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Which brings me to the conclusion of Poor Richards advice if you are truly interested in diversified investments that will survive the Real Estate Investment failure, or a warmed over High Speed Dot.Com, or what ever they think of next to flip in yet-another-ponzi-scheme of I-win-you-loose. If you just have to invest in "the system" might I suggest:

* Go back to school to acquire an understanding of what the stock market is truly all about— investing in the long-term growth of a business.

* Dust off online tools that show what an actual PE looks like. Don't know the term, then get a ticket to Loss Vegas. Stock companies used to be formed to build something, and monopolies were controlled to protect the right of individual investors.

* Understand that while the Internet has promotions as the London Prime Bank Schemes, and Princes of Nigeria offering millions in return for almost nothing, there is truth on the Internet (unlike paid for, or corporate controlled, broadcasting and publishing) that will get to the heart of the matter. From personal experience type into an Information Age win-win-win Goggle search query the pump and dump "Aztec Mining," or Scott Tobia, and then go to www.Property-Prospect-Showcase.com, to see what happened to a valid proposition that ran into SEC indifference favoring exploiters.