Something I find exciting is, for lack of a better word, stock market history, how great investors made an lost fortunes and how investors' perceptions change in different market environments.
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For example, last week I covered a highly critical article on Henry Singleton, which was published in Business Week magazine in May 1982. The article seemed to suggest Singleton had lost his magic touch and his common stock investments, which were made with cash from Teledyne's insurance business, were a slow-motion car crash in action.
"Now many of Teledyne's investments look weak. One of them -- 16% of ill-starred International Harvester Co., purchased mainly during the...

