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Proponents of diversification extol the virtues of spreading your investments over different assets, sectors, and geography. The last part in this holy trinity – geography – is particularly captivating to a growing cadre of investors.

It has become very clear that investors who continue to ignore foreign stocks will be missing out on the greatest growth stories of the next couple of decades. The growth and diversification benefits are such that Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel says U.S.-only investors are practicing a "risky strategy."

This seems to be a great week for Boeing (NYSE: BA) bears.

In the hierarchy of Big Oil, I don't have to work up a sweat to place ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) overall in first place -- both qualitatively and quantitatively -- while for several years now, Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) has brought up the rear.

Achieving financial success doesn't require you to have the investing acumen of Warren Buffett. And you don’t have to be a trust fund baby to start securing your financial future.

Congressman Ron Paul is one quirky cat.

Because they understand there can be no sustainable domestic economic recovery that does not make room on the gravy train for the industrial base that built this nation, Fools have watched the steelmakers for signs that industrial demand may be on the mend.

Humorist and magician Robert Orben has a strict morning regimen: "Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the most successful people in the world. If I'm not there, I go to work!"

With all the volatility in the markets today, there's no shortage of market seers trying to call a bottom. Man of the Year Ben Bernanke called a bottom not once, but twice. Heck, even Keanu Reeves laid out what a world-ending market bottom looks like.

Back in September 2009, slack bottled water sales took a toll on blue-chips such as Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP). Fast-forward to the present, and the two beverage giants are still stuck in a drought -- but they're unlikely to accept their fate lying down.