Word: cheap
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...after the crash, most of those preferred shares seemed so cheap that Graham couldn't bear to part with them, he wrote in his memoirs. They kept falling, and his profit soon turned to a loss. His fund (equivalent to a modern hedge fund) ended the year down 20%. In 1930 it dropped 50.5%; in 1931 16%; in 1932 3%. "The stock market," as Graham resignedly put it in the first edition of his book with David Dodd, Security Analysis (1934), "is a voting machine rather than weighing machine...
...saying, "but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." Over time, Graham's strategy of buying stocks that seemed inexpensive relative to a company's underlying assets and earnings really was (and presumably still is) a profitable strategy. But for months and even years on end, cheap stocks are perfectly capable of getting cheaper...
...important lesson to remember these days. Stock prices have dropped a lot, so stocks look a whole lot cheaper than they were just a couple of months ago. By some - but certainly not all - measures they even look cheap in historical terms. But that's no guarantee prices won't keep dropping...
...least as good a chance of stumbling upon success in the States as you do of mispronouncing her name. That shouldn’t stop you from dropping it, though. This Swedish indie star is already selling out venues across the U.S. See her while she’s cheap, so you can say you knew her back when. Thursday, Oct. 23 at 9:00 p.m. , Paradise Rock Club, $15 3) Easy to Remember Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club is celebrating its 100th Anniversary with the play Mnemonic. It’s been described as “multi-medial?...
...alternative-energy economy. His rationale for doing so includes some hard truths about the current economic mess: "The engine of economic growth for the past 20 years is not going to be there for the next 20. That was consumer spending. Basically, we turbocharged this economy based on cheap credit." But the days of easy credit are over, Obama said, "because there is too much deleveraging taking place, too much debt." A new economic turbocharger is going to have to be found, and "there is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy...