Investment & Finance Thread Freepathon Special

Money.  Investing.  Freerepublic.  Here are the top 10 reasons that us FR investors want to participate in the current FReepathon:

10.   Gold, silver, stock indexes, and bond values are all cr@pping out these days anyway...

 9.    The FReerepublic is a proven and solid force for (among other things) sound national fiscal policy; we need that force stronger now more than ever.

 8     We benefit from these threads personally.   Equity as a legal doctrine thus requires our compensatory donations.

 7.    Economic realism: there's no free lunch.

 6.    Market realism: you get what you pay for.

 5.    Donations are necessary for continued maintenance/loss reduction of desired FR services.

 4.    Donations are a guaranteed adjunct to an individual investor's game plan.  These threads will either pay for themselves through info leading to profits or reduced setbacks (in which case a monthly donation is reasonable overhead) or if by chance what you pick up here is dumb then having donated enables you to request a cheerful refund.  [Note: "request" ≠ "receive"]

 3.    Hey, this place is fun!

 2.    This thread's been going on a year now.  Those of us that found this thread useful for money making will be able to consider donations when they itemize in Schedule B next April.

--and here's my favorite:

 1.    On the internet, when you're getting something you're not paying for, then you're not a customer.  You're a product.