I Fell for a Ponzi Scheme in My 20s. Here’s What It Taught Me About Investing. (Laura Adams)
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Laura Adams shares her experience with a Ponzi scheme in her 20s and the lessons it taught her about investing.
Getting burned on a bad investment early in life can do one of two things: swear you off investing forever, or teach you exactly what kind of investor you want to become. For Laura Adams, it did the latter. Host of the Money Girl podcast — one of the longest-running personal finance podcasts in the world, with more than 1,000 episodes — Adams grew up in Charleston, SC, in a household where money was never discussed. That silence may be exactly why she became obsessed with it. Her earlie...
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