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I started life at 20

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I started life at 20

The Safest Stocks in the World

By Dan Ferris | 10/26/2010

The safest stocks in the world right now have three important traits.

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The Ultimate Formula

By Noah St. John | 10/25/2010

Customers are the lifeblood of your business. Without customers — people who buy your product or service — you really don’t have a business, do you? Duh!

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China Wholesale Trader

By Early To Rise | 10/22/2010

Early to Riser Raymond A. writes in with two questions we often get about our China Wholesale Trader program. So I thought we’d kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and answer them here.

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How to Make More in the Next 10 Years Than You Made in the Last 20

By Patrick Cox | 10/21/2010

How rich did investors get from the last 20 years of computer advances?
The fortunes that have piled up almost boggle the mind. Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Cisco, and IBM — the list of fortune-making computer firms goes on and on.

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How the Future Is Already Making Fortunes

By Patrick Cox | 10/20/2010

I bet you’ve heard “You can’t change your genetics” dozens of times.
People think there’s a master code written for them before they’re born, and they must live with it no matter what.

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How to Grow (Very) Rich in Tough Economic Times

By Clayton Makepeace | 10/18/2010

Let’s say you own a business and you’re trying to decide what kinds of products you should be developing.

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Real Zero-Down Real Estate

By Mark Morgan Ford | 10/16/2010

Can you really make a fortune in real estate without using cash?

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The Greatest Short Opportunity in the World Today

By Christian Hill | 10/14/2010

Not since the dot-com era has so much hoopla surrounded a company going public with such a questionable business model.
But that’s not for us to worry about. Instead, we can profit from it.

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The Language Perfectionist: This Column May Make You “Tense”

By Early To Rise | 10/14/2010

Do you notice anything unusual about the following account, quoted from a major newspaper’s reader blog?

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Controlling Your Emotions During Tough Markets

By John Nyaradi | 10/13/2010

All year, investors have been fleeing the stock market for the perceived safety of the bond market, letting fear take control of their investing and financial future. But if you can learn to control your emotions, today’s equity markets offer enormous opportunity.

Your biggest enemy for successful trading is not the “market,” other traders or investors, the economy, or any outside force. You face your biggest danger in the mirror every morning, because your biggest danger is you — your emotions and the human frailties that can easily lead to your financial ruin.

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An Old Hymn, Jazz, and the Key to Copywriting

By Glenn Fisher | 10/12/2010

An old Christian hymn might seem the last thing that could help you become a master copywriter.

But you’d be surprised…

Do you know the hymn “Morning Has Broken”? (Cat Stevens did a version of it in the 70s.)

Well, that was the first tune I ever learned to play on the bass guitar. And to this day, I can still remember how to do it.

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It’s Not in My Job Description!

By Robert Ringer | 10/11/2010

Whenever I speak at a conference, I arrange with my publisher to have copies of my latest book available for attendees to buy.

Usually, it’s no problem. I show up at the event and the books are there.

This time, however, he delegated the job to “Ms. Uptite,” his in-house PR person. Having already had one too many experiences with Ms. Uptite’s attitude, I was a bit apprehensive about her handling the matter, but my publisher felt confident that everything would be fine.

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