Making any investment

Rules I follow when making any investment This morning as I glanced at the headlines, I had to sit back and wonder– when did the world get so crazy? Interest rates across the West are at zero or negative . Bankrupt governments are selling 100-year bonds with tiny interest rates , while others have convinced investors to pay for the privilege of loaning them money. What really gets me is that people aren’t laughing. Serious investors are buying up the $10+ trillion worth of negative-yielding debt issued by bankrupt governments as fast as they can. After all, everyone else is doing it. From my investment mentors, I learned how to not be such an idiot… how to ignore the crowd and focus on the core fundamentals of a business. One of my value investing mentors explained to me, for instance, that if you’re going to invest in the stock market, you should buy a single share as if you’re buying the entire business. And he laid out six rules to follow when making any investment...