The First Book of Investing, Fully Revised 3rd Edition: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Safely

The First Book of Investing, Fully Revised 3rd Edition: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Safely
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This really is the first book of investing.

Great overview for beginners

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A Good Place To Start When You Dont Have A Clue

A great book for anyone who knows nothing about investing!

The First Book of Investing, Fully Revised 3rd Edition: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Safely
Samuel Case
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In the revised second edition of The First Book of Investing: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Safely, financial advisor Samuel Case starts with a simple but substantial overview of today's major investment opportunities designed for readers who know absolutely nothing about the various alternatives available. He then guides the former novice through intermediate-level possibilities and higher-risk options with the aim of creating a portfolio that truly matches the investor's expertise and comfort level.

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The First Book You Need to Start Investing Wisely
You can make a solid investment decisions for a financially secure future—by investing as little as a dollar a day! The First Book of Investing shows you how to realize your financial potential—no matter how much you know about investing and how much money you have to work with. Inside you'll discover solid, easy-to-understand advice on how you can make the wisest investment decisions fo you and your family. In practical, friendly terms, experienced investment counselor Samuel Case answers all of your financial questions, including:
·How are stocks traded?
·What do brokers do?
·How can I get started in online investing?
·What is an IRA?
·What is a fixed-income investment?
·How does compound interest work?
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"[An] excellent guide for would-be investors."—Seattle Times

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This really is the first book of investing........2006-12-05

All I can say about this book is WOW!! Because too often when you read material pertaining to investing, it throws so much unfamiliar jargon and concepts at you. Too many sources assume you know the basics about investing.

This book makes no such assumptions. I've learned so much already, and I've only read half the book.

The only drawbacks as far as I can tell: #1-The book spends a lot of time in the beginning going into detail about what to do if you come into an inheritance. Only a few people out there fall into this category, and the author could have cut out a lot of this discussion, since it only pertains to a few. #2-There was nothing mentioned about IRA's, which I think are a popular investment option. It would have been nice if IRA's could have been covered.

Great overview for beginners.......2004-01-29

This book was great for laying out the basics of investing. Topics covered range from the safe staples like government bonds to risky speculations like futures and included less common investment ideas including rare coins and owning businesses. Each topic is presented simply but thoroughly in a style that isn't too technical and is encouraging towards first-time investors and women. Real-life examples are given for harder-to-understand investment concepts. The math involved is explained fully (though sometimes too thoroughly for those who are not completely math-challenged). As the title states, this book won't give you strategies to get-rich-quick or be able to pick the right stocks. What it will give you is a fairly objective guide to the investing world and the risks and rewards involved in different investment strategies as well as a "Model Portfolio." Not all the sections were applicable to me, but they were good references nonetheless. The only drawbacks I found were a skimpy and slightly out-of-date "Online Investment" section which was basically a click-by-click account of how to use the finance section of AOL (which may be helpful for some but not me), and occasional cheesy humor (which was forgivable). I didn't realize how much I had learned from this book until I found myself explaining to a coworker why her junk bond mutual fund was relatively riskier and more volatile. Overall, the book felt like a trustworthy, objective source for responsible investing.

Investing.......2003-08-29

The first book of Investing the fully revised 3rd edition. The Absolute beginner's guide to building weath safley. This book explains a beginners path toward building weath a finacial freedom. The book provides its readers with easy to read fact boxes that encourage readers to keep reading. This books target audience should be teens and young adults. The reading is relitvily easy and descriptive. I encourage anyone who wants to learn more about professions in stock broking or just anyone who wants to learn about the general financial world to read this book.

A Good Place To Start When You Dont Have A Clue.......2002-11-22

This book is 3 years old now as of this review I write, if it was up to date Id give it 5 stars...it still has LOTS of relevent and important information for today and tomorrow because the fact of the matter is is that the rules will always be the same for SMART and SAFE investing found in this book. There are many excellent resources and websites listed too that really help...if you are fed up living paycheck to paycheck, get going with this and take charge of your life...or would you rather live a life you always complain about that??

A great book for anyone who knows nothing about investing!.......2000-11-24

If mutual funds, stock options, and equities make your head spin, this book is for you. Case has written a book that is easy to read and understand yet remains information packed. Even after finishing the book, it makes an excellent reference. The first section is a logically organized tutorial into the wide world of investing. What I really like about this book is that it overlooks no investment. As a high school student short on cash, it was refreshing to read about how I can begin investing with as little as $50. The only problem I have with the book is Chapter 12 "Socially Responsible Investing." Case continually uses nuclear power as a market example that is not socially responsible. This is not totally accurate. The reason socially responsible funds don't invest in nuclear power is because often time by investing in nuclear power you also invest in fossil fuel utilities as well. Besdies Case's cynicism in Chapter 12, I loved this book.

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The beginnings of Psmith and vintage Wodehouse

Hilarious Antics and Pranks of Boarding School Scamps

Grounded Wodehouse

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The beginnings of Psmith and vintage Wodehouse.......2006-11-04

This book was originally published as two separate serials, _Jackson Junior_ and _The Lost Lambs_, and the connection between the two is not strong. The only continuing character is Mike Jackson, and the starting point for the second half is largely inconsistent with his characterization in the second. _Jackson Junior_ is a fairly typical early Wodehouse Wrykyn school story, with the usual weak plot about pointlessly misbehaving schoolboys mostly escaping their well-deserved punishment, though it's the best of the lot, with clearly-drawn characters and amusing incidents.

