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S E32: The Financial Sector - Bonds, Stocks and Shares - should you or shouldn't you?

Think Like An Economist

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Why You Shouldn't Pay Someone to Pick Stocks

Most humans think they can, because we're fallible. Orlando the cat picked stocks by throwing his toy mouse on to a grid with numbers which represented different companies. At the end of the year, orlando's portfolio made 500 forty two pounds in profits - while professional investers made only a hundred and 76 pounds.

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