[Part 2 of 3] The 2000 Screw University class reunion ScottsBlog?

Hello again ScottsBlog-

Once someone in the public buys the stock they
fall in love with the company. They study its
product lineup. They worship the �qualifications�
of the corporate inside management team. They
pay more attention to signs of strength in the
company then anything else. Why do they do this?
Because subconsciously they know that if they
can get excited about the company they can
transmit this into the minds of the people around
them.

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If more people get excited about the stock,
more people will buy it then they will sell it and
the price will rise and the pyramid scheme driving
the stock price increase gets stronger. This is why
I personally pay attention only loosely to fundamental
factors because what drives stock prices is public
perception and the Wall Street machine that controls
the game call the shots in terms of what you get to see
about any particular company.

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Wall Street is very skilled at manipulating the public�s
hopes in this regard. When I refer to Wall Street I am
talking about the vast network of brokers, brokerages,
stock analysts, investment banks, stock exchanges, the
ring leaders in the form of investment TV shows like
Mad Money on CNBC, investment radio shows, and
the stars of the show, the executive corporate insiders.
Each of these participants in the Wall Street money machine
has a piece of every dollar you pump into the stock market.
Go here right now to learn how to turn the tables on Wall Street and flash your own Srew University diploma right back at em�:

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

-Scott

Ps. The price of my Bulletproof Stock Investing
home study course is increasing $100.00 next
Saturday on February 18, 2006 due to the high
value of the course and the hard cost of producing
and shipping the course. I am letting you know so
that you are not caught of guard because the course
price will never be this low again.

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[Part 1 of 3] Who attended the 2000 Screw University class reunion ScottsBlog?

Hi ScottsBlog-

Both fundamental and technical analysis have
their place in investing but most people fail to
understand the backdrop of the market that
dictates how you use each. Let�s say you were
selling a small expanding car repair shop chain
with say 3 stores, for instance, and could prove
that the company has healthy with steadily
increasing profits. You could justify a high price
for the business because of the steadily increasing
cash flow that the new owner will reap for managing
the business.

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Makes total sense on the level of a sole proprietorship
but in Wall Street tries to convince you it is same
with corporate earnings and stock dividends
but they are trying to dupe you and here is
why. First of all executive corporate insiders
are under no obligation to pay out any of the
corporate profits. They can easily justify this
by plowing profits back into the company.
Even worse they use profits to buy the company
stock at high price levels when they want to cash
out of their stock options they paid nothing for or
even to give themselves more perks.

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By the way the insiders have fought tooth and nail
against the Financial Accounting Standards
Board (FASB) to ensure that corporate stock
options are not reported as a cost to the company!
Even if you buy a stock on the primary market you
still have to sell it on the secondary market. This
is why I tell people that the is a special college
for executive corporate insiders called Screw
University (For instance my undergraduate
degree is Indiana University also known as
Indiana U.).

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On the secondary market you are buying the
stock from another person not the company itself.
That means that people really only care about won
thing. They think to themselves, �Can I buy the
stock at today�s price and sell it for more down
the road in the future?� This means that the stock
market is really a big pyramid scheme where people
can legally buy in at any price and they hope that
they are among the first before a big price rise
takes off. To learn how to make potentially
huge amounts of money off of this fact go here now!

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

-Scott

Ps. The price of my Bulletproof Stock Investing
home study course is increasing $100.00 next
Saturday on February 18, 2006 due to the high
value of the course and the hard cost of producing
and shipping the course. I am letting you know so
that you are not caught of guard because the course
price will never be this low again.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

If you wish to cancel your subscription, simply click once on the link below.
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3 vital ke.ys to we.alth ScottsBlog!

