Have you ever wondered what it would be like to read MSNBC business headlines for hours on end, for an entire century? Well, you can find out if you read John Boik’s How Legendary Traders Made Millions. Reading this book honestly brings about a sense…
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Isaac Netwon gave this profound quote centuries ago, but its spirit lives on today when we meet authors who truly add to our understanding of how the world works and…
There are many famous traders in the investment world, people who made a fortune in the blink of an eye by observing the market and making the right call at the right time. G.M. Loeb is unique among them in that he is the only…
I picked up William J. O’Neil’s How to Make Money in Stocks after another author stated that, after reading thousand s of other books in the stock trading genre, it was among the top 5. Reading it for myself, I can see why. Honed by…
“There’s nothing new in Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.” Thus opens Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a stock trading book authored by journalist…
Why the Rich are Getting Richer is the latest book in the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, and Kiyosaki continues giving readers nuggets of wisdom distilled from decades of thought about personal finance. Nuggets is an apt metaphor however, because like real gold the reader…
There are various schools of thought in the personal finance literature. Some focus on practicing frugal living, some on obtaining assets for passive income, and others still that emphasize stock portfolio balancing. One branch stands apart from the rest in that it focus on your…
Why does hard work come to nothing? This is a question that has plagued mankind since people realized that they could not have everything they wanted in the time allotted to them. It is also the topic of conversation between Bansir the chariot builder and…
As many frugal people know, going to the library is one of the best ways to save money. Not only can read the great classics for free, but you frequently find other good works that have fallen by the wayside for one reason or another.…