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Hetty Green believed that women should learn about bank accounts, mortgages, bonds and how interest works. She maintained that married women could also be businesswomen.
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A resource which focuses on investing with heavy emphasis on value investments, the stock market crash of 1929, fundamental analysis, where and what to look for in companies.
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Born in Porbandar, India on October 2, 1869, Mohandas Ghandi, was the political and spiritual leader who pioneered and practiced the principle of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience.
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What are some things that you can do to ensure that your investment in a stock has a higher likelihood of turning into ownership of a company that will be around for the long term?
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Lorraine Hansberry was born the youngest of four to Carl Hansberry and Nannie Hansberry in Chicago, IL on May 19, 1930. She became the first African American, the youngest playwright, the fifth woman to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best play of the season on April 7, 1959 for her a play A Raisin in the Sun, which addressed equal rights in work/housing, and freedom.More
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What's a bear market? How long do they last? Does this mean a recession is coming?
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Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, began buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway in 1962, picking them up for $7 a share for Buffett Partnership, Ltd. It’s become one of the most successful investment vehicles ever.
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In last week’s post, Macro & Microfundamentalist Value Investing: Does It Work?, we discussed macrofundamentalist and microfundamentalist value investing. The former focuses on broad factors that affect securities such as inflation rates, while the latter studies the history of a particular security, noting how the price has changed. Today, we’ll cover where to find some of these financial securities.
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Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929, the middle child born in their grandfather William’s house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. There were a few black-owned businesses; a bank, two insurance companies, a drugstore that grew into a chain of five drugstores throughout the city. He became the second African American to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Value investing, as defined by Benjamin Graham, is a strategy of buying securities only when their market prices are significantly below the calculated intrinsic value. It entails buying what is safe and cheap with little or no concentration on forecasts of relatively near term flows.
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Olive Ann Beech was born on September 25, 1903 in Waverly, Kansas to Franklin Benjamin Mellor and Susannah Miller Mellor. She was the youngest of four girls and would become the co-founder, president, and chairwoman of Beech Aircraft Corporation. Her career spanned 50 years prior to her retirement in September 1982, she was the first woman to head a major aircraft company.
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Fundamental analysis is a method of research that studies financial information to forecast profits, supply and demand, industry strength, management ability, and other factors affecting a stock’s market value and growth potential.
Short-term thinking is not where profits are to be made. As Warren Buffett is quoted to have said, “Our favorite holding period is forever.”
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This week’s “Notable People in History” newsletter features John D. Rockefeller, the businessman and philanthropist who founded the General Education Board in 1902.
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On Tuesday October 29, 1929, just thirty minutes after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) opened, over 3 million stocks were sold off for a loss of over $2 billion. Losses from the stock market crash helped create the Great Depression, a 10-year economic slump that affected all industrialized countries in the world.
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Considered to be one of the first African American women to become a millionaire, Annie Minerva Turnbo was born in Metropolis, Illinois on August 9, 1869 to Robert and Isabella Turnbo. Turnbo took an interest in hair styling, in particular, developing a better way to straighten African American hair without damaging it. By 1920, Turnbo's hair care empire employed 300 people locally and 75,000 agents nationally.More
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This week's LinkedIn newsletter features Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. He became fascinated with the steam engine after seeing one on a trip to Detroit with his father. Ford would build the Quadricycle and his use of the assembly line, above average wages, along with other innovations made automobiles affordable to the average American.
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Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3 ,1906 in St. Louis, MO, Josephine Baker was a world renowned performer, World War II spy, and civil rights advocate who took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with 250,000 other civil rights supporters. In 1922, she joined the cast of Shuffle Along, which became the first successful African American musical, running for more than 500 performances.More
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With over 1,000 patents to his name, Thomas Edison's inventions include the phonograph, the lightbulb, a kinetographic theater, the magnetic iron ore separator, along with the electrographic vote recorder.
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It’s believed that Elizabeth Freeman, Mumbet, was born between 1742-1744, to enslaved African parents in Claverack, New York. Ruled in their favor, Mumbet and Brom became the first enslaved African Americans to be freed under the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 in Brom & Bett v. Ashley which was argued before a county court in August 1871.More
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Marie Antoinette was born Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna on November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria—the musical capital of the world at the time. She was the 15th of 16 children born to Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis of Lorraine.More
