While the founder of The Prudent Speculator, Al Frank, recently passed away, Buckingham has been the director of research since 1990, picking stocks, writing the bulk of the letter and managing the Al Frank Fund, with over $77 million under management.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time," Stock wrote.
Chile's ex-president (and the father of its present one), Eduardo Frei, thinking of these and the alleged weapons stocks, wrote, after the Pinochet coup, of "the creation of a parallel army".
Richard Bove, a high-profile securities analyst who focuses on bank stocks, wrote a commentary that excoriated Wells Fargo for lousy service — so much so that he announced he'd moved his business to a different bank.
"Everyone who cares about the free-flow of information, about democracy in China, in fact about democracy anywhere, should start selling their Google stock," writes novelist, screenwriter, and blogger Roger L. Simon.
"In a moment of excitement, a brilliant woman became a stupid laughing stock," wrote one user of social media service Weibo, while another described her as a "deranged Taiwan independence supporter".
"We do our best to ignore the volatility in our stock," wrote Reed Hastings in a letter to investors in October 2013, in which he gently reminded them that market value and the health of the business were two separate things.
Those favoring the stock write that recent research-and-development efforts could start to benefit the firm.
Bears on the stock write that Sears and Macy's make up about 25% of Simon's leased square footage.
Bulls on the stock write that WellPoint is the best-known and most trusted brand name in the business.