Hi ScottsBlog;

There are three simple keys to becoming
permanently wea.lthy. If you master these keys
and integrate them into your daily life. You will
start to notice how many people are actually going
backward on the road to ric.hes!
Key #1: Maximize your earnings. Look for
creative ways to make extra mon.ey in your spare
time. Alternatively, if you have a stay at home
spouse then fully support them in making extra
mon.ey.
Key #2: Eliminate or drastically reduce your debts.
Do not make get a second mortgage on your
home to meet you ca.sh needs unless your only
other opportunity is �Guido the lo.an shark!�
The Dit.ech marketing tagline is �Another lo.an
lost to Dit.ech� but it would be more accurate if
it were �another sucker stepped into our bear
trap!� The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
that insures your bank deposits for instance offers
strong warnings against seeking a second mortgage
when you are ca.sh strapped (http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/predatorylending/index.html)
as does the Federal Trade Commission (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/homes/eqscams.htm ).

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Here is a checklist of things you can do right
now to become debt free:

1: Look out for wasteful expenditures in your household (make sure your significant other is on board in this area).

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

2: Do not buy a new vehicle after you ca.sh out
the lo.an. This is a significant and short term
source of savings for most families. If you
immediately begin paying what you were
paying on your monthly car payment into an
investment retirement account such as a Roth
IRA you will be getting richer instead of
expanding your lifestyle or wasting the extra
mon.ey. Sit down and plan with your partner
now what you will do when you ca.sh out your
car lo.an. My wife and I saved $600.00 of the
$700 we were paying monthly on our car lo.ans
or $7,200.00 annually. If you did this you would
only be short $800.00 to make the full contribution
this year to both you and your significant other�s
Roth IRA! If you saved or earned an extra $3.08
per each of the 260 working days in a year you
would cover the additional $800.00 short fall.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

2: Use some of the mon.ey you were paying
on a car lo.an to accelerate your mortgage. For
instance if you were to put $100.00 of the $700.00
in the preceding example toward the principal
balance of a $100,000.00 mortgage originated
at 6% for thirty years at the time you buy your
residence you would reduce the payoff date by
nine years and save $39,551.45 in interest
payments! This is called �accelerating� a
mortgage.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

3: Follow Warren Buffet�s investing advice
for the mon.ey you save in your Roth IRA.
Look for large, well managed companies that
are undervalued in terms of share price then
buy and hold for long term gains over years or
even a decade or more. Learn to get out when
the market is hyped up to ridiculous heights as
it was in 1999 and 2000. It was during this
period that virtually all corporate insiders were
dumping their optioned shares on the public
(Read Yale English professor and financial
journalist Maggie Mahar�s, delightful book �Bull!�
for an eloquent description of how inside corporate
America pulled off the �pump and dump� scheme
of the century without a single SEC subpoena).
Avoid short term, highly leveraged, fast buck
investment strategies like futures, futures options,
and stock options as an investment vehicle no
matter how well known the author/ speaker/
guru is. Remember that many financial gurus
do not walk their talk. They are intent on making
lots of mon.ey selling courses to support their own
excessive lifestyle.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Key #3: Learn to invest intelligently what you
save. Successful investing takes patience, resolve,
discipline, forgiveness of mistakes, and consistency.
In my many years as both a finance professor and
investor my personal observation is that women
have more of these characteristics than men. The
one difference I have noted is that women do not
always exploit these natural strengths for fear of
loss, or fear of what other people will say if people
were to find out they invest. Don�t let your fear
hold you back but be methodical in learning about
the stock market before you commit your hard
earned savings.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Don�t ever forget that a strong man is one who
fully supports the woman he loves. A strong man
has sufficient self confidence to continue working
as a team even if his wife earns more as was the case
throughout most of our marriage. A strong man
understands the power of unity throughout his
relationship with the women he loves. If you are a
woman reading this then recognize that you should
never tolerate a man who belittles you in any way;
who makes you think that you cannot invest or
manage your mon.ey just as well or even better
than he does. You do not need a man by your
side to complete yourself but on the other hand
fairy tale romances really do exist if you are
ready. If you let your higher mind guide you
to the right partner you will truly find a
relationship made in heaven.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

My wife and I do all of our financial planning
together as a team. My fearlessness can also
lead to impetuousness which is balanced by
her level head. I firmly believe that the best
investors of all are a unified team of loving
husband and wife or loving life partners.
Love and forgive one another with all your
hearts and you will find your common ground
and your invulnerability. We each have individual
strengths but when two minds commune the resulting
unified mind is much, much stronger than the parts!
Go here now if you are ready to learn about stock
investing:

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

-Scott

Ps. I just posted an answer to a great question from a 25 year old woman saving to purchase her dream home. Don�t forget that you have to hit the register button if you have never been in. I created the Wallet Doctor discussion board for you so don�t be bashful about using it!

