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About the Author: Trent Tucker graduated with a business degree and worked six years in the West African oilfields with SEDCO Inc. Most of those years in West Africa were spent shipping supplies through the civil wars of Angola with brief stints in Gabon and Nigeria. As a financial consultant,... More
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  • What do SusanBoyle and investing have in common?

     

    In investing there are certain realities and sometimes in the markets as in life nothing is what it seems. You only have to see the performance of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation to appreciate the beautiful upside surprises of life. So what does that have to do with investing? She is a good example of a speculative investment which paid off. You see one wise fellow had an insight on Susan Boyle and purchased the domain name, Susan Boyle. There now is a fan club web site there. Good call fellow. That was a good speculation based upon information (he had heard her sing before he debut on Britain's Got Talent and took a small risk which is paying off handsomely) but speculation is entirely different from investing.  
    There has been a lot written about excess speculation in the markets and a lot of it  trashing  capital investing but no one really takes the time to differentiate the two even though society has benefited handsomely upon both for many years. So why the trashing"? Politics and power? Naaah, couldn't be. Politics is a different subject. Let's just talk investments. What is the difference between speculation and investing?
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