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Book Synopsis The Big Investment Lie by : Michael Edesess
Download or read book The Big Investment Lie written by Michael Edesess and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-14 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s account of how consumers are scammed by the investment advice industry, and how to avoid throwing your money away. The investment advice and management industry is built on fraud: the idea that professional advisors can predictably and consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments. The industry sells us on this lie using manipulative tactics that are studied, refined, Wall Street-minted, Madison Avenue-packaged—and extraordinarily effective. Here, Michael Edesess exposes the shocking truth that, in fact, behind the success of nearly every prosperous investment professional lies not the ability to procure higher rates of return on investment for his or her clients but the ability to procure astoundingly high fees from those clients and nothing more. Through fascinating and sometimes humorous anecdotes and straightforward explanations of investment theory and scientific evidence, Edesess reveals just how badly investors are being scammed by The Big Investment Lie. He examines how the master salespeople that make up the industry sell their cleverly concocted distortions of truth—to the tune of $200 billion a year—to unsuspecting consumers who swallow them hook, line, and sinker. He then shines a spotlight on the true cost of the industry’s useless advice, showing that a prudent independent investor, following a conservative strategy, can reap anywhere from forty percent to over one hundred percent more than an investor who falls for The Big Investment Lie. Detailing the Ten New Commandments for Smart Investing—practical advice for how, where, and when to invest your money to maximize wealth—The Big Investment Lie provides the guidance you need to secure your financial future without throwing your hard-earned money away on the fraudulent investment advice industry.
Book Synopsis The Big Investment Lie by : Michael Edesess
Download or read book The Big Investment Lie written by Michael Edesess and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No professional investing advice is good advice. This hard-hitting book proves it with indisputable facts drawn from scientific research and the author's own thirty-five years of experience in the investment industry. Michael Edesess exposes “The Big Investment Lie”: that an investor will gain by hiring professional advisors to beat the market. He proves that no professional investment advisor or manager has ever consistently and predictably beat market averages, not even Warren Buffett. While The Big Investment Lie allows an entire industry to prosper lavishly, investors invariably lose when they hire professional help. Once you know the truth, you'll want to adopt Edesess's Ten New Commandments for Smart Investing, simple rules you can follow to invest, get a profitable return, and avoid squandering any more of your hard-earned dollars on bogus expertise.
Download or read book Another Big Lie written by Tim Pagliara and published by Forbesbooks. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book, Another Big Lie, author Tim Pagliara details the decade-long fight over the government's role in regulating a safe and sound mortgage market. At the heart of the story is the contrarian bet investors made to buy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--government sponsored entities, GSEs--securities in the heat of the mortgage crisis in late 2008. This is the story of how a select group of GSE investors exposed the government's theft of billions of dollars from the American dream of homeownership. Madison opined in the Federalist papers that "If Men were Angels" we wouldn't need government. And yet, in Another Big Lie, Pagliara examines what happens when all three branches of government--executive, legislative, and judicial--fail, exposing the truth about the housing market, a corrupt legislative process in the Senate, and the various attempts that tried and failed to blame the financial crisis on the GSEs.
Book Synopsis Dividends Still Don't Lie by : Kelley Wright
Download or read book Dividends Still Don't Lie written by Kelley Wright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely follow-up to the bestselling classic Dividends Don't Lie In 1988 Geraldine Weiss wrote the classic Dividends Don't Lie, which focused on the Dividend-Yield Theory as a method of producing consistent gains in the stock market. Today, the approach of using the dividend yield to identify values in blue chip stocks still outperforms most investment methods on a risk-adjusted basis. Written by Kelley Wright, Managing Editor of Investment Quality Trends, with a new Foreword by Geraldine Weiss, this book teaches a value-based strategy to investing, one that uses a stock's dividend yield as the primary measure of value. Rather than emphasize the price cycles of a stock, the company's products, market strategy or other factors, this guide stresses dividend-yield patterns. Details a straightforward system of investing in stick-to-quality blue-chip stocks with reliable dividend histories Discusses how to buy and sell when dividend yields instruct you to do so Investors looking for safety and transparency will quickly discover how dividends offer the yields they desire With Dividends Still Don't Lie, you'll gain the confidence to make sophisticated stock market decisions and obtain solid value for your investment dollars.
Book Synopsis Dividends Don't Lie by : Geraldine Weiss
Download or read book Dividends Don't Lie written by Geraldine Weiss and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the straightforward system of investing in stick-to-quality blue-chip stocks with reliable dividend histories, investors will gain the confidence to make sophisticated stock market decisions and obtain solid value for their investment dollars.
Book Synopsis The 3 Simple Rules of Investing by : Michael Edesess
Download or read book The 3 Simple Rules of Investing written by Michael Edesess and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing your money can be stressful. And confusing and complicated advice from the financial industry just makes it harder. But as the authors of this clear, practical, and enlightening book—part financial guide, part exposé—prove, there are just three simple rules you need to follow and only a few investment products that are necessary for an ideal portfolio. That's it. And the authors dispense with all that “expert” advice by deftly debunking what they call investing's Seven Deadly Temptations. By embracing commonsense solutions and rejecting investments that seem enticing but are needlessly complex, overpriced, and risky, you'll put not only yourself in a stronger position but the entire economy as well.
