• Thought of the Day

    Thought of the Day

    2000: Precisely because the old-time investor did not concentrate on future capital appreciation he was virtually guaranteeing to himself that he would have it….conversely, today's investor is so concerned with anticipating the future that he is already paying handsomely for it in advance. Thus what he has projected with so much study and care may actually happen and still not bring him any profit.

    –Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor (New York: HarperBusiness, 2003), p. 572.

Today in Financial History

1787: John Fitch launches the first successful steamboat run in U.S. waters when his 45-foot boat smokes and booms up the Delaware River as delegates from the Constitutional Convention watch from shore. But he never gets costs under control, so Robert Fulton — whose own steamboat launch came 20 years later — is instead remembered as the father of the steamboat.