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Trading Too Much Hurts Returns
Vanguard, a giant in the money management world, kicked off the new year by eliminating trading fees. In doing so, Vanguard finally joined Schwab, Fidelity and most other large players. Now almost everybody’s offering free stock trades to customers. Free stock trades, in some ways, are great. For someone investing $100 at a time, this is a huge win. Their…
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Tokenizing Securities Using Blockchain Tech
Dear Member, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is an interesting and unique American company. In essence, this giant keeps records of who owns which stocks and bonds. Before the DTCC – and its predecessor, the Depository Trust Company (DTC) – was established, stock ownership was recorded on paper certificates. When someone bought or sold a stock, the actual…
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SEC Considers Opening Up “Accredited Investor” Status to More Investors
As it stands today, there are two separate startup investing ecosystems. One is for accredited investors only, those who either make $200,000 a year in income or are worth more than $1 million. Accredited startup investing deals have been happening online since 2012 on sites like MicroVentures, AngelList and FundersClub. Accredited investor deals are extremely easy to conduct. Startups use…
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Eight Wishes for Early Investors
2019 has come and has almost gone. It was a good year for early investors. But it could have been so much better. If only certain things had zigged instead of zagged. Next year, I’m hoping for more zigging and less zagging. So here are my eight wishes (one for each day of Hanukkah) to make that happen in 2020……
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How to Ignite Capital Growth in 2020 (Not Through IPOs)
An IPO is one of the biggest moments of a founder’s life. It’s the crowning achievement of years of hard work, not to mention uncertainty. Startups go from a few dozen investors at the beginning to thousands and eventually millions, if all goes well. Brokers follow them. And big Wall Street investors invest in them. An IPO means the startup…
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First Stage Investor Issue No. 41
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Why Startups Should Be in Every Portfolio
If you’re a regular Early Investing reader, you know that I believe we’re heading into another recession in the next few years. It’s been a decade since the last recession. And frankly, nothing has been fixed since that one. The Fed just loosened up monetary conditions and kept interest rates near zero for a decade. It papered over the problems…
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Mailbag: Commit or Go Home
Q: What’s the very first thing you need to consider before you start investing in startups? A: Let’s start with a couple of assumptions. I’m going to assume you know that startups are more risky than most assets in your portfolio. I’m also assuming you know there’s more upside to startups than most assets in your portfolio. Those are important…
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Two Ways to Resolve the Opioid Crisis
I always thought that the Vietnam War would be the worst mass killer of Americans I’d see in my lifetime. More than 58,000 American soldiers died. But the opioid epidemic’s appalling toll amounts to nearly seven Vietnam Wars. Opioid addiction is a national tragedy. Opioids have caused more than 400,000 deaths in America alone. And when counting the friends, family…
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Veterans Are Ready for Medical Marijuana
We’ve been writing about cannabis a lot lately here at Early Investing. And not just because we feel strongly that it’s going to be an insanely profitable industry for investors. (Though it definitely will.) It’s also because we believe it has the power to improve – and save – millions of lives. We have some personal experience with the trauma…
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News Fix: CBD Products Could Still Make You Fail a Drug Test
This week, a lot of people received text messages. That’s not unusual. Billions of messages are sent in the U.S. on a daily basis according to a wireless industry trade association (SMSEagle). What is unusual is many of these messages were sent on Valentine’s Day. A glitch in the text messaging system prevented the delivery of lots (we’re still not…
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Cannabis Isn’t Going Anywhere
Pot stocks are having a rough time. Many are down 50% or more from recent highs. But the industry is doing great. Legal cannabis sales are booming. Retail sales are set to grow 35% in the U.S. this year, according to Marijuana Business Daily. And this industry is changing millions of lives for the better. Lucy Stafford’s is one of…
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First Stage Investor Issue No. 40
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Green Chip Stocks: Featuring the Coca-Cola of CBD
I know hearing about the evils of the pharmaceutical industry can be depressing. But the future is bright. The medical marijuana industry is disrupting Murder Inc.’s stranglehold over American healthcare. Every election cycle, this wonder-crop becomes legal in more states. Federal legalization is inevitable. It’s only a matter of time. That means Murder Inc.’s days are numbered. All-natural medicine derived…
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The Death of Big Pharma: Five Widely Held Stocks to Sell NOW
The largest crime syndicate in America isn’t the mob. It’s not any street gang either. That’s because it’s all above board and legal. They own your politicians. They own the airwaves and media… I’m talking, of course, about the pharmaceutical industry. Companies like Pfizer, Merck and Sanofi profit from misery. They’re the largest drug pushers in the world. Opioid overdoses…
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The CBD Consumer Report: Our Top Product Picks
On June 25, 2019, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, making Illinois the 11th state in the U.S. to legalize recreational cannabis. (Washington, D.C., has also legalized recreational marijuana.) When Illinois and Michigan begin allowing recreational marijuana sales in 2020, around 70 million adults will be able to legally shop for recreational marijuana products. So…