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Couch Potato Rebuttals

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I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Well, it took about two weeks, but the Couch Potato cabal piled on all at once in response to my post on Why This Is No Market for Couch Potatoes….

Why This Is No Market for Couch Potatoes

Couch Potato Portfolio

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. ~Raymond E. Feist Update: This article was featured in the Totally Money Carnival at Family Money Values. Thanks! A recent article in Money Sense magazine offered some data on investment returns for the publication’s preferred investment…

Ignorance Makes You a Better Investor & Other Money-Losing Fallacies

Genuine ignorance is . . . profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity and open-mindedness; whereas the ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. ~ John Dewey Update: This article was included in the Carnival…