I am very glad that more and more of you are stopping by the Tacomob-website and I feel specially encouraged by all your positive E-mails. One of the more frequent questions asked has formed the header to this post and there are dozens of answers to it. Here are a few:

• Because you who reads my blog already know that investing for the long-term is the best thing that you can do with your money.
• Because there are so many experts out there to explain the technicalities of investing.  And they are much better at it than I ever could be.
• Because being a genius on paper (after listening and reading those experts out there) does not guarantee success.  We have to have the disposition to be successful investors.
• Because emotional faults will (not might!) lead us to be terrible investors.  Here is a great example of a powerful investing truth: “You can be brilliant on one hand but still fail ...

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