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[FONT color=#00007f]Personal Confession:[/FONT]
I've never learned anything that I didn't already know, or figured out a way to make money from reading fool.com's articles.
Maybe it's just me, but I get the impression that unless you're paying them to send you direct buy/sell recommendations, they have a dozen or two of these articles they publish on a daily basis, and they say next to nothing at all in them!
Sometimes they rehash what happened in the past, sometimes they brag about how they had already recommended a winning stock a few months back in one of their paid subscriptions (and of course by then it's too late to get in on the action) but that's it. You keep reading and reading and reading, and you get nowhere!
But then perhaps that's the belief they're trying to instill in their readers: "No matter how much you read, this is difficult stuff, you can't figure it out on your own, so better pay us and let us make you rich, otherwise you'll just keep on wasting your time."
Remember, this is just a very subjective observation. So YMMV - your milage might vary.