Today marks the one year anniversary of my “Investment Red Flags” column. During the past 12 months, through a series of articles, I have been highlighting a number of early warning signs indicating a business may be experiencing turbulent times and even, in some instances, be tinkering on the brink of failure. Some of the […]

When weighing investment opportunities, I am always skeptical about what I refer to as the “gonna press release”, for it can be an early indication that the emperor has no clothes and that the business is merely all smoke and mirrors. “Gonna” announcements are essentially declarations of what a company intends – or more appropriately, hopes – to accomplish. […]

Who didn’t love The Flintstones, a bunch of cavepeople (or to be politically correct, “Prehistoric Americans”) possessing the ability to recreate modern appliances using Stone Age technology? Fred’s car ran on foot-powered motor. Wilma used a baby woolly mammoth to vacuum the floor. A bird’s beak played groovy 60s records. Animal-operated technology helped The Flintstones […]