Book Synopsis The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street by : John R. Talbott
Download or read book The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street written by John R. Talbott and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How strong was the American economy going into the present crisis? How strong will it be a year from now? How about five years from now? Investors and citizens around the world realize, as never before, that we were misled—lied to—about the stability of our financial system. But what now? John R. Talbott's ingenious new book, The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street, exposes the lies and then exposes us to the truth of what it will take to rebuild our economy. As a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Talbott knows firsthand how the financial system operates and what it will take to fix it. As the "oracle" who predicted the housing crisis in his 2003 book, The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, warned of a global banking crisis in his 2006 book, Sell Now, and called the election for Obama when the senator from Illinois was still the underdog in Obamanomics, Talbott' s revelations about how the Street and the economy really work are as clear-eyed and undeniable as his predictions and recommendations for our economic future are tough, sensible and exciting. We may ignore them at our own peril. What will people be talking about in years to come? To find out, read John Talbott now.
Download or read book Lying for Money written by Dan Davies and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field. The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds. Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what’s theirs. In Lying for Money, veteran regulatory economist and market analyst Dan Davies tells the story of fraud through a genealogy of financial malfeasance, including: the Great Salad Oil swindle, the Pigeon King International fraud, the fictional British colony of Poyais in South America, the Boston Ladies’ Deposit Company, the Portuguese Banknote Affair, Theranos, and the Bre-X scam. Davies brings new insights into these schemes and shows how all frauds, current and historical, belong to one of four categories (“long firm,” counterfeiting, control fraud, and market crimes) and operate on the same basic principles. The only elements that change are the victims, the scammers, and the terminology. Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyrinths of deceit and explains how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy.
Book Synopsis The Devil's Financial Dictionary by : Jason Zweig
Download or read book The Devil's Financial Dictionary written by Jason Zweig and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall Street The Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand. An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's financial markets, The Devil's Financial Dictionary delivers practical insights with a scorpion's sting. It cuts through the fads and fakery of Wall Street and clears a safe path for investors between euphoria and despair. Staying out of financial purgatory has never been this fun.
Book Synopsis The Investor Protector by : David P Meyer
Download or read book The Investor Protector written by David P Meyer and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years of work and a lifetime of savings. Many of us strive for these goals when we retire. No one can steal the years, but the money? The savings you earned to spend time with loved ones and live comfortably on your terms? Your savings could be gone instantly with one innocent error: trusting the wrong person to invest your money. It wasn't until David Meyer took on his first investment fraud case at twenty-eight that he truly understood the decimation caused by devious financial advisors. After winning a record-breaking jury verdict, David has been battling fraudulent financial advisors for more than two decades. Now, in The Investor Protector, he shares the stories of good people enduring unthinkable loss. These are stories of hard-earned success, unbelievable deceit, and avenging triumph. You'll learn not only how David has helped his clients regain their savings and peace of mind, but what you can do to protect yourself-and those you love-so the future looks as bright as you planned it.
Book Synopsis Buy, Lie, and Sell High by : Daniel Quinn Mills
Download or read book Buy, Lie, and Sell High written by Daniel Quinn Mills and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the role of the venture capitalists, investment banks and the Federal Reserve in the evolution of the internet "bubble". It also looks at what new companies and managers need to do to avoid the consequences of such "irrational exuberance" in the future.
Book Synopsis The Lies About Money by : Ric Edelman
Download or read book The Lies About Money written by Ric Edelman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth" comes this insider's view into how today's investment practices have become so misleading and manipulative that investors must take charge of their own finances.
Book Synopsis The Great White Lie by : Walt Bogdanich
Download or read book The Great White Lie written by Walt Bogdanich and published by Touchstone Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter takes an in-depth look at the mayhem, greed, and even murder in hospitals around the country. "Probably the best consumer's guide to hospital medicine ever written".--The Washington Post. Selected by USA Today and Business Week as one of the top 10 books of the year.
Download or read book Bad Blood written by John Carreyrou and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword covering her trial and sentencing, bringing the story to a close. “Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story] virtually to perfection.” —The New York Times Book Review In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees.
Download or read book Liar's Poker written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.
Download or read book Built on a Lie written by Owen Walker and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the most celebrated and successful British investor of his generation - but it was all built on a lie. Neil Woodford spent years beating the market; betting against the dot com bubble and the banks before the financial crash in 2008, making blockbuster returns for investors and earning himself a reputation of 'the man who made Middle England rich'. But, in 2019, Woodford's asset management company collapsed, trapping hundreds of thousands of rainy-day savers in his flagship fund and hanging £3.6 billion in the balance. In Built on a Lie, Financial Times reporter Owen Walker reveals the disastrous failings of Woodford, the greed at the heart of his operation and the full, jaw-dropping story of Europe's biggest investment scandal in a decade. 'Vital financial journalism with heart' Emma Barnett, broadcaster 'This is a must read!' Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats 'Reads like a rip roaring tale of a corporate high wire act' John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor 'Should be sold with a bottle of blood-pressure pills' Edward Lucas, The Time
Book Synopsis The Case for Long-Term Value Investing by : Jim Cullen
Download or read book The Case for Long-Term Value Investing written by Jim Cullen and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value investing moves in and out of favour, but the data doesn’t lie. It has always worked, and will continue to work — as long as investors apply a value discipline and invest for the long term. In The Case for Long-Term Value Investing, experienced Wall Street pro Jim Cullen presents the eye-opening data that backs this up, explaining how investors can use the value approach for successful investing today, as well as sharing a wealth of fascinating stories from his time on the Street. Discover: The true principles of value investing Jim’s stock-picking method in detail Inspiring case studies of successful value investments How to apply the value discipline through practical strategies. The Case for Long-Term Value Investing also includes a concise history of the last 100 years of market history — showing just how crazy the market can be — with a review of bear markets, recessions, bubbles, melt-ups, interest rates, and much, much more. The Case for Long-Term Value Investing is the ultimate introductory guide to how and why value investing works, how to understand the markets, and how to be a successful investor.
