In 1840, Singer Sewing Machines came up with a groundbreaking marketing strategy:

It started offering its sewing machines for a "dollar down, dollar a week."

The results were dramatic. Sales soared, as did consumer satisfaction. Other industries, from furniture to farm equipment, soon jumped on the bandwagon.

This was the…

Emmanuel Perrotin runs a fancy art gallery in Paris.

Expensive art isn’t exactly a mass-market product. So to increase his revenues, he also sells things like prints and books.

Still, I was surprised to learn that someone had offered to buy his business. And it’s not just anyone. It’s a…

What if you retired tomorrow — but your paychecks from work kept hitting your bank account, forever?

This isn’t just a dream.

Two million people from California are living this life already.

Today, I’ll tell you how they’re doing it…

And show you how to join them.

California Dreamin’

When…

Looking back on his life, billionaire “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban wishes he’d done his own dishes — even the pots and pans with tough stains and baked-on food.

To be fair, I don’t know this for a fact. But today, I’ll tell you:

• The reason I suspect he…

Can you imagine “cracking the code” of the lottery?

You’d make a fortune.

Well, that’s exactly what happened to Jerry Selbee from Evart, Michigan.

Jerry figured out how to legally beat the lottery, and he won $26 million.

Today, I’ll tell you how he did it. Then I’ll show you…

Ready for a crazy-but-true story? Here we go.

Last summer, a woman named Jessica Vincent was wandering through a Goodwill thrift store in Hanover County, Virginia.

At first, she saw nothing but old lamps, shirts, and shoes. But soon, a pretty glass vase caught her eye.

It was shaped like…

Have you fallen victim to the “60/40” strategy?

For decades, financial advisors have pounded the table about this investment approach. The idea was simple:

If the market was booming, your 60% allocation to stocks could help grow your wealth. And in a bust, your 40% allocation to bonds would help…

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain knew a thing or two about fine food and booze.

So when he said the following about a certain brand of bourbon, I paid attention:

“If God made bourbon, this is what he’d make.”  

Bourdain was so blown away by its quality that he tweeted…

Investors trade all sorts of things, from stocks and bonds to grains and pork bellies.

But thanks to a new stock exchange in Liechtenstein, now they can trade something new:

Bacon. 

Today I’ll tell you why trading Bacon can be so exciting and profitable...

And explain how you can get…

A story on Yahoo Finance caught my eye last week.

Watches of Switzerland (LSE: WoS), a British retailer focused on fancy watches, reported a blow-out quarter. Its sales soared to nearly half a billion dollars.

Given the turmoil in the markets and the anxiety of consumers, I found this odd.…