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The Motley Fool
April 22, 2005
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Win More in the Lottery! Lottery jackpots are growing as your chance of winning shrinks.   |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2005
Jim Mueller |
Sure Things Beat Bad Bets Investing and growing your money is a long-term strategy. Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts to getting rich. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Critiquing the Lottery Critics' Critic If you're a sensible sort, you understand that the odds of winning big money in a lottery are so extremely remote that it's not worth buying tickets. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2005
Jim Mueller |
The Information Game Information improves the odds and is key to success in the stock market. When gambling, no amount of information will improve your odds. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2007
Rich Duprey |
The Long Odds of Lotto Playing games of chance is a losing bet for everyone -- except the companies that make them happen. You have much better odds investing that money. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
A Lottery You Always Win Slow, regular savings may not be glamorous -- some might say they're outright boring -- but when you have time and the power of compound interest working for you, regular savings get the job done. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lottery for Losers The new Florida Lotto ad campaign is a real gamble. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004 |
Warn Your Children About Lotteries Don't let your young ones throw their money away. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
Rats, I Won the Lottery! You should wish lottery jackpots only on your most hated enemies. Perhaps, instead of betting on 1-in-80 million odds, you might invest in some shares of companies that can much more reliably, and safely, reward you. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Don't Make This Dumb Decision Do yourself a favor, rein in your desperate impulses, and you'll emerge from this recession in better shape. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
A Lottery Jackpot You Can Win You don't have to take huge, improbable chances in your quest for wealth. Try these tips instead. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Gambling Is Growing Count on lotteries and casinos for entertainment, not financial salvation. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2006
Nathan Slaughter |
Winning the Retirement Lottery Beating the market is seldom easy, but neither is hitting the lottery. Unless you believe the odds of building a successful portfolio are worse than 146,107,962 to 1, the stock market still offers your best bet at a comfortable retirement. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2005
Chuck Saletta |
Beat the House at Its Own Game Investing will always be risky. You can't eliminate that, but you can tilt the odds in your favor with value investing. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2006
Rich Smith |
Lottery Nation Even with a portfolio constructed entirely from dividend-paying stocks, you'd find yourself hard-pressed to get by on the income stream that $200,000 can generate. So, forget about lottery tickets and thinking $200,000 qualifies you as rich. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2004 |
The Stock Market Is Risky Learn to take fewer chances when you invest. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Sara Pratt |
Revising the Asteroid Threat Scale Although scientists still assign Torino Impact Hazard Scale values via the same method, the language used to describe some levels has now changed to better inform the public -- and the media -- of the risk without unintentionally scaring people. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Barry E. DiGregorio |
No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2005
Robert Brokamp |
Get Rich by Beating the Odds There is no concept more fundamental to personal finance than risk vs. reward. No one becomes wealthy without taking risks. But the wrong risks can destroy your wealth. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
David Noland |
The Threat is Out There More than 100,000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one -- that we know of -- may hit us in the next 30 years. |
Geotimes
January 2004
Richard P. Binzel |
Asteroid Futures The efforts to locate large asteroids that might impact Earth, and what could be done if a threat was found. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2005 |
A Foolish Lottery Take Put your math hat on when you think about lotteries. Smart investors shouldn't buy lottery tickets, except as very infrequent amusements. |
The Motley Fool
October 31, 2007
Morgan Housel |
Winning Isn't Everything It's a hard thing to do, but at the end of the day, don't focus on how much money you made. How you go about investing is more important than how you perform. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2004 |
Mutual Funds: Big Can Be Bad It can be hard to perform well when you simply have too much money to invest. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2006
Jim Mueller |
Foolish Book Review: "Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling" Whether you enjoy playing cards and rolling dice or not, this book by David G. Schwartz will make interesting reading. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Must Be the Market Maker! Building wealth through stocks depends on betting the right side of the odds more often than not. Admitting mistakes and recognizing the real reasons for your success are vital for learning where the odds are. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Two Holes-in-One in a Single Day? Yawn ... Don't let big payoffs get you overexcited. You're more likely to rack up some amazing achievements in investing over the long haul -- that's how most multi-baggers materialize. |
Chemistry World
November 10, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
All eyes turn towards asteroid for fly-by Asteroid 2005 YU55 passed within 325,000 km of the Earth, closer than the Moon, giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the 400m wide lump of rock, which was traveling at more than 46,000 km per hour. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Krispy Kreme's Crash Diet As long as the company is able to make do with 25% less staff in some key operating areas, the slim-down will at least appease the creditors in the short term -- and perhaps the investors in the longer term. |
AskMen.com
September 25, 2002
Steve Richer |
How To: Survive A Trip To The Casino Hard-core gamblers need not read this article. But for the rest of you, nowadays, Las Vegas is being promoted as a premium family entertainment conurbation and more and more neophytes are heading to the desert to try their luck. An unprepared man will quickly find himself in over his head. |
Popular Mechanics
October 9, 2008
Thomas D. Jones |
Why the World Needs Asteroid Insurance: Resident Astronaut Meteors, or bolides, strike Earth routinely, part of the hundred tons or so of cosmic debris that rain down on us every day. We orbit the Sun in a cosmic shooting gallery |
Science News
March 27, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Pinpointing Killer Asteroids Astronomers have identified more than 230,000 asteroids in orbit around the sun, and the number is increasing daily. Some of these objects are on courses that could lead to a collision with Earth. If the asteroid is sufficiently large, the results could be catastrophic. |
National Defense
February 2016
Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2005
John Reeves |
Dueling Fools: Krispy Kreme Bear Rebuttal Krispy Kreme is almost as poor as its spelling. Ultimately, there is a good chance that Krispy Kreme will end up in bankruptcy proceedings. If it's lucky, it may narrowly escape this dire fate with some extreme restructuring. Either result would seriously destroy value for shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Krispy Kreme: Deep Fried? Has it finally happened? Has the low-carb trend, which has plagued many a food company, finally hit Krispy Kreme Doughnuts? For the first time ever, the doughnut purveyor issued a profit warning today, pushing its stock price down nearly 25% in recent trading. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
4 Disasters You Must Prepare For Forget the apocalypse. Make sure you're ready for these calamities instead. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2011
Bob Veres |
Betting the Market There's a lot we can learn from the contrasts between gambling and investing. Exploring them might not only inform conversations with clients, but also clarify the profession's role in tending client portfolios. |