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ScottsBlog are you mad at me about AAPL?

Hey ScottsBlog-

I received an awesome reply yesterday from
a gentleman intimately involved with Apple
Computers (you know who you are). He told
me that his son bought the stock low His son is
clearly on the road to great riches! He also extolled
the virtues of the company and its loyal fan base.
I whole heartedly agreed! Apple Computers
has the hottest products on the market right now
and is a well managed company.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

If you walk into Comp USA it is impossible
not to be immediately attracted to the incredibly
cool looking and well built Macintosh computers
and I-pod mp3 players. But the reality is that many
software producers cannot afford to write for the
Macintosh platform, even though it is far superior,
because of the near monopoly Microsoft achieved
with its non-Macintosh operating system. It was
for that reason that I, a former hardened Mac fan,
was forced to convert irrevocably to Windows XP;
I simply could not get my math and finance programs
to run on my Macintosh.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Time will tell if the I-pod will hold out. There
are all ready a lot of mp3 I-pod rip offs out there.
However, when John Scully, former inside
CEO of Pepsi Cola pillaged Apple I thought
the company was in the garbage bin from
the standpoint of the �church of Macintosh�
and so did many others. The rise in stock price
has been remarkable but sustained increases
are not guaranteed.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

People in the public simply don�t understand
the importance of separation of church and state!
Marketing departments for companies like Apple
spend enormous energy creating a cult like church
following of worshippers of the company and
products. However this does not necessarily
have anything to do with share price.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

The state of stock investing is very different
from the church of consumerism. When investors
buy a stock they really only care about one thing;
�can they buy the stock low today and sell it high
tomorrow?� This is investing in a nutshell so
when you hear someone talking about how great
a company and its products are as if this MUST
mean that continued share price increases MUST
continue then yawn and move on (this is not
implied by the gentleman who sent me the
delightful e-mail I received last night, by the way)!

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Let me explain with numbers. Let�s say that
the son of the gentleman who e-mailed me
bought AAPL at $10 per share and sold it two
and a half years later at $80 per share at the
beginning of this year. That is a remarkable
700% holding period return (non-annualized
return). Now I ask you, �how much would
the stock price have to increase if you bought
AAPL stock at $80 for you to have a 700%
holding period return two and a half years
from now in 2008?�

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The answer is $640 per share!!! Yes, I am
telling that if you are interested in Apple
stock because of its recent spectacular rise
that you would have to get a $560 increase
in the share price to get the same result. Do
you see why I get so annoyed when I get
junk mail from investment gurus hawking
stocks like this to a gullible, inexperienced
public that worships the products and services
of a company like AAPL? Talk about rubbish!
You don�t need to rely on this momentum
garbage that seemed to work at the top of the
market in the nineties for a short while.
Momentum investing sucks because you never
know when the market is gong to turn on you.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

This is why it is so important for you to
learn to coldly identify stocks that are low
priced and buy them when nobody wants them.
Learn to buy them when they are not being hawked
by slick financial gurus. This is exactly what I
teach you to do in my course. All the signs
were there in AAPL if you knew how to read
them. There are so many great companies with
low priced stocks out there right now waiting for
you to buy them. Go here right now if you want
to learn how to invest in stocks the right way:

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

-Scott

Ps. Remember that Wall Street wants to feed
you a line of bull that you aren�t smart enough
or capable enough to invest on your own. I am
teaching you that you are richer than you think.
You can become a great stock investor. Join me in the
revolt against Wall Street! Just forward this e-mail
to your buddies and tell all your friends to get their
fr.ee subscription to this e-zine by registering at:
www.WalletDoctor.com

