How Unicorns Helped Me Beat the Market

My family bought our first computer in the early 90s. I just played games on it because the internet didn’t really exist yet. It was around this time Marc Andreessen was coding the first Web browser which became Netscape Navigator. Then the internet took off and Microsoft released Internet Explorer to compete against Navigator.

Microsoft eventually won, and Andreessen left to form a venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley. With his buddy Ben Horowitz they started investing in startups. Because...

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Interview with Tom Engle: Investing Legend

You might not have heard of Tom Engle. He was born poor in Louisville, Kentucky, where his family shared a two-bedroom house with his grandparents.

He watched his parents quickly climb out of poverty by investing, and learned at a young age to invest what money he could, and most importantly, to keep it invested. This mindset changed his life forever – after working just nine years at a gas station he was able to retire.

Tom’s now been an investor for over 40 years, and a legend in the Motley Fool Stock Advisor investment community. By...

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Warren Buffett’s Free Investing Advice for YOU

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” –Warren Buffett

That quote is simply amazing because it highlights how ass backwards Wall Street actually is. Buffett is one smart dude, and as an investor it’s those bits of wisdom I always look forward to in the annual letter he pens to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

The good news is that even if...

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Why Wall Street Lies and How You Can Defend Yourself

The job of a financial analyst is simple: They write reports and issue an investment recommendation to either buy, sell, or hold a stock. To me, that sounds like an exciting job that would pay an honest wage. Unfortunately, a guy by the name of Henry Blodget was exposed for all that is not-so-exciting and dishonest about this trade.

Blodget rose to fame during the dot-com years when he predicted the share price of Amazon, a...

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A System for Automating Your Personal Finances

Are you one of the people that get a paper paycheck, even though your employer offers direct deposit? Or maybe you get bills sent to you in the mail requiring you to keep track of due dates, write a check out, dig through the junk drawer to find a stamp, and then drop the payment in the outgoing mail, even though you could be receiving paperless statements and automatic bill payment?

In the past, and we’re talking the 1990’s, most of us were wasting hours of our lives handling our personal...

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