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Strategies & Market Trends : Due Diligence - How to Investigate a Stock
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To: Mary Baker who wrote (480)5/25/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Henry Volquardsen  Read Replies (1) of 752
 
Mary, don't worry about ever sounding foolish, you don't. The people who sound foolish are the ones who don't know about these things but talk about them anyway.

Your comment I worry that I am supposed to be learning as I go...but paradoxically I become more confused! reminds me of one of my favorite teaching stories. I have had to train people at work from time to time. And they would often have the same concern, sometimes they would regress. I would then trot out an old article from Esquire about attaining mastery. The article used golf as an example but applied to any learning activity. They showed that progress for even the best students was never a straight line. In fact the top students would have periodic and regular regressions. But invaribly the regressions would come right before a period of renewed progress. The theory developed that as the subconcious tried to integrate the new learning the concious mind would become clumsy for awhile with things that it had previously mastered. So when ever a trainee would start getting frustrated and forgetful I would congratulate them because they were about to make a new spurt of progress. Now I don't know if this theory is correct or just new age poppy cock but it always worked wonders on the trainees and got them remotivated :)

BTW as far as reducing debt as Zeev pointed out in can be from a number of factors. They could be replacing it with cheaper debt, much the way you or I might refinance a high rate mortgage. Or they could simply have accumulated cash and decided to reduce the debt load. My suspicion is the former.

Henry

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