Reviews for Investing for profit

The average rating for Investing for profit based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-17 00:00:00 Edith Clifford excellent. i've picked up a few "Finance for Dummies"-type books before, none of which worked because they assumed a certain level of basic comprehension. this book defines everything from the ground up, and somehow didn't make me feel like an idiot about it, either. there's a section on why investing is important, how to define your own goals, how you might reach them, and then individual chapters on bonds, mutual funds, stocks, and REITS. there are even a few additional chapters on actually spending your retirement, how to save for college funds, and selecting health care plans. best of all, there's a bunch of free worksheets on the book's website, so you can just enter your data and let the files do the work, OR you can visit any of the numerous external sites to navigate stock or fund performance, whether you should transfer your traditional IRA to a ROTH IRA, etc. etc. i originally checked this book out from the library, but it's a useful enough reference that i just purchased a copy of my own. highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-06 00:00:00 Simon Gottesman Pulled out 'The Shield' recently and re-read some sections - Bobbitt is an interesting character, a constitutional lawyer and historian. I heard him speak at the Stanford Law and Ethics Forum a few weeks ago on 'Terror and Consent' which is also the title of his new book. The 'Shield' is of door-stop dimensions, but it had (for me) great value. He traces the dynamic, evolutionary relationship between the internal, constitutional order of states and the external challenges of strategy and war, beginning in the 15th century He argues that the effectiveness of internal mechanisms of order is proven (or not) in the Darwinian arena of foreign affairs. For example the so called 'long war'- all the conflicts between 1914 and the Peace of Paris in 1990 were (in his terms) an epochal war between the constitutional orders of fascism,communism and democracy. We are now, according to Bobbitt, in the beginning phases of a new epochal war, the war on terror, the first in which it will not require a state to destroy a state and which will force constitutional changes to survive the challenge. Gotta love a big picture guy. But he could use a brevity focused editor. Recommended- but be prepared to skim!