by Jason Apollo Voss | 09 04 2009 | Blog
Well sometimes you just have to smile. I posted a guide to the first quarter earnings season yesterday and I specifically mentioned financial firms, as well as the lack of pre-announcements. Enter:Wells Fargo. They have pre-announced this morning that they had a...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 08 04 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Hello everyone! In this post I wanted to highlight for each of you one of the moments that always catches my attention as an investor. Namely, when a successful business decides to branch out into an entirely new field. Because this sort of thing is so common, it is...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 08 04 2009 | Blog
So the 1st Quarter for most U.S. companies ended on March 31st. Back in olden days it would take companies a long time to close their books and so most of them would report their earnings about 6 weeks after the close of the quarter. But with today’s super...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 06 04 2009 | Blog
Wow! That’s a bold title. Right? Let’s distill it all down to principles shall we? The model for long-term economic success is: income > spending = savings (or investments) savings/investments are directed to places where benefits > costs And that is...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 06 04 2009 | Blog
I hope that everyone’s weekend was outstanding! Waaaay back when the blog was in its early days I had said that strong, well-managed businesses typically behave in a rational way, even if their investors do not. That meant that there would be opportunities in a...
