Brett Arends writes ROI, or Return on Investment, offering analysis on what the latest news means for you and your money. Arends writes from a value-oriented and generally contrarian perspective. He has been writing about finance, in Europe and in the U.S., since the 1990s. Before that he worked as an analyst at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy.

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