Investing in One Lesson
by Mark Skousen
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Author: Mark SkousenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-19
ISBN: 1596985224
Number of pages: 175
Publisher: Capital Press
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Book Review: "Your first lesson if you want to begin investing"
Summary: 4 Stars
It would be pointless to repeat all the great things about this book, such as explaining basic consepts of investing by very simple way and explaining many reasons for market fluctuations. Other reviewers have already pointed out the good things in this book, so I took the contrarian task to write about the (few) negative ones.
I think that the title simply promises too much. Already familiar with his magnificent book on the business cycle, "Structure of Production" and his monograph on investing, "Ludwig von Mises goes to Wall street", I was very happy when this title was released. Maybe I simply expected too much, because I was a little disappointed after reading this work. As a Hayek-Rothbardian libertarian geek I expected something like how to recognise bull and bear markets from the Money Supply data :)
In this book there is unfortunately very little about gold and commodities which is strange because of the ongoing strong bull market in these asset classes and because Skousen himself was one of the first gold bugs (although very reasonable one for his credit) in the 1970's. Maybe this is because Skousen has affiliated very much with stock market optimists like Jeremy Siegel whose WisdomTree Dividend funds he recommends (for Skousen's credit he has been superbullish on commodities in his newsletter "Forecasts & Strategies").
Summa summarum: easy to read, logical, but definitely not the last word on the subject... A good starting place for beginners and a great reference guide, but on the other hand contains maybe too little about recognising actually what to buy and why, especially if you want to buy ordinary stocks and not Mutual Funds. If you love Skousen's earlier works (like I do) you will find this one valuable and easily accessible anyway.
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