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Experts tell us that a small number of carefully selected stocks – fewer than twenty – would nearly mimic the S&P 500 in terms of diversification and performance. That means you could buy just those stocks and never have to pay a fee for fund management. Avoiding fees is a…

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Foolish Investing

Some folks from The Motley Fool interviewed me recently. You can see their article, along with my generic investment advice here, which I first published several years ago: http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/10/23/9-things-you-should-do-instead-of-buying-stocks.aspx The power of the nine items is that they are in the order in which you should do them. That doesn’t…

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The Upcoming Riots

I plan to start hoarding supplies soon. There should be some big riots after the election. Here’s a sequence of events and conditions that would lead to rioting. Do you see anything on the list that isn’t likely? We know the country can get past one suspicious Presidential election, because…

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Cartoonist Tools

In a few weeks, my 20th anniversary Dilbert book comes out, titled Dilbert 2.0. I’ll tell you more about that later. As part of the promotion for the book, I made a video of how I draw Dilbert on my computer and posted it on Amazon.com. Check it out. http://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-2-0-20-Years/dp/0740777351 The…

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Predatory Lenders

I watched the candidates for Vice President debating last night. Sarah Palin said the credit problem was caused by predatory lending. In other words, the evil banks made loans to people who didn’t have good credit. This raises an interesting question: What did the lenders know about the borrowers that…

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