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Sam Taube
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How I Think About Money“Life comes at you fast. If you don't save and invest, you might not have enough money for it.”
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Sam Taube writes about investing for NerdWallet. He has covered investing and financial news since earning his economics degree from the University of Maryland in 2016. Sam has previously written for Investopedia, Benzinga, Seeking Alpha, Wealth Daily and Investment U, and has worked as an editor for Investment U, Wealth Daily and Haven Investment Letter. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Contrarian Investing: Strategizing With Cheap Stocks To Grow Money | NerdWallet
Contrarian investing is going against the majority in a bet that the market is wrong about a company. Andy Rosen and Sam Taube break down the effective way to do contrarian investing: from using evidence to make your decisions and having an exit strategy should an investment go bad.