A comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding financial options and the stock market by an author who describes...
In this debut investment manual, an experienced financial planner offers practical strategies for negotiating the stock market and building wealth.
Novice investors are frequently intimidated by the confusing world of stocks and bonds. This fear comes partly from a lack of familiarity with complex financial processes and institutions and partly from the fact that the stakes are so high for investors risking their hard-earned savings in a market that seems precarious and unpredictable. Demmert attempts to unravel this intricate web in a methodical and well-organized narrative that looks almost like a textbook for Stock Market 101. Beginning with “Fundamentals of Investing,” he defines basic terms, provides a brief and intriguing history of domestic and international financial crises, and supplies insights into “investor psychology.” In the hands of a less engaging narrator, this all might be pretty dull and overwhelming stuff, but the author uses a number of devices to effectively enliven his presentation. Interspersed among instructive sections—such as “How Money Grows,” “Investing Is a Competitive Sport,” and “Using Charts, Beta, and Science to Figure Out the Stop Loss Price”—are evocative graphics and informative charts and tables. He also sprinkles in provocative quotes from such diverse (and sometimes unlikely) experts on financial values as Gandhi, Ronald Reagan, and Yogi Berra. Throughout this detailed and instructive book, Demmert crystallizes his advice into 18 principles, clearly set off in boxes for easy reference. At the end, he delivers a seven-part recap of his investment tactics. In places, the book feels overformatted, and all the inserts make some pages confusing to follow. But the narrative is generally remarkably compelling. It is not a work for readers looking for a quick “idiot’s” guide but should be perfect for those seeking a more in-depth understanding of global financial forces and practical investment choices and strategies.
A comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding financial options and the stock market by an author who describes himself as “passionate about successful investing."Pub Date: Oct. 21, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9973357-1-2
Page Count: 280
Publisher: New Insights Press
Review Posted Online: Oct. 30, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 15, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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