Warren Buffett's teacher and the father of value investing would probably not recommend this stock to buy. If you had bought it when it first listed that would be a different story but it's really dangerous to buy now.
Another recommended read:
Common stocks & uncommon profit - philip fisher
This is the father of growth investing
"The blow against the United States was meant to put an end to the internal rivalries, which are manifest in vitriolic memos between Kabul and cells abroad. Al-Qaeda's leaders worried about a military response from the United States, but in such a response they spied opportunity: they had fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and they fondly remembered that war as a galvanizing experience, an event that roused the indifferent of the Arab world to fight and win against a technologically superior Western infidel. The jihadis expected the United States, like the Soviet Union, to be a clumsy opponent. Afghanistan would again become a slowly filling graveyard for the imperial ambitions of a superpower."
"As Arab resentment against the United States spreads, al-Qaeda may look less like a tightly knit terror group and more like a mass movement. And as the group develops synergy in working with other groups branded by the United States as enemies (in Iraq, the Israeli-occupied territories, Kashmir, the Mindanao Peninsula, and Chechnya, to name a few places), one wonders if the United States is indeed playing the role written for it on the computer. "
That is a nerve-racking observation made and I hope there is someone in DC to combat this strategy. Afghanistan and Iraq haven't been graveyards to the extent of the casualties suffered by russia, but one wonders if that is to come? I surely hope not.
Benjamin Graham w/commentary from Jason Zweig -
The Intelligent Investor
http://www.jasonzweig.com/
Warren Buffett's teacher and the father of value investing would probably not recommend this stock to buy. If you had bought it when it first listed that would be a different story but it's really dangerous to buy now.
Another recommended read:
Common stocks & uncommon profit - philip fisher
This is the father of growth investing
"The blow against the United States was meant to put an end to the internal rivalries, which are manifest in vitriolic memos between Kabul and cells abroad. Al-Qaeda's leaders worried about a military response from the United States, but in such a response they spied opportunity: they had fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and they fondly remembered that war as a galvanizing experience, an event that roused the indifferent of the Arab world to fight and win against a technologically superior Western infidel. The jihadis expected the United States, like the Soviet Union, to be a clumsy opponent. Afghanistan would again become a slowly filling graveyard for the imperial ambitions of a superpower."
"As Arab resentment against the United States spreads, al-Qaeda may look less like a tightly knit terror group and more like a mass movement. And as the group develops synergy in working with other groups branded by the United States as enemies (in Iraq, the Israeli-occupied territories, Kashmir, the Mindanao Peninsula, and Chechnya, to name a few places), one wonders if the United States is indeed playing the role written for it on the computer. "
That is a nerve-racking observation made and I hope there is someone in DC to combat this strategy. Afghanistan and Iraq haven't been graveyards to the extent of the casualties suffered by russia, but one wonders if that is to come? I surely hope not.