Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
August 30, 2016

Sinking food prices, while good for the consumer, is devastating for almost everyone else in the supply chain from the farmer all the way to the grocers.Farmers suffer as their key input cost, labor, is actually increasing in many states

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By SG Value Investor   What is the Greater Fool Theory?   The Greater Fool Theory is when the price of a good is not determined by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants. Essentially,

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Defensive Investors are defined as investors who are not able or willing to do substantial research into individual investments, and therefore need to select only the companies that present the least amount of risk. Enterprising Investors, on the other hand,

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I met Susan Briante at a poetry reading recently. It was her reading, from her book of poems The Market Wonders, in particular. I had a sense that I could learn quite a bit from talking with her. A poetry book

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Here’s how the Case Shiller Index (CSI) press release spun the data on the state of the US single family housing market today: The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a

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Circling the wagons is essentially what happened on Tuesday. First the very weak try at an early rally showed Monday to be a ‘one-day-wonder’ (that was a thought we had yesterday); not a big reversal of increasing sentiment ‘risk-off’ returning

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Bernanke’s mentor and Fed Vice-chair Stanley Fischer performed for the financial class as expected this morning, making hawkish sounds on interest rates. More specifically he cast doubt on the notion of a ‘one and done’ for interest rate increases this year.

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Disney (NYSE:DIS) has seen mixed results so far this year with the ESPN subscriber issue weighing on the company’s share price. On the other hand, Disney’s parks and studio segments have been returning impressive results. Stripping out the headlines, I

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Shares of Hershey (HSY) dropped in afternoon trading after Mondelez International (MDLZ) announced that it terminated merger talks with the confectioner. WHAT’S NEW: After the market close yesterday, Mondelez said that it ended discussions with Hershey regarding a potential combination

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The Kansas City real estate market continues to marinate in the first-half of 2016, much like the slow-smoked style barbecue it’s known for. Home prices and appreciation rates are on pace with the national average, home affordability remains dominant as ever, and an

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