J.L. Collins, Achieving Financial Independence

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Finding Rule Breakers, IRL Investing, and Making Mistakes

Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Rick Munarriz explore what separates exceptional long-term investments from the rest, from classic Rule Breaker traits to the enormous upside of finding a rare 10x or 100x winner. They examine how the AI era could favor deep-pocketed incumbents, wh ...  Show more

The Might (and Myths) of Economic Moats

For many buy-and-hold investors out there just getting started, knowing how to understand businesses better is one of the first skills to develop. One term that the financial media world has developed for business strengths is economic moat: that “it factor” that keeps its compet ...  Show more

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