How to really ruin your financial life and portfolio /
"Hilarious advice on what NOT to do with money, from financial funny man Ben Stein Everyone's searching for the secrets to financial success, but what about the best ways to lose money. fast?! In How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio, bestselling author, economist, financial...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- How to Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Trade Frequently; 2: Trade Foreign Exchange; 3: Believe in Your Heart That You Can Pick Stocks; 4: Assume That Recent Trends Will Continue Indefinitely; 5: Pour Continuer ... Sell When Things Look Bleak ... and Stay the Heck Out of the Market; 6: Know in Your Heart That This Time It's Different ... and Act on It; 7: Dividends Are for Spending-Not Investing-Just Ignore Them or Use Them to Buy Baubles; 8: Cash Is Garbage-Except When It's Not; 9: Put Your Money into a Hedge Fund.
- 10: Try Strategies That No One Else Has Ever Thought of ... You Can Out-Think the Market11: Use the Strategies That University Endowments and the Giant Players Use; 12: Commodities Are Calling ... Will You Answer the Phone?: Everything That Happens in Your Life Involves Commodities; 13: Go on Margin for Everything; 14: Sell Short; 15: Do Not Have a Plan for Your Investing or for Your Financial Life Generally; 16: Do It All Yourself; 17: Pay No Attention at All to Taxes; 18: Believe That Those People You See on TV Can Actually Tell the Future.
- 19: Do Not Start Even Thinking about Any of This until the Absolutely Last Moment20: Don't Believe That Any of This Matters Very Much, This Money Stuff; 21-49: How to Ruin Your Greatest Asset-You; Choose a Career with No Possibility of Advancement; Choose a Career with Little Chance for a Good Income; Choose Lots of Education over Lots of Pay; Show No Respect for Your Boss or Fellow Workers; Don't Learn Much about Your Job, Industry, or Employers ... Just Wing It; Do the Minimum Just to Get By; Show Up in Torn Jeans, Unshaven, Unwashed, Any Old Way You Feel Like Showing Up.
- Show No Regard for the TruthDisplay Open Contempt for Your Job, Your Fellow Workers, Your Boss, and Your Clients/Customers; Act Like You Are Morally Superior to Your Job and Your Colleagues; Do Not Be Punctual; Don't Hesitate to Have a Cocktail or Two at Lunch; Gossip and Sow Divisiveness at Work; Second-Guess Everyone around You at Work, Especially Your Boss; Threaten Your Boss and Employer with Litigation; Look for Grievances at Work; Make Sexual Advances to Anyone You Find Attractive; Make Excessive Phone Calls, Texts, and E-Mails on Company Time.
- Play Video Games at Work and Make Loud Noises as You DoMake and Keep Lots of Personal Appointments on Company Time; Listen to Your Colleagues' Conversations and Snoop on Their E-Mails; Talk about How Much Better Earlier Employers Were Than Your Current Employer; Brag about Your Great Family Connections; Pad Your Expense Account; Borrow Money from Your Fellow Employees and Don't Pay It Back; Question, Mock, and Belittle Your Tasks; Flirt with Your Colleagues' Significant Others; Proselytize at Work and Belittle Anyone Who Doesn't Share Your Political or Religious Beliefs.