The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission... was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't afford it.