A Cheat Sheet for Ed Easterling’s Unexpected Returns –Insight #1: The Intermediate Term is the Great Unknown for Most Investors There was a time when many investors focused […]
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The Myth of the Rational Market — A Fine Book Missing a Fine Conclusion
The Myth of the Rational Market, by Juston Fox, is an important book. It does a fine job of explaining the analytical mistakes made by efficient market proponents […]
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My Take on Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes — We Fear Being Too Alive. The book argues in its introduction (Page 26) that people are both too much like […]
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Why Your Money or Your Life Rocked the World
I remember the Saturday afternoon when I first read Your Money or Your Life, published in 1992 by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. I was desperate to make […]
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Work Less, Live More — The Retire Early Movement Grows Up
The book Work Less, Live More, authored by Bob Clyatt (Nolo, 2005), offers its reader a number of breakthrough insights on how to win financial freedom early in […]
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Why Stocks for the Long Run Is Wrong
I like the book Stocks for the Long Run. It is a book focused on long-term buy-and-hold investing. I think that long-term buy-and-hold investing is where it’s at. […]
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What You Must Know About Irrational Exuberance
All middle-class investors should read Robert Shiller’s book on Irrational Exuberance. It tells us things about how stocks work that are rarely reported on by less informed or […]
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This Book Saves Marriages — The Complete Tightwad Gazette
Woody Guthrie imprinted his “Mission Statement” on his guitar — “This Machine Kills Fascists,” it said. If Amy Dacyczyn were to follow Guthrie’s lead, she would need to […]