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Summary: Handy little reference guide
Review: The WSJ Guides are great quick-reference guides. The authors explain topics clearly and distinctly without confusing or talking down to the reader. They also use lots of illustrations. I think you will find these books to be a good value.
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Summary: Excellent for learning the basics
Review: This book has served as an excellent text or my Basic Investing class taught at our local Adult/Community Education Program. It's easy reading, and colorful illustrations make it a wonderful accompanyment to a sometimes dull topic.
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Summary: a good reference
Review: This book is a good reference book, but it is very difficult to sit down and read through. If you really want to learn about stocks, it might be better to get a book that has more examples and real life applications. This book is great for looking up terms, but I wouldn't recommend it as a textbook for learning about investing.
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Summary: Stocks, Bonds and Investing Understandable!
Review: This book is a must have for those who want to learn how to become financially independant. It offers great explanations of the investment instruments, and gives actual examples of them. I use this book as a supplement to my college finance class. I think it's actually better written than the text we currently use. Bottom line: The book is well written and illustrated, easy to understand and yet is very informative.
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Summary: Excellent basics
Review: This book is excellent for learning the basic concepts in investing and finance. If you would like to iniciate in this area, i recommend this book as an entry door with the basics.
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Summary: Excellent -- for what it is!
Review: This book is VERY BASIC, and many of the reviewers took points off for that. If you know almost nothing about how banks work, what inflation is, how to understand the details of the business section of the newspaper, etc. This book will teach you. If you want to know how to get rich by investing, this is not the book for you (nor does it claim to be.)For that, I recommend reading Robert Kiyosaki's entire library.
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Summary: Excellent -- for what it is!
Review: This book is VERY BASIC, and many of the reviewers took points off for that. If you know almost nothing about how banks work, what inflation is, how to understand the details of the business section of the newspaper, etc. This book will teach you. If you want to know how to get rich by investing, this is not the book for you (nor does it claim to be.) For that, I recommend reading Robert Kiyosaki's entire library.
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Summary: If you were raised in a cave this book has lots to teach you
Review: This book should be given a pass. It covers items so basic that one would have to have been raised in a cave to not know 90+% of what is covered. I was very disappointed.
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Summary: Not an applicable book
Review: This book shows a reader what investing is about but this wasn't the type of book I was looking for. I was actually looking for a book that shows how to invest excellently in the stock market. I think the authors of this book didn't want to dissappoint certain investing approaches, thus didn't give their opinions on what type of investing is a way to go. Rather, they just showed what investing was about. If you want a book to improve your investing skills, don't buy this. But if you want a book just to understand investing, buy it.Personally, I'd rather have a book that shows the outlined techniques that show how to apply the information rather than to just understand the broad spectrum of it.
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Summary: A great crash course and quick reference
Review: This guide is a wonderful book to give you an overview of money and investing and how it works, without all the financial theory seen in so many books. A practical guide of how to invest? No. But how can you make correct decisions without understanding what various types of bonds are, or how to read the charts of information available in the newspaper or on-line. Investing is another language, and this book is your primer. Read this to get an understanding of investing, and then move on to the advice books, using this one as a reference when things become confusing. A great introduction to a complicated and important topic.
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