Democracy Café

Robert G. Hagstrom is my kind of thinker and doer and questioner. He has a peerless and contagious intellectual honesty and integrity and openness, and he draws from and builds on the worldly wisdom of thinkers from across the ages and disciplines -- as you will see for yourself when you listen in to his wealth of insights on investing, living, learning, and the liberal arts. Senior Portfolio Manager for EquityCompass Strategies, an investment advisory subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corporation, Robert is a celebrated bestselling author of books including the New York Times best-selling 'The Warren Buffett Way' and 'The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy.' (I'm now diving into his 'The NASCAR Way: The Business That Drives the Sport' and 'The Detective and the Investor: Uncovering Investment Techniques from the Legendary Sleuths.' But the book that inspired me to reach out to him is his 'Investing: The Last Liberal Art.' Robert most graciously accepted my invite,