INTELLIGENT INVESTMENT TODAY, a Shortcast "mini-podcast" series each around ten minutes, focusing on the teachings of the father of the craft, Benjamin Graham, teacher and mentor to the most successful investor of all time Warren Buffett. As well as covering all the important concepts laid down by Graham we put them into practice through examination of current real life value opportunities. Designed for the complete novice without any experience in the stock market as well as the more experi ...
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A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
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Pure, silly, improv. Kyran Wheatley and his celebrity guest see just how badly they go attempting a quiz - with the trusty assistance of the assembled brains trust (the best improv comedians in Melbourne/The World deep, deep in character). If you like impro, this is some of Australia's best. All eps recorded at Comedy Republic in the heart of Melbourne, Australia - tickets are available here. Or at festivals around the world. Join the brains trust as an Acast Plus subscriber to get free entr ...
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Birds in Winter With David Sibley – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – Nov. 11, 2024
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When cold weather approaches, we humans often have it easy: We can retreat to the shelter of central heating, or pile on more layers of clothing. The path to survival is a lot more complicated for birds, of course, and a new... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 4, 2024 – George Coombs on Trees for the Future
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In the face of shifting weather patterns influenced by a changing climate, the garden can be a really confusing place these days. What stressors are coming next, and which plants will have the resilience required to stand up to whatever... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Flora & Frost on Solving Garden Mysteries – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 28, 2024
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The garden is my favorite escape from stress, of course, but as I have confessed before on the podcast, I sometimes succumb to the lure of swiping my way through Instagram during non-garden hours, like so many millions of us... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Short Selling - A Fools Errand or A Legitimate Value Investment Strategy?
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In this episode we consider the different ways by which short selling, or the attempt to profit from falling stock prices can be undertaken and whether short selling should ever be part of a value investment strategy.Por David Coombs
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Sara Weaner on Lawn Transformation – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 21, 2024
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Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transitioning the front lawn organically from mown grass into a meadow. Sara’s here to tell us about... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Joan Strassmann on a Birding Journal – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oc. 14, 2024
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It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Birding” was released. Now, as then, I’ve seen what are pretty much my... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Tim Johnson on Native Seeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 7, 2024
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When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its region’s most imperiled native plants in a seed... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Is It Time To Invest In The UK Stock Market?
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In this episode we take a look at the factors that have depressed the UK stock market over the last decade or so and consider if now might be the time for a rethink on the prospects for UK PLC.Por David Coombs
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Daniel Weitoish on Managing Invasives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 30, 2024
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Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pretty much everywhere I drive is one of hedgerows formed of a tangle of non-native shrubs and vines.... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Preston Montague on Ecological Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 23, 2024
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If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Benjamin Graham - Value Investment's Founding Father - A Brief Biography
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In today's episode we consider the life and times of Benjamin Graham, the founding father of value investment and teacher and mentor to some of the stock market's most successful practitioners, including of course Warren Buffett.Por David Coombs
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Jared Rosenbaum on Native Plant Stories – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 16, 2024
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“Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth you live on, you can look to plants to interpret that story.” With his... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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The Efficient Markets Hypothesis - Does it Actually Work?
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In this episode we examine the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, the theory that suggests that all the people in the market buying and selling stock based on the latest news and data means that at all times stocks trade at the price they deserve to.Por David Coombs
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– Real Organic Project on Soil-Supporting Advice – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 9, 2024
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Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert advice for doing that, and also learn why our diligent soil-consciousness matters so much,... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Market Volatility - The Value Investor's Best Friend
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A look at how periods of market turbulence can affect the mindset of the average investor and why Value Investors should embrace times of market volatility.Por David Coombs
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Ken Druse on Bulb Shopping and Dividing – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 26, 2024
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Have you done your bulb shopping yet? It’s ordering time—both for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you can only buy now if you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spring-into-summer blooming species. Ken Druse and I both have... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Matt Mattus on Holiday Cactus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024
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I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. Even though it was still high summer, it made me long for... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Today's Podcast discusses recent market turmoil and considers if we should really be listening to what the economists are saying at all?Por David Coombs
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Daniel Weitoish on Extreme Weather – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 12, 2024
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I suspect I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my own garden—wondering what will bloom when, and when to do... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Carly Still on Medieval Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 5, 2024
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When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the parsley, the dill and such. ... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Warren Buffett - Still a Value Investor?
