Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 1

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Back in the olden days of flip phones and paper newsletters, every issue of Stock Advisor and Rule Breakers started with a short essay conveying timeless investing lessons. Well, as long as they're timeless, why not revisit them? Today we look back to yesterday's Foolishness with today's fresh eyes.

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0:00.0	For years and years I wrote essays in Motley Fool Stock Advisor and Motley Fool
0:07.2	Rule Breakers essays to kick off the issues.
0:10.4	So it would be May 2008. Wow, you remember 2008 and in addition to our new stock picks and our best buys now that month the mailed issue of rule breakers let off with a page 1 essay from me and same with the next month and the month after that for years.
0:31.0	Well do you recognize any old school references, issues, mailed issues? These days, our services
0:37.0	are digital, we don't do paper copies anymore, and we don't do opening essays. I'll explain a bit later about why. But I put a lot
0:48.1	of time into those essays and as they occurred over a long narrative arc of history, 2002 through 2017, 15 years worth of them.
0:58.7	It can be both educational and amusing to go back and see what was being said when.
1:04.0	The purpose of the Motley Fool is to make the world smarter, happier, and richer.
1:09.0	And that's exactly what I was doing with those essays for years.
1:13.7	So I've pulled some favorites with some timeless truths,
1:17.2	and I want to introduce, or for long time,
1:20.4	fools, if you will, reintroduce you to our rule breaker thinking over time.
1:27.4	But this isn't nostalgia or about yesterday.
1:30.3	I think it may be a fine way to educate, amuse, and enrich you this week only on Rule
1:38.4	Breaker Investing.
1:41.9	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full co-founder David Gardner.
1:47.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:51.0	Happy June 2020.
1:54.6	It's not a very happy world right now,
1:56.2	at least here in the United States,
1:58.0	and I think a lot of people will be aware of the case.
2:00.9	Not only do we have a pandemic, but we also have the epidemic of something far more insidious and probably farther reaching, both looking backward and certainly looking forward.
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