchange traded Funds
February Low risk, high return Income Trust Phenomena Trading Psychology
January Conservation of wealth Why RIM was smart to issue shares
Dec 2003  Time-specific material only
Nov 22 2003 Beware Greedy Managers Beware Bankruptcy candidates Pension Concerns
Nov 2 2003 Financial Services  - the world's best industry? Trading Strategies
October 2003 Time-specific material only
September 2003 Time-specific material only
August 22 2003 Time-specific material only
August 3 2003 Warren Buffett and the Washington Post (129 Bagger and counting!) How to Invest in Stocks Don't be a "Ninny"

And Pension Plan Woes

July 2003 Time-specific material only
June 4  2003 Winners Win
June 21  2003 Warren Buffett investing style
May 10 2003 Warren Buffett investing How earnings can be manipulated
March 2003 Warren Buffett letter
February 16 2003 Investments goals and risk Fixed Income versus Growth in RRSP
January 11 2003 Do as the rich do
January 25 2003 Air Canada and goofy management
 Nov 30 2002  Income Trusts
 Nov 21 2002  Pension Problems Loom
 Nov 10 2002  Portfolio Management
October 27 2002  Realistic Returns  Lessons from Bonds
 September 28 02  Earnongs Growth versus return   Markets are always volatile - get over it!
August 2002  Cash-flow definition  Quality of assets
 July 7 2002  Definition of cash flow
 May 24 02  How to succeed in business and life
 May 11 02  Smarter company growth strategy
April 2002  Growth and Stock price
June 22 02  What Works on Wall Street
 June 8 2002  Nortel  Income tax
Mar 23 02  Why Buy Stocks that are fully valued?  Preservation of Capital
 Mar 9 02 Smart growth versus Stupid Growth  How to Pick Stocks
 Feb 23 2002  Are all Stocks "Holds"?  All stocks are risky  Goofy Management
 Feb 9 2002  P/E expansion and contraction  Adjusted Earnings  Enron
Jan 26 2002  How to identify an attractive industry  Death of the family farm  Canadian Loonie 
Jan 11 2002  Accounting earnings versus adjusted earnings  Dilution and anit-dilution
 Dec 27 2001  Value Line
 Dec 8 2001  Efficient Markets?  
 Nov 24 2001 How the market creates and destroys wealth  Cash Cows and Sick Cows  Money "in" the market?
 Nov 11 2001 This web site as a business  Price to Value Ratio

 

 

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