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How to Have a Better Mid-Life Crisis

By Dan Prescher | 02/9/2011

A mid-life crisis — if you fully embrace the stereotype — can be expensive. Fancy car… trophy wife… new body… new career. But — as with so many things — your buck buys you more when you take your mid-life crisis to a tropical paradise and teach it to dance…

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Mexico’s Legendary Silver Belt

By Christian Hill | 02/8/2011

Yesterday, I told you about an exciting silver investment detailed in Andrew Gordon’s new special report. Andrew says this company’s stock price could gain as much as 760% this year. It has to do with where the company owns land. It has 177,000 acres in the Silver Belt — the…

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Silver’s Next Jackpot

By Christian Hill | 02/7/2011

There is a lot of money to be made this year by investing in the right silver company. That’s what I learned late last week when our research director, Andrew Gordon, e-mailed me an advance copy of his latest special report. The report will be going out to members of…

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So You Wanna Be an Entrepreneur…

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/5/2011

It’s hard to say which comes first – the desire to be an entrepreneur or the germ of an idea for a business. Obviously, you need both.

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The Language Perfectionist: The Moral of the Story

By Don Hauptman | 02/4/2011

In my reading, I’ve recently encountered many sentences like these: “‘The moral and ethical tone of any organization is set at the top,’ said Michael G. Cherkasky, chairman of the panel….” “There are strong moral and ethical reasons for why low-income Americans should not be forced to grapple with pressing…

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Master Limited Partnerships

By Christian Hill | 02/4/2011

In yesterday’s issue of ETR, I talked about Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). These companies take an entirely different approach than most in the oil and gas sector. They don’t explore or drill for oil or gas. They don’t buy or sell it either. They just move oil or gas from…

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Mastering This Investment Class

By Christian Hill | 02/3/2011

The Marcellus Shale gas formation has drawn a lot of attention in the past few years. It contains an estimated 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and no fewer than 15 companies are drilling there. But natural gas prices have fluctuated quite a bit for the last nine years.…

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A Quick Way to Put Your Business on the Map

By Jason Holland | 02/1/2011

Online video gives you a way to establish instant rapport with your prospective customers. Something about seeing and hearing you talk to them shortens the time it takes for them to know, like, and trust you. (And that, as you well know, is a big part of turning them into…

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A Must for Your Marketing Arsenal

By Jason Holland | 01/31/2011

When it comes to running an online business, most entrepreneurs do it with a website full of text — interesting/useful information combined with ad copy. But as we’ve seen recently, video is coming of age online. And it can be a great way to: Provide your customers with great content…

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How to Get a Good Job Now… Even If You Are Fresh Out of College

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/29/2011

Liam O’Reilly, a recent graduate from the University of Maryland, told The New York Times that he had applied to 50 employers

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The Language Perfectionist: What Hath Wrought Wreaked?

By Don Hauptman | 01/28/2011

I found the following three sentences via online search. Can you spot anything wrong with them? “The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has wrought havoc on sea and on land.” “China’s exports began to fall in November as the global recession wrought havoc on the textile, toy,…

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Oil and Gas Profit Play

By Christian Hill | 01/28/2011

Yesterday, I told you that there is a class of investments that can produce gains that far exceed their risk level. I gave, as an example, Chevron and Exxon, which returned, respectively, an annual average of 19.9% and 10% over the last decade. Then I told you about another type…

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