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Barron's Roundtable Discussion: An Exciting Time to Pick Stocks

Exactly right! They say nothing at all, but in a very complicated and (to an untrained reader) smart-sounding way! What about them, other than their carefully-crafted reputations, does the author "respect?"

Beware anyone who follows their "advice." They are talking their books and usually wrong to boot. If their picks work at all, it is usually just a short term bounce as impressionable readers stampede into their ideas.

Meryl is the notable exception. You could usually make a lot of money following her picks. Why? Because unlike most of the others, she is a bottom-up stock picker who utilizes extensive and well-thought-out research in making her picks. The rest of them mainly spout top-down mumbo-jumbo, or, in the case of AJC, just repeat the picks of their analysts.