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Investing in Founders, Not Figures- When Management Quality Trumps the Balance Sheet

Investing in Founders, Not Figures: When Management Quality Trumps the Balance Sheet

There is an old joke in finance that says something like this: you can teach a monkey to read a balance sheet (or pick stocks). The punchline, of course, is that plenty of professional investors have proven this true, and the monkey often picks better stocks. The joke lands because it touches something uncomfortable. We […]

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CapEx vs. OpEx- The Accounting Shell Game Management Hopes You Do Not Notice

CapEx vs. OpEx: The Accounting Shell Game Management Hopes You Do Not Notice

Somewhere in a glass tower, a chief financial officer is staring at a spending decision. The money will leave the company either way. The work will get done either way. But where that spending lands on the financial statements is a choice, and that choice can transform an ugly quarter into a celebrated one. It

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Don't Get Railroaded- Investing Lessons from the 1890s

Don’t Get “Railroaded”: Investing Lessons from the 1890s

The 1890s were supposed to be the decade of unstoppable progress. Railroads had stitched America together. Capital was flowing. The future was obvious to everyone who had eyes. And then the whole thing collapsed. The Panic of 1893 wiped hundreds of railroads, shuttered 15,000 businesses, and left unemployment hovering around levels that would not be

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Why the Best ESG Strategy is Just Buying the S&P 500 and Planting Trees Yourself

Why the Best ESG Strategy is Just Buying the S&P 500 and Planting Trees Yourself

There is a particular kind of guilt that comes with investing. You hand your money to a brokerage, it flows into companies you have never visited, and somewhere a factory hums a little louder. ESG funds were supposed to fix that. They promised a world where your portfolio could grow and your conscience could rest.

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