It’s True.  People hate the highly successful, highly productive, highly paid in society because those people are unexplainablely successful.

It is difficult to truely understand why a CEO should make 200 times the money that a common laborer should make.  And when people hear about how well CEOs and owners are paid they GET REAL PISSED OFF!

Those who labor continue to find out how badly shafted they get for their work and dedication.

That’s only because they do not know the process to PROFIT off the labor of others, some would equivocate profitting off the labor of others to slave ownership but it’s perfectly legal.

You too can benefit.

You too can profit off the labor of others.

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The week you’ll hear many arguments about U.S. manufacturing after the State of the Union Speech. Many Quarters of the Think Tanks have been spending time investigating U.S. competitiveness in infrastructure, engineering, manufacturing, and education. There’s an interesting reason so many leaders are suddenly focusing on these areas of the economy. Since the U.S. is no longer preoccupied with highgrowth low investment areas like financial services and pumping up prices on real estate, the focus of American Business necessarily shifts to the historically low growth, less sexy, and neglected areas like schools, high tech manufacturing, infrastructure. It’s the reason GE has shifted its focus towards the industrial business too.

One of the things that bother me is watching people get hurt because their stock picks didn’t work out. I know of at least two couples who stop talking or hurt their marriage just because the husband had invested most of their retirement and then the dotcom bubble came or the 2008 came. Independent people like small businessmen especially trust their own judgement and are willing to take risks, the problem is the market is a complex beast and can eat someone alive if their method and strategy is not well thought out. If every investor handled their money according to their level of competency a lot less people would have their relationships hurt by a downturn.

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What gets people in trouble when investing their own money or even pursuing money is usually their emotional involvement regarding their views of money, regarding their personal identity about whether they deserve money, fears about what money does to relationships and personal ambition.

Why do people make mistakes with money? It’s because for the most part our goals with money directly CONFLICTS with our understanding and feelings about money.
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As You’re probably aware Steve Jobs Retired from Apple and left a giant hole to fill as CEO in the greatest turn around story for any corporation in American History. Journalists and Investors alike look in amazement at what Apple was able to accomplish transforming Computing and Consumer Electronics and they can’t help but wonder how he did it. How do you identify the next Apple? Every Tech Investor ask themselves that question.

Well as is often the case for Investors looking for the Next Big Thing, they’re asking themselves the wrong question.

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How The U.S. Downgrade and Euro Credit Crisis Impacts the Stock Market

After Watching This Video You Will Want To Sign Up for A Free Special Gift on How to Invest While Avoiding the Biggest Mistakes Most People Make.

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The Credit Rating Downgrades, combined with concerns about the credit issues in Europe raises increasingly sets the stage for a global lost decade.  

The above is a bold claim, but there are many reasons why it just might be our future:

1) While the S&P might be at fault by calling the downgrade half hazardously, other credit agencies have raised similar concerns about the worthiness of the U.S.’s credit rating.

2) The S&P downgrade of U.S. Treasury will be the first of a string of downgrades of insurance giants, industrial companies, and utilities all of which rely on a strong domestic credit system to prosper.

3) The U.S. economy is growing at well below 1% even with the Federal Reserve’s QE2 stimulus.

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Hi,

I’m Jennifer, Wes has asked me to contribute as a guest blogger this week to talk about how to overcome one of the biggest sticking point for those of you who have trouble investing your money.  I’m going to talk about how do you find clever ways to find money to put into your investment accounts and get a reliable return from it.

1)Avoid debt at all costs

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Recently when you go to Yahoo! Finance you might have seen some banner ads about how to get investment guides on how to make money with Penny Stocks.

I might get some flack from the Internet Kiddies for this but damn have I ever heard stupider things than from these websites and news letters.

Seriously will this madness ever end?

Lets start with the obvious appeal.  Penny Stocks is obviously an attractive idea so much so that it has always managed to attract a following though decades of bull markets and bear markets alike. There’s is a natural gravitational pull to the idea that if a stock is only a few pennies that it should have an easy time improving its gains. It’s the best kind of investment analysis easy, obvious, and completely wrong.

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What’s really funny about people who are enthusiastic about investing is that often times they believe that they gain a lot of insight by listening to earning calls or watching Mad Money to see the CEO interviews.  It begs the question, does listening to CEOs help you become a better investor?

The short answer to me is no. Think about it, CEOs run a gigantic machine of enormous complexity and the only way they can possibly get themselves out of bet is if they believe in what they are doing. They have what we call an occupational bias to believe in what they’re doing.  Upton Sinclair got it right.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

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