Chapter 57. Free financial seminars

Free financial seminars are common. Sometimes they are offered through mailings or advertisements in newspapers telling you about the investment seminar that will change your life. Sometimes they even provide a free lunch or at least coffee and doughnuts. But we all know there are no free lunches.

Sometimes the seminar you’re invited to has a cost for tickets of as much as hundreds of dollars, but because you’re “special,” your invitation (along with just about everyone else’s) has tickets to allow you to attend this costly seminar for free. At the seminar, you’re told how to buy real estate with no money down, how to avoid income taxes, how to totally protect your assets from claims of all those people out there ...

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