I genuinely enjoy following Barron’s Roundtable every year (see “Shifting Winds”).  The venerable old rag puts together a team of 10 outspoken money managers and allows them to do the journalistic equivalent of a cage fight.  The participants are free to grill each other over their recommendations, and it can get pretty intense.  Some years,...Read More

Last week, I wrote about the Barron’s Roundtable, commenting that its members rarely agree on anything.  I want to point out again that this is precisely why I enjoy reading the Roundtable comments every year.  Right or wrong, its members are anything if not independent, and this is what makes them valuable. In the second...Read More