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Gotta Know the Lingo, Vol. 8

April 18, 2026 — 02:39 pm EDT

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In this episode of Rule Breaker Investing, David Gardner returns with Volume 8 of Gotta Know the Lingo, welcoming Motley Fool analysts Alicia Alfiere, Amanda Kish, and Nick Sciple.

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David Gardner: Burn rate, asset location, inventory turnover, customer acquisition cost, spivy pop. Each of these represent intermediate-level terms that most serious investors know, and most people who are not serious investors do not know. I'm inviting on three serious investors this week, Motley Fool advisors and analysts all in order to help teach the rest of us some new terms, terms like the ones I let off with, each of which has been covered in the past episodes of this week's recurring series. Some simple, some more advanced, all terms you need to know. Drawn from investing and business, understanding these terms and the concepts behind them will enable you to become smarter about the game of investing smarter, which in my experience leads to happier and richer over time. Or maybe you already know these terms. In which case, we've got a scoring system. You can score yourself this week. It's Volume 8 of Gotta Know the Lingo, welcoming in Amanda Kish, Nick Sciple, and Alicia Alfiere to teach you and me this week only on Rule Breaker Investing.

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. It's Gotta Know the Lingo Volume 8. The purpose of this series is to look at some of the terms that you might hear about and not always fully understand from business, accounting, investing, sometimes technology as well. Some new oncoming terms to get you thinking about the language of investing, business, and sometimes life, to get you smarter about these concepts. We're about to do Volume 8. I'm going to be welcoming on Amanda, Nick, and Alicia to share three simple terms and three advanced terms this week. Before we start, let's talk again about our little scoring system for you for this series you're scoring us. We have six terms for you this week, six that we're going to share and illustrate for you at the end. After we present each of our six terms, I'm going to ask you, dear listener quietly, just to think, did I learn anything from these Fools? If you feel like you didn't learn anything for that given term, your five minutes or so were wasted by that particular term, the score would be zero because you learned zero, and we were zeros.

Now, if on the other hand, you thought that was helpful, maybe you did know the term, or hey, you knew the term, but we made you laugh. Give us a plus one. Finally, if, as Amanda, Nick, or Alicia present their terms with their illustrations, if you find yourself delighted, not just by the quality of the learning, but maybe you got to smile along with it, if you really enjoyed it, give us a plus two. That is the scoring system for Gotta Know the Lingo. Let's get started. Amanda Kish is The Motley Fool's financial planning team lead and works to bring a financial planning lens to The Fool's stock-focused guidance. Outside of the Fool, she's an actor and singer and frequently performs in community theater productions. Amanda, welcome back.

Amanda Kish: Tha