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Michael Hooper is a freelance writer and value investor, whose first stock was Motorola in 1993. Over 30 years, his portfolio has evolved into a collection of consumer defensive stocks, railroads, Berkshire Hathaway and S&P 500. In 1997, he asked Warren Buffett about his view of tobacco stocks at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and got a prolific response from Buffett and Charlie Munger. Michael worked 20 years as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Kansas and Nebraska. Michael is a published author: The Wonderment Years: Odyssey of a Bohemian and A Painter in Paris, both on Amazon.
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