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The Great Credit Shrinkage
by Timothy Lutts I originally wrote about the great credit shrinkage in December 2008, and it still seems sensible. In the four years since the financial crisis of the time, individual and corporations...
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Cabot Heritage Corporation
From one perspective, the Cabot Heritage history is one of business. To begin, you could start with Henry Lovewell Lutts, born in Kittery, Maine in 1849. He was a self-employed housebuilder by trade,...
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My Warning on Apple
by Timothy Lutts This was published on April 19, 2012, titled “What I Really Think About Investing in Apple”. Back then, the stock was trading around 590, on its way, as we all know now, to 700. But by...
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Bullish on Tesla
by Timothy Lutts This was published on February 13, 2012, back when TSLA was trading at 35. It was titled, “Romance, Transition and Reality”. Moving on to a recommended investment, I’ll start by saying...
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Tesla Cold Weather Test
by Timothy Lutts I woke up this morning to find an email from a very smart investing friend in my inbox, linking to a great video about a Tesla cold weather test, driving the Tesla Motors Model S in...
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Tesla Motors Hit by Lawsuit
by Timothy Lutts This is a picture of a Tesla Model S in flames, after it ran over some road debris near Seattle back on October 1, 2013. Since then, there have been two more Tesla fires. One was in...
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The Psychology of Investing
The Imp of the Perverse is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845, that explores the subconscious desires of people to do exactly what they should not. I read it in college, and have no...
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Don’t Blame the Home Appraisers
Remember back in mid-2007, when the housing bubble was peaking, and the first inklings of trouble surfaced in the sub-prime mortgage industry? Few observers at the time imagined how far prices would...
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The Great Chocolate Shortage
The world is running out of chocolate! That was the gist of the scary headlines last week, courtesy of writers who combined increased consumption in regions like China with fungus in Costa Rica and...
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TESLA vs TOYOTA
Some investment stories are simple, and some are complicated. On the simple side are companies like Zoe’s Kitchen (ZOES), a restaurant chain that serves healthy Mediterranean fare at reasonable prices....
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Twilio (TWLO)
What does Twilio do? Something dubbed “cloud communications.” It’s like cloud computing, but it involves connecting things like business telephones, cell phones and text messages and enabling people to...
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DOW 20,000
Lots of people are excited that the Dow hit 20,000 this week—but what does it really mean? Fundamentally, it means almost nothing: simply that the combined value of the 30 big companies tracked by the...
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