Oil Investment Secrets: The Beverly Hillbilly Effect

The Beverly Hillbillies

Come and Listen to a Story…

In the early 1960s, the Ballad of Jed Clampett, theme music for TV’s wildly popular “The Beverly Hillbillies,” told the story of a “man named Jed,” who discovered oil literally bubbling up from the ground on his backwater Tennessee land. Next thing you know, the OK Oil Company paid the dirt-poor dirt-farmer $53 million for his property.

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The Real Ben Franklin: Pioneering Investment Strategist

Benjamin Franklin Investor

There were no hedge funds or money managers or investment bankers in the 1700s, at least no one specifically referred to by those titles. The world was a much different, harsher place. The business environment, or what there was of it, was in its infancy. So how is it that the son of a candle maker who received no schooling after the age of 10 went

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