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1. Dear Amazon Customer, I have just browsed through The Motley FOOL 2000 Calendar but I know it is a funny, educational and interesting calender. It is cool because it is filled with humorous market wisdom good for beginner and advanced investors.



2. The Motley Fool 2000 Calendar is very enjoyable. Tom and David Gardner give a fun and meaningful investment tip each day of the year. I especially like their humor and down to earth approach. Please realize that this is a desktop calendar not a wall calender. It is the type that you will remove the page after the day is over.



3. I will brief with my review. I pretty much have to echo the previous two reviews about this Calendar. I bought the FOOL calendar last year(1999)and so I could not wait to but the NEW one. It's great! Thank you David & Tom Gardner, again.

   In contrast to last years calendar, In particular I admire how they changed the layout of the script. What I mean is that the daily script on this years(2000) calendar is printed in an ACROSS left to right format, instead of TOP to BOTTOM format like a newspaper column, like the one from 1999. In short, even though were are only 8 days into this new year it is still enjoyable and easier on the eyes to read. In addition to being great everyday practical financial advance. I am not into buying calendars, but I just had to have this one. This more than likely will be am annual purchase for me. I highly recommend this calendar as a great gift for new investors of ALL ages. It makes a great Christmas Stocking Stuffer too. Thanks Dave & Tom. Folly Forever!




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5 comments about The Foolish Four: How to Crush Your Mutual Funds in 15 Minutes a Year.

1. There's not a ton of new content here that you can't find elsewhere, but this book is a great beginner's guide to investing in the Dow Dividend strategy.



2. I didn't actually buy this book but I read borrowed it from a friend who wanted to know what I thought of it.

   The book is very dangerous because it attempts to show how past results of a pretty obscure formula gave fantastic returns for the last 30 years. What it fails to mention is that none of the methods shown in the book have produced Dow beating results since they were published.

   One reason that the Motley Fool keeps coming up with new variations is that the old ones don't seem to work very well after they have been discovered.

   Anyone reading thinking about this book should skip it and take the other main piece of advice from the Motley Fool and invest in an index fund.




3. I'm a frequent reader of the Motley Fool's website, and a former investor in this strategy. Many of the other reviews are right--there's nothing new to Dow Investing. I first saw some of the ideas in this book ten years ago in Beating the Dow, by Michael O'Higgins, whom the Gardners graciously acknowledge. Both O'Higgins and the Motley Fool do a great job of demystifying investing.

   What isn't so great is that in recent years, this strategy has fallen far short of its promises. The Motley Fool's site has a message board dedicated to this style of investing (formerly called Dogs of the Dow, Dow High-Yield Investing, etc.) and lately, the arguments there are _raging_. On the one side are the theory's ne'er-doubting supporters; on the other, those who, having blindly invested in the theory and lost, are now adamantly opposed to it. Meanwhile, the Gardner brothers, the authors of this book and originators of the Motley Fool, have sold their Foolish Four portfolio and invested the money elsewhere. I'll let that sink in...the bottom line is that this is a method of finding down and out value stocks, which doesn't suit the kind of growth market we've known for the last half decade. Even with the current bear market, over the last five years many tech stocks, although hurting, have still outperformed the Foolish Four.

   Which is not to say that the theory doesn't have merit; the book consists of a simple theory that makes sense. It might be outdated, or it may just be currently out of favor. Whichever it is, I would view the enthusiastic claims of the Gardners with a critical eye. And above all, don't invest blindly in this strategy without knowing the risks. Lastly, if you want to see what the Motley Fool is all about, may I recommend The Motley Fool Investment Workbook.




4. A word to any further readers who come along this. The Fools have now abandoned this investment approach, which they so cockily and vociferously expounded for many years. Although the strategy still has its uses, and they are to be commended for their honesty in abandoning it, they no longer advocate it. Like so many reviewers have wrote in criticism of other Fool books, the Gardners tend to be overcome by hyperbole in their writing, and it seems they did not do enough statistical research to warrant the claims they've been making all along with regards to Foolish Four investing.

   The Fools are overall really good, and have some great ideas, but this book is now outdated. Take what they say with a grain of salt, adapt it to your own thoughts (and to their credit, this is what they advocate, although it IS easy to overlook this in their soaring prose, laden with outlandish statements), and the Fools definitely serve a purpose.




5. The authors on Motley Fool.com do not hold the beliefs in this book. I like the Motley Fool but I know this foolish four stock picks has been droped by the two founders. I recommend the Motley Fool because they admit mistakes. At one time the foolish four stocks were good picks. This last year the foolish four stocks were losers.

2 comments about The Motley Fool's Investment Tax Guide 2000: Smart Tax Strategies for Investors.

1. This book is worth reading cover-to-cover to learn what you need to know before filing your taxes, and it's also a handy reference that can be used to answer specific questions (I've used it for both). The examples are humorous and clear, and the book does a good job of anticipating what questions will come to mind as you prepare for your tax filing. If your tax situation is getting complicated because of your investments, this book should really help.



2. This is the only Tax Book Ive ever read that didnt put me to sleep. Easy to read, lots of great tax advice and lots of humor to keep it interesting. If your an investor, I highly recommend this book. It could save you thousands of dollars!