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This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Allison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here

at The Motley Fool. Hello everybody. In this week's episode, we're going to talk about why

you should always own stocks even in retirement. And I'm taking you to school, fraud school.

All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers. So what's up, Allison?

It's going to see how long I could just stare at you until you remembered that was the one thing you need to say for the next six minutes.

Well, bro, I've been surrounded by fraud lately.

Both Netflix and Hulu have released documentaries about the Fire Festival and there's a new

podcast out called The Dropout and it's all about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, so I've got

fraud on my mind. It occurred to me that while both of these frauds are different, they're also

very similar and there are some lessons to be learned so that you at home can commit your very

own fraud or identify fraud when you're faced with it at work or life.

So today I'm going to offer five lessons for committing fraud from the Elizabeth Holmes and Billy McFarland School for Deceptive Leadership.

How exciting.

I know.

So I talked about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes in an earlier episode, and you probably already know the gist, but basically,

Elizabeth Holmes lied about inventing a device that could test for many medical conditions using just a pinprick of blood.

She took in millions, hundreds of millions, from VC investors, lied for over a decade that

the technology existed when, in fact, it did not.

And then here's the background on the fire festival, which, bro, you don't know anything

about?

Not really?

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