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RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20234 min read
The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make
Paul Samuelson put it best when he said investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement,...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20235 min read
10 Simple Steps to Save Cash
Times are tough. Incomes are down due to the COVID 19 pandemic so you need to go on the defensive, The hardest part of any savings...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20238 min read
Twelve Cardinal Rules of Property Investing
John Keats, in his poem 'A Thing of Beauty' proclaims that a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Beauty never passes into nothingness. Our...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20236 min read
How To Become a Millionaire – in 30 Short Years
Everyone tells you to save for retirement. This is the biggest lie since fidelity was introduced into the French wedding vows. You should...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20237 min read
How to Change Your Relationship with Money in 6 Steps
The widespread abolition of human slavery in the 19th century was a giant leap forward for mankind. The 20th century, however, saw the...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20238 min read
How Retail is Being Disrupted
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just ‘how do we make the retail experience a great one? Phillip Green,...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20238 min read
How Corporations have become Monsters in the Equity Market – and why YOU should care
In the previous century, after a company had maxed out all its private funding sources, it would tap into the large pool of public...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20238 min read
6 Reasons why NOW may the best time ever to buy a second-hand car
Last Christmas, I conducted an automobile/mobility experiment. In the interest of highlighting the plight of that delicious holiday fowl,...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20238 min read
Three Reasons not to get a Long-Term Job
Oscar Wilde said that work is the curse of the drinking classes. I graduated from law school in 1994. Given I was neither blessed with...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20239 min read
10 Things You Need to Know about Selling to Generation Z
But a new generation is on the rise and the first step to communicating with them, is understanding they aren't just another Millennial....
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20238 min read
Everything You Need to Know to Make Money from the Death of Fossil Fuels and the Rise of Green
Oil is a dirty product and has caused more wars than sexy women and short men combined. In the 1980s, the countries against whom the...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20238 min read
6 Reasons the Stock Market is the Dumbest in Town
Everyone tells you to follow the “smart money.” That is HORRIBLE advice. You should follow the dumb money. Why compete with the smart...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20234 min read
The 3 Worst Long-Term Investments
Ask any financial advisor for their top five long term investments, I would wager that the majority would include retirement annuities,...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 202312 min read
Why You Should Not Save for Retirement
Most people manage their finances based on a list of financial lies. These lies have been passed down through the generations and now...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20233 min read
Four Recommerce Businesses that will THRIVE in 2022
We have all heard about e-commerce. Not many people have heard about recommerce. According to Wikipedia, recommerce or reverse commerce,...
RALPH COPE
Jan 31, 20235 min read
5 Things High-Value Men are Doing about their Personal Finances
COVID-19 is ripping through the global economy like an F5 tornado. This financial uncertainty is causing money stress levels to spike off...
RALPH COPE
Dec 7, 20214 min read
5 Reasons to Have ZERO Expectations
Warren Buffett, one of the greatest investors in the history of the world, was asked for the secret to a long-lasting marriage, and he...
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