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When a st.ock stinks ScottsBlog�

Hi ScottsBlog-

..notice that on January 3rd a question was posted
about AAPL in the Wallet Doctor Forum
(http://walletdoctor.com/thedoctorisin/login.php)
about Apple Computer. I commented that I
did not like the chart pattern. Here is why.
[Open another browser window for
www.bigcharts.com and then type in the
ticker symbol for Apple computer (AAPL).]
When I looked at the price chart I immediately
noticed that it had been in a constant uptrend
from $40.00 per share to $80.00 per share.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Pay attention. What I did not like about the
chart was that it had risen too much. This
means that all of the people who bought at
lower prices are starting to take profits by
selling out. Selling pressure forces the stock
down.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Ironically, when �financial gurus� are hawking
their secret method they will write idiocies
like �100% return on AAPL this year alone.�
Anytime a stock like AAPL has a long extended
rise like this every financial analyst (a close
cousin to the gypsy fortune teller) claims that
they saw AAPL coming and how you missed
out because you weren�t listening to them.
This is how the unknowing public�s attention
is diverted to stocks that are already run up.
The greenhorns (another way of saying
inexperienced) get sucked into bad stock market
investments this way. The public gets burned
buying high and selling low. I don�t teach you
to listen to me I teach you to listen to yourself
for this very reason. This is why it is so important
that you develop your own skills to analyze and
select your own stocks..

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Also notice how Bigcharts.com kicks you onto
a one year chart automatically. That is because
almost everyone who wants to get rich in the
stock market focuses on the short term and
looks at one year charts. [Use the drop down
menu next to where you entered the symbol
to select a decade chart and look at what
happens.] It is obvious that the right time to
buy was back in 2003 when you weren�t
hearing anything about AAPL. I would have
written something like this, �AAPL has a
0% return this year and is my hottest buy
recommendation� and would not get any
interest from anyone because people simply
do not understand long term stock investing.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

If you would have bought AAPL at the
right price you would have paid between
$8 and $10 just a few years ago. You would
have had around a 700% holding period return
when all of the greenhorns were jumping in at
$80. Now you tell me who would sleep better
at night. You would have bought at $10 and
would be selling now to the greenhorns who
bought in at $80. You would sleep well at
night while they are tossing and turning in bed.
This is why it is so important for you to learn
how to invest in the long term.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

There is a lot of detail to reading long term
charts well but you can see how easy it is to
spot the sucker plays on a long term price chart.
Go here right now to start to really learn how
to buy low and sell high:

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

-Scott

Ps. I want to give a big kudos to the person
who posted that great question on the forum
please keep posting them and I will keep
teaching you. Don�t forget that you have
to register to get in:
http://walletdoctor.com/thedoctorisin/login.php

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AAPL - when a stock stinks ScottsBlog

Hi ScottsBlog-

Notice that on January 3rd a question was posted about AAPL in the Wallet Doctor Forum (http://walletdoctor.com/thedoctorisin/login.php) about Apple Computer. I commented that I did not like the chart pattern. Here is why. [Open another browser window for www.bigcharts.com and then type in the ticker symbol for Apple computers (AAPL).] When I looked at the price chart I immediately noticed that it had been in a constant uptrend from $40.00 per share to $80.00 per share.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Pay attention. What I did not like about the chart was that it had risen too much. This means that all of the people who bought at lower prices are starting to take profits by selling out. Selling pressure forces the stock down.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Ironically, when financial gurus are hawking their secret method they will write idiocies like �100% return on AAPL this year alone.� Anytime a stock like AAPL has a long extended rise like this every financial analyst (a close cousin to the gypsy fortune teller) claims that they saw AAPL coming and how you missed out because you weren�t listening to them. This is how the unknowing public�s attention is diverted to stocks that are already run up. The greenhorns (another way of saying inexperienced) get sucked into bad stock market investments this way. The public gets burned buying high and selling low. I don�t teach you to listen to me I teach you to listen to yourself for this very reason. This is why it is so important that you develop your own skills to analyze and select your own stocks..

