Tuesday Trivia: When was the first Moody's Manual written?

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#1

Without looking it up, when did John Moody write his first Moody’s Manual?

#2

1900

#3

Good guess.

#4

I don’t want to look it up, but I remember Buffett saying that part of his first job was flipping through the Moody’s manual by hand, to find net-nets when he worked for Ben Graham, so it’s been around since, let’s see…like at least 1950. Tack on another 30 years, let’s say, and I’ll call it 1920.