Being a Foolish Four offspring, there's nothing we need do about its earnings or those of General Motors. If we swapped today, we'd be buying International Paper, Philip Morris, Exxon, and keeping General Motors. The Fool covered the earnings and conference call completely . The stock trades at 33 times trailing earnings. But I'm very glad the investment was so successful to have become such a large portion of the portfolio.
Concern leads to uneasiness and frustration, and that can lead to unfounded criticism of others.
This was written by Benjamin Disraeli, who achieved great progress in making England's politics accountable in the 1800s. His statement explains why so many in the media, especially, are critical. Writing on a regular basis, it's incredibly easy to draw on daily stresses or worries and write continually critical columns. Certain Barron's writers have very little to write if they're not criticizing. That publication and The Wall Street Journal have often shown tremendous ineptitude in covering the stories of Iomega and America Online, for example.