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Also notice how Bigcharts.com kicks you onto a one year chart automatically. That is because almost everyone who wants to get rich in the stock market focuses on the short term and looks at one year charts. [Use the drop down menu next to where you entered the symbol to select a decade chart and look at what happens.] It is obvious that the right time to buy was back in 2003 when you weren�t hearing anything about AAPL. I would have written something like this, �AAPL has a 0% return this year and is my hottest buy recommendation� and would not get any interest from anyone because people simply do not understand long term stock investing.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

If you would have bought AAPL at the right price you would have paid between $8 and $10 just a few years ago. You would have had around a 700% holding period return when all of the greenhorns were jumping in at $80. Now you tell me who would sleep better at night. You would have bought at $10 and would be selling now to the greenhorns who bought in at $80. You would sleep well at night while they are tossing and turning in bed. This is why it is so important for you to learn how to invest in the long term.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

There is a lot of detail to reading long term charts well but you can see how easy it is to spot the sucker plays on a long term price chart. Go here right now to start to really learn how to buy low and sell high:

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

-Scott

Ps. I want to give a big kudos to the person who posted that great question on the forum please keep posting them and I will keep teaching you. Don�t forget that you have to register to get in: http://walletdoctor.com/thedoctorisin/login.php

If you wish to cancel your subscription, simply click once on the link below.
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ScottsBlog here are three keys to your golden kingdom!

Hi ScottsBlog;

There are three simple keys to becoming
permanently wealthy. If you master these keys
and integrate them into your daily life. You will
start to notice how many people are actually going
backward on the road to ric.hes as you race forward!
Key #1: Maximize your earnings. Look for
creative ways to make extra money in your spare
time. Alternatively, if you have a stay at home
spouse then fully support them in making extra
money.
Key #2: Eliminate or drastically reduce your debts.
Do not make get a second mortgage on your
home to meet you cash needs unless your only
other opportunity is �Guido the loan shark!�
The Ditech marketing tagline is �Another loan
lost to Ditech� but it would be more accurate if
it were �another sucker stepped into our bear
trap!� The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
that insures your bank deposits for instance offers
strong warnings against seeking a second mortgage
when you are cash strapped (http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/predatorylending/index.html)
as does the Federal Trade Commission (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/homes/eqscams.htm ).

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Here is a checklist of things you can do right
now to become debt free:

1: Look out for wasteful expenditures in your household (make sure your significant other is on board in this area).

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

2: Do not buy a new vehicle after you cash out
the loan. This is a significant and short term
source of savings for most families. If you
immediately begin paying what you were
paying on your monthly car payment into an
investment retirement account such as a Roth
IRA you will be getting richer instead of
expanding your lifestyle or wasting the extra
money. Sit down and plan with your partner
now what you will do when you cash out your
car loan. My wife and I saved $600.00 of the
$700 we were paying monthly on our car loans
or $7,200.00 annually. If you did this you would
only be short $800.00 to make the full contribution
this year to both you and your significant other�s
Roth IRA! If you saved or earned an extra $3.08
per each of the 260 working days in a year you
would cover the additional $800.00 short fall.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

2: Use some of the money you were paying
on a car loan to accelerate your mortgage. For
instance if you were to put $100.00 of the $700.00
in the preceding example toward the principal
balance of a $100,000.00 mortgage originated
at 6% for thirty years at the time you buy your
residence you would reduce the payoff date by
nine years and save $39,551.45 in interest
payments! This is called �accelerating� a
mortgage.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

