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There are “debt-free” people among us – how do they do it?
1) They say no to smaller expenses which can add up to big savings. For example, replace an expensive dinner in a fancy restaurant with a potluck dinner with friends, or meet up with friends for a walk in the park instead…
Market Sense and Nonsense by Jack D. Schwager – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Schwager takes aim at the most perniciously pervasive academic precepts, money management canards, market myths, and investor errors. Like so many ducks in a shooting gallery, Schwager picks them off, one at a time, revealing the truth about many of…
How we know what isn’t so by Thomas Gilovich – Executive Summary & Key Messages
The tendency to find order to ambiguous stimuli is built into the cognitive machinery we use to understand the world. That predisposition to impose order can be so automatic and so unchecked that we often end up believing in the…
The Origin of Financial Crises by George Cooper (October 2008) – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Two main subjects: Why markets for goods and services tend toward equilibrium, but financial markets do not. Why central banks are useful and what they should do (which they currently don’t). Breaking the 170 page book into nine chapters, Cooper…
Full of Bull – Stephen T. McClellan (2010) – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Wall Street Analysts are bad at stock picking: Analysis of all sell and buy recommendations in 2003 showed that the portfolio with negatively viewed stocks gained 53.5% (over two years), more than 75 percentage points better than the market. Investing, contrary…
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Science journalist Ridley believes there is a reason to be optimistic about the human race and he defies the unprecedented economic pessimism he observes. The book is about the rapid and continuous change that human society experiences, unlike any other…
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Elder Shafir
Why having too little means so much. By scarcity, we mean having less than you feel you need. It forms a common chord across so many of society’s problems. The science of scarcity is not new. It is called Economics—which…
Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term…
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
The law of life is the law of belief. Belief can be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind. The master secret of the ages is the marvellous, miracle-working power found in my own subconscious mind. This is,…
Happy Money – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Happy Money – The Science of Smarter Spending by Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness if you…
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