As a savvy investor you know that one of the keys to long-term success is avoiding unnecessary costs. You know to steer clear of tax penalties, excessive transaction costs, and even opportunity cost (you can’t have your cake and eat it too). But there’s another cost that many investors are

At the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, Clark Stanley got up on stage and pulled a live rattlesnake out of a canvas bag. To the amazement of the crowd, he demonstrated how to kill it and extract its fat, which he called rattlesnake oil. This extract, he claimed, was guaranteed

One of the good things about the Internet is the way it’s fostered a culture of clever repurposing. For example, people who do woodturning (creating bowls and other items on a lathe) have shared how to convert an old dishwasher into a kiln for drying woodturning blanks.1 With some simple