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Over the last 70 years, value stocks clocked a 13.4% average annual return, vs. 10.2% for growth stocks, according to Ibbotson Associates.

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$650,100 is what Guy Spier and Mohnish Pabrai forked out for the privilege of dining with Warren Buffett on June 25. Guy Spier , CEO of Aquamarine Capital Management talks about his lunch with Warren Buffett.

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Since the inception of the Fairholme Fund (FAIRX), right at the end of 1999, the fund has returned a cumulative 240%, through June 30, 2008.  On an annualized basis,  those are returns of 15.5% per year. The principal manager of the Fairholme Fund is Bruce Berkowitz. 

Berkowitz likes to talk about how Fairholme tries to turn every business into the “corner grocery store.”  I find it a simple, and useful, mental exercise to go through when analyzing the free cash flow of my companies.

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Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report interviews James Grant, Editor of "Grant's Interest Rate Observer". Grant says "The consumer is hard-pressed, Paul. He and she have been about the worst short sale in the history of finance. American consumers have spent through thick and through thin, especially it seems thin. These days they are very over extended and I expect them to do much less spending and much more savings. "

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