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Buy and Hold Is Alive and Well

I invested in each of 5 mutual funds in 1986 and have held them ever since. I tested your hypothesis and found:
Acorn Fund 1010% increase
Evergreen 480% (split into 2 funds in 90's)
Partners Fund 490%
Nicholas Fund 360%
Valley Forge 280%
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528% average increase

Could I have done better by buying and selling? Perhaps, but it was nice to know that while I was playing with stocks on my own, these funds have continued to steadily increase (although obviously down considerably over what they would have been last year at this time.)

Looking to Buy BRIC? The 'ABC's Are Better (Part I)

I wonder if the same type article will be written about the good old USA after 8 years of nationalization of our companies.

Corn and Its Industry: The Next Tobacco

I agree with the comment about fertilizer. The author seems so obsessed with the evils of corn that he lumps all food production with it. I have not seen any reports about people deciding to eat less food in the future. The media seems instead to be full of reports of people going hungry.