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Summary: Mop up the dragon's teeth sown by wall street.
Review: If you are a novice investor this could be your Bible; if you are a regular investor, this can easily be a reference book. After reading (and actually understanding!) the pages in this colorful pithy book, one can no longer confuse PE ratios and bonds with Peewee Herman or James Bond. The examples in the book are more compelling than any number of verbiage that I have read on this topic. While this is not an advice or a hype kind of a book, it will certainly motivate you to reevaluate you current investment portfolio. (Don't worry, you don't need to know what a portfolio is, in order to get the maximum out of this book.
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Summary: The Best
Review: If you are new to investing and need a simple primer, read this book. It's well organized and written. Those that have invested for a while will find this book simplistic. Nevertheless, I think every beginning investor should get a copy and read it.
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Summary: Good for beginner investors
Review: If you are new to investing and need a simple primer, read this book. It's well organized and written. Those that have invested for a while will find this book simplistic. Nevertheless, I think every beginning investor should get a copy and read it.
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Summary: Extremely useful for the amateur investor who needs a primer
Review: If you, like me, are getting started in the wonderful world of investing, this is a book that you need to get. It covers in very simple-to-understand language everything that investing entails from the perspective of the Wall Stree Journal, i.e. if you were to get into and/or follow investments using WSJ as a tool, and what a tool it certainly is. The material is nicely laid out in five sections, all of which can be covered without any specific order, depending on the type of information you're looking for: they also can be read linearly, in order to get a better understanding of the complete picture. The sections are:
-Money: allows you to better understand what money really stands for, the cycle of money, the role of the Fed in regulating the economy, etc.
-Stocks: from what they are, how they "look" like, to how the market works and what cycles characterize it, how to evaluate companies, etc.
-Bonds: same thing, but applied to bonds.
-Mutual Funds: "putting it all together."
-Futures and Options: the higher end of investment. This book, which also will not take too much time to process, contains a world of wisdom if you're serious about investing, or if you just want to better understand money and investing. Perhaps, if you're not convinced now, after you read it, you might end up more interested in investing, somthing which all of us should in one way or another do!
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS SPLENDID FOR BEGINNERS!
Review: Im 20 years old university student. My major is business and I read this book when i was freshman in university(In my 1.Semester)Firstly I have to say that this book explains all basic economics terms and where these terms came from.Some pictures in this book which are so old really affected me so much.. If you want to have some general informations about economics and business You must READ this book!
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Summary: Great place to start for knowledge on investing!
Review: The book was clear and easy to understand. It can make a non-financial person a true pro! I recommend it!
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Summary: OVERALL, A FINE MONETARY GUIDE
Review: The entire five sections of this book are loaded with rich financial information. They are well-illustrated too! In fact, the only correction I think that the authors should make is to expand the information a little bit.
At just 160 pages, I felt that a lot of important issues were overtly summarized. Though useful, the ubiquitous pictorial illustrations consumed a lot of space. (Potential) investors are no kindergarten kids, and I suggest that in their next review/edition, the authors should replace most of these pics with write-ups. Readers enjoy the gists more!
Well, it remains a fine book overall.
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Summary: Smart, Colorful, Financial Guide
Review: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing opens the world, in plain and everyday english, of the financial markets. Written for the layman, not for experts, the Guide is divided in five Parts; Money, Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Fundns and Futures and Options and begins with the history of money, the economic cycle, inflation, and the Federal Reserve and then goes on showing through colorful graphics, how the markets work, the meaning of financial trends and indicators and what you need to know when making your own investment. An excellent Guide that will initiate the reader into the complex world of Money and Investing.
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Summary: A good, easy-to-read explanation of the financial world
Review: The Wall Street Journal is, bar none, the best financial paper in the country, but the "Guide to Understanding Money & Investing" is written in a very differnt and interesting manner: the information in it is top-notch, but there are pictures and drawings throughout it, many of which make the book seem like it should be in a junior high social studies class. Despite its physical appearance, the book makes an excellent effort at explaining the stock markets, world currencies, bonds, futures & options, and much more. It is easy for many people to simply dismiss the global economy as being something that they'd rather not be concerned with, but when you examine it closely, the world of finance may be one of the most complex creations ever made by man. The "Guide to Understanding Money & Investing" shrinks that world down into one that can be understood, and by the end of the book, you'll realize just how smart the people on Wall Street are - and just how much closer you are to their level of knowledge. This is not a book that is meant to be read in one sitting; it may be better used as a reference. An excellent addition to any investor's library.
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Summary: A good, easy-to-read explanation of the financial world
Review: The Wall Street Journal is, bar none, the best financial paper in the country, but the "Guide to Understanding Money & Investing" is written in a very differnt and interesting manner: the information in it is top-notch, but there are pictures and drawings throughout it, many of which make the book seem like it should be in a junior high social studies class. Despite its physical appearance, the book makes an excellent effort at explaining the stock markets, world currencies, bonds, futures & options, and much more. It is easy for many people to simply dismiss the global economy as being something that they'd rather not be concerned with, but when you examine it closely, the world of finance may be one of the most complex creations ever made by man. The "Guide to Understanding Money & Investing" shrinks that world down into one that can be understood, and by the end of the book, you'll realize just how smart the people on Wall Street are - and just how much closer you are to their level of knowledge. This is not a book that is meant to be read in one sitting; it may be better used as a reference. An excellent addition to any investor's library.
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