 | | Andy Snyder | We've always wondered what it'd be like if a small town had a bad lot of teachers. Think about it. Way back when we were in school, we had a lousy history teacher. He was a drunk who read the answers aloud during tests. The longer students took to answer the questions, the more answers he gave away. He did it this way for years. The same curriculum, the same half-hearted teaching method... the same results. He pumped out 30 students a year for 25 straight years - all of them with a lousy knowledge of American history. He might as well have poisoned the water. [5G Megastock Trades Under SECRET Name ] The school created two types of graduates - those who had the apathetic drunk and were lousy historians... and those who had the strict curmudgeon and were bored yet competent historians. But what if that crummy history teacher hadn't been alone? What if there had been a math teacher just like him across the hall? And a lousy civics teacher beside him? We'd be in trouble... or, rather, the folks in that poor, uneducated town would be in trouble. The system is supposed to find stuff like this and fix it. But after a while, dare we say it, the folks who ran the system would be too dumb to know that anything was wrong. (Gulp... don't look around.) Generation after generation of kids would enter the real world believing the same few things... the same myths... and the same lies. It'd be trouble. But as we look around these days, we can't help but wonder whether the problem isn't bigger than a few bad schools here and there. We can't help but think we're all part of a system gone wild. Lousy Teaching Take your health, for instance. We've all joked about the many studies on eggs. One week, they're bad for us. The next week, it's just the yolk that'll kill us. A week after that, the nation is convinced that we should eat every egg we see. Why is that? Why are we such a fickle lot? Simple. We've got a lousy, lazy teacher. Did you know that there have been hundreds of studies on eggs and their relationship to our health and, more specifically, our cholesterol? Many of these studies come to the same conclusion. Some show some important variances, though. But you've likely never been told about 90% of those variances. That's because what we learn is determined more by who reports a study than what that study reveals. It all depends on the quality of our teacher. There's no doubt that we live in an information age. But the quality of that information is rarely as high as it should be. And what's worse, the speed at which bad information flows has never been faster. For sure, the system we rely on today is an absolute technical marvel. An earthquake can shake the ground in a remote part of Indonesia... and folks in Bismarck, North Dakota, can learn about it just three minutes later. It's amazing. You certainly remember when the nation watched a major attack on our soil unfold in real time. Most folks will never forget where they were when they first learned of the 9/11 terror attacks... nor will they forget who broke the news to them. That's the thing, though. While there's a lot we don't understand about the human brain, it certainly has its simplicities... like "anchoring bias." This is dangerous. But it's been proven that we stubbornly remember the first thing we learn about something - whether it's right or wrong. It's why so many folks have a hard time recalling the true chain of events on that bright and sunny September day more than 20 years ago. And it's why some folks swear by eggs while others have sworn off them. We believe what we're told first... and we stick with it even if the news evolves and the facts change. Critical Thinking As someone who has made a career out of busting myths and sharing critical know-how, we know the problem well. It's a tough obstacle and a formidable foe. But seeing the effects of this phenomenon time and time again has also become a great blessing. As they say, it's good to know your enemy. If we know that our history teacher is a dope who has a job only because of a strong union... or that the nightly news tells only half the story... well, then we know what we're up against. We're biased, to be sure. But we say nowhere is this phenomenon more prevalent than in the world of investing. The teachers aren't liars. They're just lazy. They blindly follow research done by folks who came a couple of generations before them. The data has changed. The variables have shifted. And yet they continue to pull the same textbooks off the shelf and lecture as if it were still 1962. If you're listening to them, it's costing you money. That's why we focus so tightly on what's new in investing... like security tokens, crypto and breakdowns in the interest rate narrative. We must break from the traditional realm and use recent data, true-world analytics and some critical thinking to take a fresh look at what it means to invest in an environment where news is instantaneous and milliseconds count. Some investors will find the ideas we must understand overly complex. Others will find them quite simple. We say it all depends on your teacher... and who you learned from first. This is not a time to be an uneducated investor. It'll cost you more than you know. Be well, Andy If the U.S. actually slides further into economic chaos... with too-high inflation, reckless borrowing, a centralized currency, additional bureaucratic regulation and an impoverishing working class (coupled with an affluent ruling class)... what might people do to adapt? And to survive? Joel has the answer here... Peabody Award-winning journalist Bill Tucker sat down with a reclusive multimillionaire trader... 858 miles OUTSIDE of Wall Street... to discuss a revolutionary new trading strategy that involves... one ticker... one trade... every week. The fast-hitting profit potential is extraordinary. Learn more here. AI is transforming education. While teachers and professors battle it out with students over term papers written by ChatGPT... the technology is having a huge impact on the sector. And education companies that figure out how to harness its power stand to benefit greatly. Like this week's Stock of the Week from Alpesh. Click here or on the image below to check it out. Want more content like this? | | | | | Andy Snyder Andy Snyder is an American author, investor and serial entrepreneur. He cut his teeth at an esteemed financial firm with nearly $100 billion in assets under management. Andy and his ideas have been featured on Fox News, on countless radio stations, and in numerous print and online outlets. He's been a keynote speaker and panelist at events all over the world, from four-star ballrooms to Capitol hearing rooms. | | | | 
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