If you're lucky, stocks warn you of their dangers upfront.
Post-bubble, every armchair stock picker can spot the lingering danger in homebuilders. Like the packages containing its tobacco products, Altria virtually screams its litigation risks in a big, bold point size. And the 2009 bankruptcy of GM serves as an easy object lesson for what can go wrong in the globally cutthroat, capital-intensive car industry.
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