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Investments and Investing
- The portfolio section of Quicken.com. You can create a model portfolio and your stock prices will be updated daily to help you track your investments. The site is free, though you must register, and it is in general clean and easy to use.
- Hoovers.com A useful site though the annual fee is high. The "Companies" section, within the "Companies and Industries" section, is the most helpful. It allows you to review a list of most Fortune 500 companies, get info on them, and then jump to their website. From there you can get even more information. The annual fee also includes several summaries of financial information on companies. All in all, a good site.
- Wall Street Journal With an annual fee of $155 one can get quality journalism (often absent on the Internet), and for an additional fee you can get Barron's online.
- www.contraryinvestor.com This site's articles, essays, and opinions offered an alternative to all the optimism of the last twenty years, and which which is still lurking about. The editors base their investment philosophy on analysis of business fundamentals, independence of thought, flexibility, and patience. Their Library section has a list of the best, classic books about the stock market which comes highly recommended. I recommend their weekly opinion, "Market Observations" which is for paid subscribers. I also recommend an essay which one can download from this site, the Bearish Contrarian's Psychological First Aid Kit.
- www.cross-currents.net This site offered an alternative to all the optimism in the 1990-2007 time-frame, and that scepticism is still in need today. Run by a sophisticated and principled professional, the superb essay "Picture of a Stock Market Mania comes from this site. I also recommend their monthly commentary/newsletter.
- Comstock Commentary This mutual fund publishes commentary three times a week, just two to three paragraphs. That commentary provides a tonic to all the unrealistic investing journalism out today. These people are devout and principled bears with plenty of knowledge to back them up. Their commentary is always a refreshing read.
- National Debt Website Our national debt is between $12.3 trillion and $85 trillion (according to some professionals) as of 2/9/10.
- PrudentBear.com Another realistic website.
- A Simple Calculation For those confused by conflicting claims re P/E ratios and how that makes the current market overvalued or undervalued, please see this excellent article at Comstockfunds.com for the correct answer, and a dose of common sense.
- One book I can reccomend is The Coming Mutual Fund Crisis by Donald Christensen. Though the title is hyperbole, the book presents an excellent financial history of the last twenty years. It indicts the mutual fund and finance industry, and is full of common sense investing advice. Because it is out of print, it has to be purchased from a used book seller.
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