About 560 articles by Matthew Milner

The #1 Question to Ask Before You Invest

17 years ago, a start-up called Kozmo offered consumers something they’d never experienced before:

One-hour delivery of just about anything you could imagine.

Need a couple of aspirin or a new hairdryer? You got it.

How about a soy latte from Starbucks? On its way.

But in the span of…

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Easy Way to Earn High Returns with Lower Risk

Today we’ll introduce you to a special website.

Sure, we often show you new “funding platforms”—the websites where you can invest in promising young companies before they become household names.

But the site we’ll show you today goes even further:

Not only does it feature extraordinary start-ups… it also puts…

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The Next PayPal

PayPal is one of the Internet’s great success stories.

An online payment solution that got its start in 1998, PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Its early investors made a fortune.

Today, PayPal generates $8 billion in revenues a year—and according to JP Morgan, its current…

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A Market Where Every Stock Goes Up

Imagine, for a moment, a world where the odds are always stacked in your favor:

A world where every horse you bet on wins the race…

Every cast of your reel lands you the biggest fish…

And every putt you attempt goes in the hole.

Now imagine something even more…

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The Art of Making Money

Right this second, there’s a certain corner of the market where investors are minting money.

It has nothing to do with stocks… options… gold… or anything else that sits in your portfolio.

In fact, this market is extremely exclusive: it’s estimated that less than 10,000 investors are active participants worldwide.

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Real-Life Buried Treasure

In the early morning of January 23, 1909, amidst a dense fog, an “unsinkable” luxury steamship called the RMS Republic collided with another ship.

The Republic soon sank to the bottom of the ocean. She was in treacherous, shark-infested waters 50 miles off the coast of Nantucket, beyond recovery.

Many…

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How to "Legally" Earn a 406% Return

David and Goliath are once again at war.

In this modern-day version, David is a small business, and Goliath is a vast conglomerate with unlimited resources.

Goliath has stolen David’s intellectual property – and despite the fact that David is in the right, he can’t afford a courtroom battle on…

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