Breaking: 4,726 Colleges Set to Close

The United States has 4,726 colleges and universities.

To attend these institutions, students spend nearly $600 billion per year—that’s $393 billion for tuition, and $196 billion on expenses like travel and housing.

But a fascinating new technology has recently emerged, and it’s raising the possibility that all of those institutions—and…

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The Death of the Salaried Employee

Every spring, investors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley wait in anticipation for one of the most important reports of the year.

They’re not waiting for the jobs numbers, GDP data, or any other conventional economic indicator.

These investors are waiting on The Internet Trends Report—a report that’s predicted nearly…

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Easy Way to Earn High Returns with Lower Risk

Today we’ll introduce you to a special website.

Sure, we often show you new “funding platforms”—the websites where you can invest in promising young companies before they become household names.

But the site we’ll show you today goes even further:

Not only does it feature extraordinary start-ups… it also puts…

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The Next PayPal

PayPal is one of the Internet’s great success stories.

An online payment solution that got its start in 1998, PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Its early investors made a fortune.

Today, PayPal generates $8 billion in revenues a year—and according to JP Morgan, its current…

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A Market Where Every Stock Goes Up

Imagine, for a moment, a world where the odds are always stacked in your favor:

A world where every horse you bet on wins the race…

Every cast of your reel lands you the biggest fish…

And every putt you attempt goes in the hole.

Now imagine something even more…

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