_The Lost Lambs_, however, is the start of the turning point in Wodehouse's career: in it he introduces his first great character, Psmith. The plot is still weak, and driven largely by lazy coincidences and by characters acting in ways they obviously wouldn't. But Psmith's attitude and dialogue show the first flashes of Wodehouse's mature style.

Hilarious Antics and Pranks of Boarding School Scamps.......2004-10-01

Most people who have read P.G. Wodehouse have focused on his Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories. In those books and short stories, the aristocratic bumblers often refer fondly back to their old school chums and the rollicking times they had while there. The Drones Club is often the starting site for trying to recreate those halcyon days. Occasionally, Bertie Wooster is called upon to interact with some school or another and those tales are often brilliantly funny as he climbs in and out of where he isn't supposed to be.

I recently read Plum Sauce, the excellent P.G. Wodehouse companion, and found that Mr. Wodehouse had also written a number of earlier books and stories based on school days. I wondered what they would be like.

An early offering was called Mike, from 1909. The book is now titled Mike and Psmith (pronounced "Smith" according to the book and the author). Psmith became a major character for Mr. Wodehouse in latter years, so this is his origin story. Psmith will remind you of a young Gally (who is often found in the Blandings stores).

The story begins simply enough. Young Mike Jackson is happily enjoying the end of his public school (that's a private school in the UK) education before heading off to Cambridge to start his university studies. He's about to become the captain of the Wrykyn cricket squad and is the team's star batter.

Life is good only briefly for young Mike, however. His father had warned him that another bad report about his academic performance and young Mike would be shipped off to another school. When that report arrives, he father packs him off to cricket and social Siberia, Sedleigh.

Mike vows to be as indolent as ever in his academics and to refuse to involve himself in cricket for such a lowly place. He's joined in this attitude by Psmith who arrives as a recently expelled new student at about the same time. The two find that they're from the same part of England and social class, and quickly team up against those whom they see as little more than mildly amusing bumpkins.

Their attitudes allow them to be quite effective in pulling the wool over the eyes of his housemaster who is easily manipulated in many amusing ways. Those same attitudes put both young men right in the sights of an increasingly angry and vengeful form master who supervises their academic performance.

The conflict continually escalates in humorous ways that had me happily laughing aloud on many pages. I also enjoyed the story because it brought back memories of many wonderful pranks that I helped play when I was in high school.

All of the conflicts are eventually resolved in typically unexpected and very ironic ways.

Now, for those who don't know a cricket pitch from a bocce court, I suggest that you not be inhibited by that sport's appearance in this book. You'll get the general idea, and that's all you really need.

If you would like to have some specific ideas of what Mr. Wodehouse meant by Bertie's relations with all of his old school chums, be sure to read Mike and Psmith. It's a corker!

Grounded Wodehouse.......2000-11-14

If you pick up Mike and Psmith and expect it to be like the wacky comedies that Wodehouse composed in the 20s and 30s, you might be slighted disappointed. This is early Wodehouse, a Wodehouse concerned with school masters, ragging (an expression for creating mischief) and especially cricket. It is also a more grounded Wodehouse, a novel where the comedy is more subtle, a novel where the characters are not quite so flighty. This is also Wodehouse at his least complex. This is not the novel that shows his mastery of the convulted plot, where every word spoken and deed done entagles our heros and heroines in further trouble.

This said, I need to quickly confirm that Mike and Psmith is a wonderful novel. It still has a freshness and innocence about it that is highly appealing. In this day and age, of rampant murders and unclear elections, Mike and Psmith is as sunny and cheerful a book as you are likely to find. And just to show you that I read Mike and Psmith with my eyes wide open, I have to state that my early comments are not intended as criticism but as a compliment. The subtlety is the very reason why this novel is so great! It is his art in creating a scene or a character and putting in the interesting setting of Sedleigh that Wodehouse shows why so many refer to him as the Master.

Mike and Psmith is not the funniest book Wodehouse wrote, but it does have many incredible scenes, especially Mr. Downing's search for the paint splashed shoe. I agree with the other reviewers that this is the high point of the book. I think readers will find a lot to enjoy in this novel. It is an escape to a world not that far removed for our own but placed in a time that we will never see again. This novel truly scores a century!

hysterical.......2000-07-24

This is so, so completely funny. I love this book. I have read it so many times and it's still funny. It's about this two English boys at school. The school-story genre is fairly grim, I know, with all it's moralizing and weird relationships between students etc., but this is so completely funny. It's probably my favorite of all the Psmith books (although, Leave it to Psmith is fairly excellent as well).

Very enjoyable.......2000-04-21

I have to confess that I am a Wodehouse addict. I read the predecessor to this book (Mike at Wrykyn) when I was fifteen and had always wanted to read Mike and Psmith. Re. this book, Wodehouse had me in stitches most of the time - the portions relating to Mr. Downing are hilarious. Cricket is also a focus of this novel. If you are like me and miss the game, this will bring those school time memories flooding back.

For those who haven't read a Psmith novel before, I highly recommend them. It is said that Wodehouse created the Jeeves and Wooster characters as 2 spin-offs from Psmith and you can certainly see the connections! On the whole, another Wodehouse classic.

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