3: Follow Warren Buffet�s investing advice
for the money you save in your Roth IRA.
Look for large, well managed companies that
are undervalued in terms of share price then
buy and hold for long term gains over years or
even a decade or more. Learn to get out when
the market is hyped up to ridiculous heights as
it was in 1999 and 2000. It was during this
period that virtually all corporate insiders were
dumping their optioned shares on the public
(Read Yale English professor and financial
journalist Maggie Mahar�s, delightful book �Bull!�
for an eloquent description of how inside corporate
America pulled off the �pump and dump� scheme
of the century without a single SEC subpoena).
Avoid short term, highly leveraged, fast buck
investment strategies like futures, futures options,
and stock options as an investment vehicle no
matter how well known the author/ speaker/
guru is. Remember that many financial gurus
do not walk their talk. They are intent on making
lots of money selling courses to support their own
excessive lifestyle.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Key #3: Learn to invest intelligently what you
save. Successful investing takes patience, resolve,
discipline, forgiveness of mistakes, and consistency.
In my many years as both a finance professor and
investor my personal observation is that women
have more of these characteristics than men. The
one difference I have noted is that women do not
always exploit these natural strengths for fear of
loss, or fear of what other people will say if people
were to find out they invest. Don�t let your fear
hold you back but be methodical in learning about
the stock market before you commit your hard
earned savings.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

Don�t ever forget that a strong man is one who
fully supports the woman he loves. A strong man
has sufficient self confidence to continue working
as a team even if his wife earns more as was the case
throughout most of our marriage. A strong man
understands the power of unity throughout his
relationship with the women he loves. If you are a
woman reading this then recognize that you should
never tolerate a man who belittles you in any way;
who makes you think that you cannot invest or
manage your money just as well or even better
than he does. You do not need a man by your
side to complete yourself but on the other hand
fairy tale romances really do exist if you are
ready. If you let your higher mind guide you
to the right partner you will truly find a
relationship made in heaven.

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

My wife and I do all of our financial planning
together as a team. My fearlessness can also
lead to impetuousness which is balanced by
her level head. I firmly believe that the best
investors of all are a unified team of loving
husband and wife or loving life partners.
Love and forgive one another with all your
hearts and you will find your common ground
and your invulnerability. We each have individual
strengths but when two minds commune the resulting
unified mind is much, much stronger than the parts!
Go here now if you are ready to learn about stock
investing:

http://www.walletdoctor.com/stockcd.htm

-Scott

Ps. You may have notice that I put periods inside
some words. I do this so that these messages don�t
get blocked out by the spam filter. Also don�t forget
that I have created a forum for your questions so please
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A safe harbor for mutual fund pirates

�The Wallet Doctor�
A financial newsletter for long-term investors!
Volume 1, Issue 16
Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D.

A SAFE HARBOR FOR MUTUAL FUND PIRATES!

Soft dollars, a form of legal kickback, is a sly way you can get ripped off by mutual fund managers. Full service brokers give these kickbacks to non-indexed mutual funds in the form of a �rebate� to purchase research, software, and even computer equipment.

You pay for these soft dollars! In recent years, the SEC estimated that soft-dollar deals exceeded $1 billion. Typically, $1 accrues for every $1.60 of brokerage commissions paid. Congress made these kickbacks legal in 1975 when it passed the �safe harbor� law. The legislation allows fund managers to pay more in commissions than is necessary, as long as the excess comes back in the form of services or research that benefits investors.

The problem is that this has created an opaque system that can be abused. In 1998, the SEC found that some money mangers were using soft dollars to pay for salaries, office rent, and even vacations! Think about this. You sweat every day at work to make a living. You buy a mutual fund to secure your retirement. Then the person who is supposedly protecting your retirement is sipping Margaritas in Cancun discussing with his or her buddies where to buy their next mansion with your retirement dollars!
The second problem is that many funds are not taking advantage of cost saving efficiencies in their operations just so that they can keep the soft-dollar spigot open. Think about this as well.

