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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor

Spencer Jakab

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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor

by Spencer Jakab
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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor
Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor

Uncover investing fallacies, improve financial outcomes.

If you've ever wondered why your investments seem to be running in circles, Spencer Jakab's "Heads I Win, Tails I Win" could be the light in the financial fog you've been searching for. Jakab doesn't just rehash typical investing advice; he delves into the common pitfalls and shows you practical strategies to actually get ahead. Crack this book open to begin navigating the markets with a much clearer map.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor

by Spencer Jakab
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ISBN: 9780399563201
Author: Spencer Jakab
Publisher: Portfolio
Date of Publication: 2016-07-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Economics, Personal Development, Business
Related Topics: Money, Business, Self Help, Personal Development, Finance, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 282 readers)

Description

The Wall Street Journal's investing columnist explains why you're deluded about your personal investing returns. Garrison Keillor described Lake Wobegon as the town where all the children are above average. Now Spencer Jakab introduces us to Lake Moneybegone, where all the women are wise, all the men are hard-working, and all the investors are below average. It's a big place--almost everyone from teachers to doctors to bankers and even most fund managers live here. Since leaving his job as a top-rated stock analyst to become an investing columnist, Jakab has watched his readers make the same bad decisions again and again. Jakab looks at all the typical advice, from the clearly risky to the seemingly safe, to show you how various strategies are undermining even the most savvy investor's returns. The paths that lead to a seven figure nest egg are surprisingly few, but he reveals reliable strategies that can multiply a typical retirement saver's nest egg fourfold or more. Jakab combines wise storytelling with a knack for doing the math on complicated ideas to explain why you shouldn't buy Apple, or care about tomorrow's big IPO, or even try to act on the belief that a recession is around the corner. He also explains why you should never trust a World Cup predicting octopus, and why you shouldn't invest in companies with an X or Z in their names--information more useful than it sounds, and every bit as fun. His core audience? Readers who fall somewhere in the gap between "401(k)s for Dummies" and "Advanced Microeconomics." Whatever your level of expertise, though, a tour of Jakab's Lake Moneybegone will be entertaining and almost certainly profitable too.
 

Uncover investing fallacies, improve financial outcomes.

If you've ever wondered why your investments seem to be running in circles, Spencer Jakab's "Heads I Win, Tails I Win" could be the light in the financial fog you've been searching for. Jakab doesn't just rehash typical investing advice; he delves into the common pitfalls and shows you practical strategies to actually get ahead. Crack this book open to begin navigating the markets with a much clearer map.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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