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The Motley Fool® mf110224co.qxd:Layout 1 2/16/11 4:31 PM Page 1 What Is This Thing Called Ask the Fool The Motley Fool? ® Remember Shakespeare? Remember “As You Like It”? Fund Losses In Elizabethan days, Fools were the only people who could get away with telling the Can I lose all of my money truth to the King or Queen. The Motley Fool The Motley Fool tells the truth about invest- Qin a mutual fund? — G.K., ing, and hopes you’ll laugh all Norwalk, Conn. To Educate, Amuse & Enrich the way to the bank. While some stocks can and Fool’s School rooms above the first floor tend to My Dumbest Investment The Motley Fool Take A do fall to zero, mutual funds be safer. You needn’t buy insurance rarely do, since they contain many Save Travel when you rent a car, as your credit When There’s One … Lockheed Martin’s different holdings. (Most stocks Dollars Online card or your own car insurance may aren’t huge gambles, though: If offer that. 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Hotel www.travel.state.gov. Bon voyage! troubles very well. In 2008, Fried- E.M., Goshen, Ind. man’s CEO was convicted of secu- gapore, very interested in the F-35. rities fraud, mail fraud and partici- The moral of this story? Not at all. You must factor pation in accounting fraud. Patience, grasshopper. Don’t fret A in the number of existing Name That Company Do you have an embarrassing Pentagon budget cuts. Lockheed’s only getting better with time. This shares to get an idea of a com- lesson learned the hard way? pany’s size. If the Free Range I was born in a California garage company has a hand in everything Boil it down to 100 words (or President Eisenhower ever warned Onion Co. (Ticker: BULBZ) in 1945, and my first products were less) and send it to The Motley Fool c/o My you about the military-industrial has a stock price of $10, for picture frames. Today I’m the world’s Dumbest Investment. 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I’ve offered paid vacations since 1900 and look at General Electric, Safeway My Barbie debuted in 1959 and my Hot Wheels introduced profit sharing for all in 1917. I removed chlorofluorocarbons from and Ethan Allen. All were recently my aerosol products three years before the U.S. mandate. I donate 5 per- in 1968. I bought Fisher-Price in 1993 and Tyco cent of pre-tax profits to charitable causes and have won awards for social trading for around $21 per share, Toys in 1997, and sold The Learning Company in and environmental responsibility. Frank Lloyd Wright designed several of my but their market caps were, respec- buildings. Who am I? (Answer: SC Johnson) tively, $219 billion, $8 billion and 2000. I’m working with THQ to develop video $640 million. games based on my toys. Who am I? Write to Us! Send questions for Ask the Fool, Dumbest (or Smartest) Investments (up to 100 words), and your Trivia entries Got a question for the Fool? Send it in Know the answer? 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