If you had enough money to not have to work you would spend a considerable amount of time looking for safe places with a good return for your money. You would not waste money on things your family did not want and hence did not need. Why five your money then to a mutual fund managers who could care less if they waste some of your retirement dollars; its no skin off their back! The best way to avoid these losses altogether is to restrict your purchases of mutual funds to your 401(k) and try to only buy indexed mutual funds such as the Vanguard 500 (FINX).
If you want to learn more about investing in individual stocks get my course �The Blue-Collar Base Bonanza � What the insiders [definitely] don�t want you to know!� More detailed information about the course is on my website at http://walletdoctor.com/cgi-bin/arp3/arp3-t.pl?l=3&c=206.

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The nearly unpopulated debt-free-state ScottsBlog

Hi ScottsBlog

I teach all of my students the incredible
tranquility of the debt-free-state. Debt
free is just incredible. You can wake up
in the morning knowing that your feet
don�t have to hit the floor running to
scramble up some green to feed the
mortgage monster for another 30 days.
When you are debt free you really can
settle down and relax and savor you
options instead of desperately seeking
solutions to monthly payments. You
really do need to think right now about
the life you really want. How much of your
time do you want to enjoy right now? You will
enjoy yourself much more �now� by becoming
debt free while investing in the long term
where you don�t have to frantically watch your
stock prices on a computer monitor all day.

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Sit down and look at the income you make.
Total up all of the house payments, car payments,
and credit card payments that you make. For
most people this is over $1,500.00 per month.
Stop and think about what I am about to say.
If you were able to erase your mortgage, your
car loans, and your credit card debt you would
be giving your self a raise in this scenario of
$1,8000.00! Putting the maximum $4,000.00
contribution into your Roth IRA means that
you would still have $10,000 to have fun with.

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Now here is the great part. You would be
able to have the same lifestyle you do now
living on $1,800.00 a month less. The U.S.
savings rate in 1980 was 10%. In August of
last year the U.S. Department of Commerce
reported that this had dropped to zero! Part
of this was attributed to an increase in home
values. But read what I have to say very
carefully. Home equity is an illusion because
it does not put food on your table like eliminating
your debt does! Californians are particularly
prone to wake up calls as the hottest real estate
bubble in state history began to cool off last year.
Alliance Title in the city of Redding reported
virtually zero closings for properties above
$500,000.00 to my family�s real estate brokerage in
the Cascade Mountains. This tells me as a financial
economist that home buyers are no longer willing to
pay inflated values so don�t look toward you home
equity as some sort of piggy bank.

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The only way to eliminate your debt is to start
saving or save more. But most people don�t want
to sacrifice their overblown lifestyles today to
become more comfortable tomorrow. Most people
today are too hardheaded in there drive to show
people how financially successful they are. They
want to drive a new car, upgrade to a bigger house,
and put on �airs� of wealth. People who live like
this will never become wealthy stock investors
because they won�t get through the beginning
years when they either develop this debt free
habitual way. They will simply chain themselves
more and more to their own jail of debt (also
called leverage in finance). For this reason the
least populated state in the union is the debt Free
State.

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It blows my mind to observe so many people
actually attracted to leverage. Companies
like Ditech have been flooding the market with
cheesy advertising to dupe people into one of
the dumbest financial mistakes they can make;
taking out a second mortgage on their home!

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I also observe people attracted into the
investment markets that emphasize �making
lots of money fast on debt.� Unfortunately
these same markets can make you lose lots of
money very, very fast. As a former futures
and futures options trader I am extremely
sensitive to leverage of any kind. I get really
annoyed by some of the financial "gurus" out
there that are teaching people to take out
seconds on their homes to invest in the
stock market through a Roth, etc. You should
be working to financial stability not showmanship.

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Go here now to learn to put your money at work
where it really will build fast and much safer in
the long run stock market:

-Scott

Ps. Tomorrow I will tell you 3 secrets to
getting your personal finances under control.

Double Ps. If you are too timid to post a question
on the forum (http://walletdoctor.com/thedoctorisin/login.php)
then please e-mail me directly because I really am trying
to help you.

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and move up to the mountains check out
http://www.FallRiverMills.com in the secluded and exclusive
misty mountain Fall River valley in Northern California.
A spectacular mountain view home with an indoor
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