By Marc Lichtenfeld You always remember your first…
I’m talking about investments, of course. What did you think I was referring to?
I bought my first stock in 1990. It was Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG). I bought 50 shares at $12. Three months later, I sold it at $18. Stock trading commissions were $49 per trade, so I made a cool $202.
A few years later, my wife worked at a household-name consumer goods company. The company was doing okay, but it had some upcoming initiatives I thought would work well.
The company was privately owned, so there were no shares to buy. I discovered that it had …read more
