<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Investing</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/columns/investing/investing?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><description>Investing</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[It's Morning in Asia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10812-2004Jul24.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10812-2004Jul24.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Investing in Asia is not without its challenges. But it could be a dawning opportunity.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's What You Know And Whom You Trust]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25133-2004Jul3.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25133-2004Jul3.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Although investing is a subtle and complicated endeavor, everyone can benefit from a simple set of rules and principles. One of my favorite portfolio managers, Thomas K. Brown, chief executive of Second Curve Capital, a New York hedge fund that specializes in financial stocks, recently sent clients a little booklet called "My Ten Rules," guidelines for building "a long-term successful track record."]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think Globally]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7352-2004Jun26.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7352-2004Jun26.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  For American investors, one of the thorniest questions is how many foreign stocks to own. All investors are unilateralists at heart, biased toward the homeland, and most economists think that's a mistake.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bow to Lady Luck]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54099-2004Jun19.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54099-2004Jun19.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Heard the one about the monkey and the typewriter?]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Goes Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36216-2004Jun12.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36216-2004Jun12.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When inflation bumps up rates, some sectors are proven winners.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 Ways to Find His Keepers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A111-2004May29.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A111-2004May29.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While the average stock on the S&P 500 has lost value over the past five years, Littelfuse Inc. has doubled.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Boom Will Do In 2010]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47277-2004May22.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47277-2004May22.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Look for companies that should prosper, and hope that baby boomers provide a delightful kicker.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance Can Still Mean Bliss]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28723-2004May15.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28723-2004May15.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Whichever kind of investor you are, you should not base your decisions to buy or sell funds or stocks based on what the market as a whole is doing.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thornburg Built Stairway To Bond Heaven]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10156-2004May8.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10156-2004May8.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The company's REIT pays a whopping 10.1 percent dividend.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The REIT Stuff]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58561-2004May1.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58561-2004May1.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Rising interest rates have meant falling stock prices for real estate investment trusts, or REITs (pronounced "reetz"), which are companies that own portfolios of property or, in a few cases, mortgages.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dow Jones Fountain of Youth?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38698-2004Apr24.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38698-2004Apr24.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Being a wise and patient stock market guru may be the best route to a long life.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dow Wow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19478-2004Apr17.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19478-2004Apr17.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After a year in which every stock market in the world has risen handsomely, real estate has gone through the roof, and bonds and commodities have soared as well, the witty and bearish Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, has titled his spring conference, "What's Left to Go Up?"]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exchange-Traded Finds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1043-2004Apr10.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1043-2004Apr10.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The mutual fund is the most successful investment vehicle the world has ever seen. But it has its drawbacks.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear Factor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46995-2004Apr3.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46995-2004Apr3.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A terror attack may come, but that doesn't mean that a stock market crash will result.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin-Based Investing Pays Dividends]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28783-2004Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28783-2004Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vice Fund, which specializes in buying "habit-forming" products, returned 34 percent last year.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hi-Yo Silver?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10105-2004Mar20.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10105-2004Mar20.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of my heroes is the late Julian Simon, the University of Maryland economist who  challenged the conventional wisdom that the world was getting overpopulated and would soon run out of food and other critical resources.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bet on America]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55045-2004Mar13.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55045-2004Mar13.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This week marked an anniversary most investors would rather forget. On March 10, 2000, the Nasdaq composite index hit a high of 5049. The high for the benchmark Standard &#38; Poor's 500-stock index came two weeks later at 1527. Despite strong rallies last year, the Nasdaq is 61 percent off its high; the S&#38;P, 27 percent.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dividends More Dandy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36992-2004Mar6.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36992-2004Mar6.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Congress cut the tax rate on dividends to 15 percent last year, American investors got a bigger boost than most of them seem to realize.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balancing Bayou-Style]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14278-2004Feb28.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14278-2004Feb28.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Over the past 10 years, Villere's stocks have returned an annual average of 16.4 percent.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dinner and Tips]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59606-2004Feb21.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59606-2004Feb21.html?nav=rss_business/columns/investing/investing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A merciful sort, Whitney Tilson suggests we have our dinner at a modest place called Hanratty's, way uptown on Madison Avenue. "It's inexpensive," he says. This is good since I am paying. Against all odds, I lost the bet.]]></description><author> James K. Glassman</author></item></channel></rss>