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Some deadly sins of investment: trusting false prophets, investing for the Apocalypse and the money illusion

Is the person you seek advice from able to give you a credible answer?

Robert Kiyosaki, personal finance guru

So far, this book has dealt mainly with the misdeeds of fraudsters. Now we should turn our attention to some of the faults that we ourselves as investors often commit. Perhaps the cardinal sin is ignorance: private investors really do need to educate themselves about investment, and to continue to do this for their entire investing lives. It is important to be careful about where you get your investment education from. Anyone who tells you that investing is a sure thing, or who provides vague, oversimplified guidance for what ...

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