The Financial Foibles of Mark Twain
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The Motley Fool
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Author Alan Pell Crawford joins us to talk about his book, “How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain.” We’ll also learn a few lessons from the downfall of Theranos and its relentlessly deceptive founder.
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| 0:31.0 | This is Motley Fool Answers. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert |
| 0:36.0 | here at the Motley Fool. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey, bro. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, Alison. |
| 0:39.3 | In this week's episode, we've enlisted the help of author Alan Pell Crawford. |
| 0:43.3 | He's written a book about Mark Twain and all the money mistakes he made. |
| 0:47.3 | We're also going to talk about the downfall of Theranos and its tenaciously deceptive founder. |
| 0:52.3 | All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Phil Answers. |
| 0:56.8 | So, what's up, Allison? |
| 0:58.2 | Yeah, that's right. It's What's Up, Allison, not What's Up Bro this week. |
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| 1:04.7 | So what's up with me is that I've been thinking about how glad I am that we no longer live in a world of medical quackery, |
| 1:11.9 | where someone can claim a technological breakthrough and then investors sink a ton of money |
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| 1:21.8 | lying. That doesn't happen anymore? |
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