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Its not just all a big joke. But most of the time, most of the time losing money month after month after month or year after year isnt a good way to make money over the longterm horizon. But a lot of them dont transfer into longterm gains if you wait long enough like so many people think they do. Yes, money making over the long haul is the ultimate goal in this game. But its also become the ultimate excuse for shortterm losses, for shortterm thinking. And believe me, that kind of thinking will only make you a worse investor. Before i can teach you how to invest for the longterm, ive got to dis...

For business tycoons, tom perkins would be a firstballot shooin. He has earned a fortune, and, boy, does he know how to spend it. [ engine revs, tires screech ] the troubles at hewlettpackard started when thenc. E. O. Carly fiorina was abruptly fired. Out the door. Is that really it was that cold . Thats exactly what happened. Devastated . You had to have been. Of course i was devastated. I was hurt. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. In this edition, we examine the boardroom intrigue at hewlettpackard between 2005 and 2007. It was a tumultuous saga that led to criminal charges, e...

The New York Stock Exchange was the center of the financial world. But today most trading in stocks is done elsewhere by Robot Computers that buy and sell in microseconds, faster than you can blink an eye. And the computers have done so well that some institutional traders have come to believe that the game is rigged. Are humans ever involved in the trading . Humans are not involved in the trading because humans are way too slow. [ticking] there are close to 850,000 of them in the United States, twice the number of atms. The new slot machines, the Main Attraction at casinos, are like hightech ...

Nasdaq climbing after a week of playing teeter totter between the bulls and bears. We got to ask, are we done going up . Maybe not but i think the market likes leadership and right now, its gotten very hard to find new leaders. Lets get right to it. Start with tech. You search through the once huge group of the s p 500, you know with the white flag that went out this morning by blackberry and the endless decline in dell sales symbolizing pcs, you simply dont have that much to cheer about. Save one small section of tech, which is telecom spending. They badly need to upgrade, tmobile, sprint, at...

Rails. Maybe the bulls are too complacent. Actually not paying up enough. Byebye byebye byebye. For stocks. Thats how you have to feel after this session. Where the dow is averaging up 19 points and s p edging up 0. 9 higher and nasdaq edging 3. 4 . Underneath, theres astonishment. Astonishment about the prices companies are paying for each other. Not the index buyers for the market. But what private companies are paying for other companies. Lets start with tyson foods. Theyre buying hillshire brands, theyre fattening meats and even more fattening pies. They launched its own bid for pinnacle h...