A great article from SmartMoney featuring Irving Kahn, Walter Schloss and SETH Glickenhaus. All of them are above 90, and experienced the depression in 1930.
IRVING KAHN SITS AT HIS CLUTTERED DESK, PEERING AT his computer screen through thick, dark glasses. The Dow inched up 38 points today, a small move in light of its 332-point drop earlier in the week. But Kahn has made a career of betting on beaten-down stocks, and he’s hard at work poring over annual reports and studying balance sheets looking for companies that have lots of cash, not much debt and good long-term growth prospects. General Electric has a solid business and looks pretty good at these prices, he muses. General Motors? Not so much.
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IRVING KAHN SITS AT HIS CLUTTERED DESK, PEERING AT his computer screen through thick, dark glasses. The Dow inched up 38 points today, a small move in light of its 332-point drop earlier in the week. But Kahn has made a career of betting on beaten-down stocks, and he’s hard at work poring over annual reports and studying balance sheets looking for companies that have lots of cash, not much debt and good long-term growth prospects. General Electric has a solid business and looks pretty good at these prices, he muses. General Motors? Not so much.
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