Our Philosophy

Stocks represent, in the first and last analysis, a business. Buffett took this fundamental premise and greatly increased its effectiveness by treating all businesses, whether privately- or publicly-held, the same. All businesses are evaluated as if there is no other market; there is simply a buyer and a seller in a private transaction. If you were to purchase the Dry Cleaners around the corner, what would you pay for the entire business? If you don't know how to place a total purchase price on that business, how do you know whether you are being asked to pay far too much for a given stock?

Through the mechanism of CapitalistCurriculum.com, J.L. Eaton brings the aspiring mini-capitalist a coherent, multi-tiered approach to the fundamental precepts that underlay economics, finance, income tax, and advanced investment strategies.  Mr. Eaton brings to bear a unique blend of undergraduate Business Law teaching experience, more than 15 years of real estate and securities investment experience, and both broad and deep study of finance and economics, as they relate to investments.  Following the award of a Juris Doctor (law) degree with honors, Mr Eaton served as a Business Law lecturer at the University of Maryland.  Among the topics covered in his Business Law  courses were: Debt Obligations, Business Bankruptcy, Law of Sales, Contracts, Business Entity Structure, Income Taxes, and fundamental precepts that underlay Banking and Securities laws. 

Additionally, all prior teaching experience and a formal commercial law education served as a mere introductory prelude to what became an intensive, five-year self-study program that integrated the pre-existing business and law foundation with the most important elements of economics and finance.  The subsequent combined education can best be described as a comprehensive financial approach that emulates the approach taken by capitalists (but in so doing, it rejects the Wall Street approach).  Specifically, an unbroken line of successful capitalism runs from the original writings of Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations to the most successful capitalist of them all, Warren E. Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.   Buffett is not alone, however.  Such modern capitalists as  T. Boone Pickens, Michael Dell, and slightly more remote individuals such as J. Paul Getty of Standard Oil are called upon, as well.

Through organized lessons for enrolled students, Mr Eaton introduces fundamental financial, economic, legal, and income tax concepts in a graduated series of seminars.  All seminars, from the most fundamental, to the most advanced, are aimed at the singular goal of fully preparing students to comprehend critical, but all-too-often misunderstood information about capital markets, true investments, and long-term wealth-building.