Here’s where I’ve posted the text of some of the speeches and articles I’ve contributed to various audiences, magazines, or Web sites over the years. I’ve done so in hopes they might provide some helpful background information for you in your quest for success as a self-sufficient long-term fundamental investor.

The problem is I don’t know if the ones I’ve selected are those you might consider to be the most helpful. Come onto the blog and comment on which ones help you and which ones don’t, or what puzzles or intrigues you that you’d like me to talk about.

If there’s another site that you believe has as good or better information—or even makes a good case for contradicting my point of view—feel free to link to it in your comments so we can share it with others, and so I might either learn from it or have an appropriate response to it. I’m not averse to debating a subject with someone who differs from me. That’s one of the best ways I know to expose a subject to you so you can make up your own mind. To say nothing about how valuable it is for me to either be able to confidently defend my position, or to learn something new from someone who knows more than I.

One other note: I’m in the final phase of editing the third edition of my book Take Stock: A Roadmap to Profiting From Your First Walk Down Wall Street. It should be on the bookstands (we hope) by June 2009. Your blog comments might also give me some direction to help me wrap up the updating and editing.

An Overview of “Our Kind of Investing”

• Introduction to Successful Investing - Peter Lynch’s comment, from the first page of his excellent book, One Up on Wall Street, probably did more to inspire me…more

Investing: How Simple Can it Be?

• Investing: How Simple Can it Be? Part 1 - George Nicholson and the other founders of the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC) gave the world a priceless legacy…more
• Investing: How Simple Can it Be? Part 2 – To be a success, an investor doesn’t need to understand the nuances of debt management to see that the company has a long and steady track record…more
• Investing: How Simple Can it Be? Part 3 – To implement George Nicholson’s concepts, he gave us the Stock Selection Guide (SSG)…more
• Six Really Simple Steps to Buying A Quality Company – To demonstrate how truly simple and speedy the process can be, I’ve posted the six steps I might take to select, purchase, and manage the stocks in my portfolio….more

Understanding Money: What Makes Investing Work?

• Making Money, Part 1: What does it really mean? – For years, we’ve referred to the practice of our livelihoods as “making money.” But in many cases, this is rather remote from the fact….more
• Making Money, Part 2: It Started with Barter – The origin of money goes back, of course, to the concept of barter….more
• Making Money, Part 3: Why is Our Healthy Economy Vulnerable? – The most significant factor that contributes to the erosion of our economy is ignorance….more

Some Basic Terms

• The Only Ten Terms You Need to Know – Let’s dispel the myth that investing is too intellectually demanding for the normal person to understand….more

• The Growth Cycle - The “growth cycle” is an explanation of the “engine” behind the process by which good quality companies can grow in value….more

• What’s a P/E, and What’s it to Me? Part 1 – The ratio of a stock’s price to its company’s earnings is so vital that most major newspapers allocate precious space…more
• What’s a P/E, and What’s it to Me? Part 2 – What makes the P/E the most useful way to express the price of a stock?…more
• What’s a P/E and What’s it to Me? Part 3 – With two other bits of information, we can learn more from the P/E, specifically, the signature P/E and the earnings growth rate….more
• Rational Value: Your Key to Contentment – How to be confident of your portfolio’s real value….more

Random Rants and Ramblings

• What’s Wrong with the Stock Market? – The problem with the stock market started back before the end of the 18th century—in 1792 as a matter of fact….more

• Take $tock: Why Another Stock Analysis Tool? – This (long) article traces the history and development of Take $tock, the best stock analysis product for the new investor…more