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...last to know when it comes to stocks. But their status at the bottom of the information food chain is changing, and quickly. "This is a revolution," says David Gardner, who with his brother Tom is responsible for starting the wildly popular online personal-investing forum called the Motley Fool. Located on America Online, the Fool (the name is inspired by a line in Shakespeare's As You Like It: "I met a fool i' the forest, a motley fool") has spearheaded a spectacular shift in the way investors' money is funneled into the stock market and challenged Wall Street...
...aren't money managers, but they are investors, and they use the power of online communication to spread their insights. They began investing in stocks at age 18, started an investment newsletter in 1993, and now, at the ripe old ages of 28 (Tom) and 30 (David), direct the Fool's daily operations from a small office in Alexandria, Virginia. The Fool's mission is to take some of the mystery out of the game by offering basic advice outside the Wall Street loop. The real action is on the Motley Fool electronic bulletin boards, where plugged-in investors trade...
Since starting its AOL forum in August 1994, the Fool's most notable accomplishment has been discovering a company called Iomega long before the wing tips in downtown Manhattan did. Iomega, based in Roy, Utah, makes devices for computers called Zip drives and Jaz drives that enable users to store massive amounts of information speedily, reliably and affordably. In early 1995, various Fools, as the participants call themselves, began posting news about the first Zips to hit the market. They soon put their money where their modems were and reaped the rewards. Many of the earliest posters on the Iomega...
...last stop.) Eight years in preparation, it contains 112 oils and 75 drawings and watercolors. The last Cezanne retrospective was held 60 years ago in Paris. In size, in scholarship, in the magnitude of its subject's achievement, this new one is a truly epic event. God help any fool who is not humbled...
...dominance which the Crimson's final statistics imply fool you--it wasn't easy...