I suspected something was wrong when I had to help the older man with his jacket.
I was on a flight to JFK airport in New York. I noticed his hands shaking, but I didn't say anything... that is, until I realized it was actor and science-communications advocate Alan Alda.
Doc's note: If you want to make real, significant gains in the stock market, you can't follow the herd.
As my friend and colleague Dan Ferris explains today, only fools put their money where the crowd is...
You could be 25 years old and just starting out in your investing career... or 10 years into retirement... and we'd have the same advice for you.
Own some gold.
Forget the twists and turns of tariff policy... Forget what pundits are saying on the news...
Instead, focus on one thing.
Fancy a radioactive cocoa-butter suppository?
In the mid-1900s, "Vita Radium Suppositories" came in a small box containing a 15-day course of the stuff. And their maker, the Denver-based Home Products Company, advertised that these suppositories "contain a result-producing amount of highly refined soluble radium" which is "absorbed thru the walls of the lower colon, enters the blood stream and is carried to all parts of the body – to the weakened organs that need its vitalizing aid."
Doc's note: When most people think of investing, they think of the stock market. But, as my colleague Eric Wade explains today, the stock market is the "little pond" most investors swim in. If you want life-changing gains, you'll need "deep, blue ocean" investments...
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Forget Warren Buffett and George Soros for a minute... We want you to think about a different investor – a young woman named Alexandra Bergson.
She arrived in the Nebraska plains with her brothers around the turn of the 20th century. Their parents were Swedish immigrants who had set out to become farmers. But early on, things looked bad...
Doc's note: He might be our in-house cryptocurrency expert, but today, Crypto Capital editor Eric Wade isn't talking about crypto.
Instead, he shares his battle with a disease known as a "silent killer"... Its symptoms often emerge too late to avoid dire (sometimes fatal) health consequences. Eric details how he realized the danger and what he's doing to overcome it...
It's hard for investors to be optimistic right now.
But I (Jeff Havenstein) want to bring you a glimmer of hope.
Cindy never thought she'd find herself in her own garbage can...
The 74-year-old Seattle resident was doing some gardening one day in June 2023. Like some sort of terrible Rube Goldberg machine, the accident unfolded in a chain of events...