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In this episode we consider if Warren Buffett can still be described as a value investor, and if not what type of investor is he today?Por David Coombs
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Ken Druse on Hydrangea Time – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 29, 2024
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It’s Hydrangea season, and in the Northeast, in particular, this summer, it’s REALLY been a crazy hydrangea season in 2024, with billows of blue bloom from big-leaf hydrangeas on view everywhere, it seems—which is not always the case, in colder... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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We discuss the importance of remaining aloof to the noise of the market.Por David Coombs
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Amy Stewart on “The Tree Collectors” – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 22, 2024
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We’re going to talk about collectibles today, but not the kind you score at a flea market or from an online auction. We’re going to talk about collectible trees. Yes, trees. A new book by Amy Stewart called “The Tree... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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In this episode we discuss the differing perspectives on the repurchase of a business's own stock between Buffett and his mentor.Por David Coombs
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Benjamin Vogt on Meadow Making – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 15, 2024
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Are you thinking about the possibility of transitioning an area of your lawn into something more diverse, like maybe a meadow? A question I’m asked a lot is how to go about it – the actual preparatory steps – so... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Lessons from the High Line – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 8, 2024
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It’s one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere, and yet it’s perched in the most unnatural spot imaginable, 30 feet high above New York City traffic on an abandoned elevated railway line. The High Line on Manhattan’s West Side is... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Hortus Arboretum’s Unusual Fruits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 1, 2024
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Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like goji berries or maybe Schisandra, are ones you’re more likely to see on ingredient labels of... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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GameStop - The Saga Continues - A Value Perspective
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We examine the GameStop saga from a value investment perspectivePor David Coombs
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Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024
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Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the occasional audit is a very positive process, and encourages us to perform one... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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In this episode we examine how I go about analysing a business using the principles of value investment.Por David Coombs
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Ken Druse on Garden Visiting – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 17, 2024
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What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully entertaining? By making time to go visit other people’s gardens, we can open ourselves up to... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Hardy Kern on Neonic Dangers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 10, 2024
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I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or neonics for short. In 2013 the American Bird Conservancy issued a report, warning of... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Neil Diboll on Prairie Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024
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Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the original plants of an area—and even in certain specialty corners of the nursery industry they... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Investing In What You Know Best (Is it always a good idea?)
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Benjamin Graham's thoughts on investing in businesses that you have a close personal attachment too, either as a customer, an employee or a friend of the CEO.Por David Coombs
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Basil Camu on Supporting Trees – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 27, 2024
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Most people call in an arborist when they think it’s time for a tree to be removed—a costly process both financially and environmentally, since trees are critical drivers of diversity. Today’s guest runs a tree-care company and also a tree-focused... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Apiary Studio on Regenerative Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 20, 2024
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Landscape design may be part of the green industry, but sometimes rethinking a garden space, or creating a garden where there didn’t used to be one, can create a lot of very un-green waste material—especially true when you’re designing in... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Peter Zale on Native Orchids – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 13, 2024
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Today’s topic is orchids, but not the ones you might be growing as a flowering houseplant. Our subject is native terrestrial types that are more often than not under great pressure in the wild, their numbers dwindling. Now, thanks to... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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What Benjamin Graham has to say on the diversification of your portfolio.Por David Coombs
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Philadelphia Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 6, 2024
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The area around Philadelphia is well-known for its richness of public gardens, including many historic ones, but the region is also home to an impressive roster of distinctive private landscapes—from formal 19th century European-style estates to mid-century modern residences and contemporary... Read More ›…
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An introduction into Benjamin Graham's idea of Margin of Safety.Por David Coombs
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Mary Phillips on Rethinking the Lawn – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 29, 2024
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You’ve probably heard the expression No Mow May in recent years, a campaign borrowed from an effort in the UK meant to increase diversity by leaving lawns unmown for the one spring month, but is that the answer for US... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Stephen Procter on Ceramic Garden Art – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 22, 2024
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It’s that time of year when we gardeners are shopping, shopping, shopping, often in hot pursuit of just the right plant that will make the design of a bed or the larger landscape hang together—that elusive missing ingredient. But what... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Hilton Carter on Propagating Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 15, 2024
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I for one have a number of houseplants that would look a whole lot better right now if given a pinch or two or three, plus I could potentially enjoy the benefit of more plants from those trimmings, whether to... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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The Importance of Acting Like An Owner
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Today's episode examines the principle of acting like the owner of businesses in which you hold stocks. Too many investors rely on the market to value the businesses in which they own stock, thinking like an owner frees you from this trap leaving you better prepared to deal with market turbulence.Por David Coombs
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Japanese Maples at Mr Maple – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 8, 2024
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I confess to something of a weakness for Japanese maples, and I suspect I’m not alone. Now, thanks to breeding work by experts like today’s guests, there are more and more varieties being made available that are suited to a... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Madeline Hooper on Staying ‘GardenFit’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 1, 2024
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You know how it goes, especially in those tempting first spring-like days: You’re barely out of bed before you’re out in the garden having at it. And then, by day’s end, your body’s screaming that maybe, just maybe, you overdid... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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David Mattern on Container Design – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 25, 2024
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Wait! Before you find yourself at the garden center grabbing up every irresistible thing that calls out to you, figuring you can somehow find a role for it in this season’s container designs, think again: What’s your plan for this year’s seasonal... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Tim Johnson on Bio-Productive Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 18, 2024
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In a recent phone call, today’s guest, Tim Johnson, used the phrase “bio-productive gardens,” and it stopped me. What does he mean by that, I thought? And then he explained: There are ways to manage our landscapes, he said, so... Read More ›Por Margaret Roach
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Investment Vs Speculation - An Important Distinction
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This episode focuses on a core principle of Benjamin Graham's teachings, the difference between Investment and speculation. While this might be understood in general terms by all, investors can fall into the trap of entering into speculative situations when they believe that they are investing. This episode gives investors the tools required not to…
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