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We just released our latest round of bank safety ratings, using fresh figures from Q2 2017 filings. The good news? Our Weiss data shows widespread soundness and stability in the industry. But...
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Last week, Warren Buffett collected on a $1 million bet with Ted Seides, a hedge fund manager at Protégé Partners. In 2007, the famed investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway wagered that an...
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You’ve heard me talk about our Weiss Ratings Model plenty of times. But what is it really? How does it work? And most importantly, why should you care? That’s a lot of questions, and I’ll start...
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This has been a wild and wonderful couple of weeks for lithium miners. You own three of them, and they’re all blasting off so fast, North Korea’s missile program can only look on with envy. For...
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Hurricane Harvey recently hammered Texas, causing losses that could eventually total tens (or even hundreds) of billions of dollars. Now in Hurricane Irma’s wake, many are wondering about...
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have together caused billions of dollars in property damage, disrupted countless businesses, and tragically, cost dozens of lives. But as I wrote recently, the...
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The largest city in Texas has been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Hundreds of thousands of its citizens have been forced from their homes. Some have perished. The National Weather Service says...
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As the floodwaters recede from Hurricane Harvey, what’s left behind in Houston and the Texas coast is devastating in both scale and cost: Hundreds of thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, a...
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Last week, I wrote about Hurricane Harvey. I suggested investors could “do well by doing good” by investing in companies whose products will help fuel the rebuilding and recovery process in Texas...
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Devastating, and expensive, the damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey will fall mainly on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as I said last week. Catastrophe funding will also kick in for...
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