CONTENTS
Book I The Safe Road to Prosperity
Section I The Dumb Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes with Their Money
The two very different roads to Safe Prosperity or Real Riches
The bad trade-offs of loving money more than God, family or country, and how to avoid them. How to have both money and true happiness.
Compound interest can be your best friend or your worst enemy. It is a two-edged sword—much more powerful than you thought.
Pretending to be rich by selling your future to buy the big house, the big SUV, the big home theater, the big boat, while living a life of quiet desperation when the monthly bills come in
5 How to Prosper by Earning 15 Percent in a 1-Percent World
In early 2003, interest rates on riskless investments fell to 1 percent or less, torpedoing compounding programs below the waterline. Savvy investors still compounded their portfolios at 10 percent or even 20 percent in investments that were almost as riskless.
6 Social Security, the Ponzi Chain Letter
Why you would be much better off by not counting on Social Security, the biggest scam in the known universe
Section II Blowing Your Money in the Investment Markets: The Turnpike to Financial Hell
Wall Street's conventional wisdom has been 180° wrong almost forever. Here's why, and how to tell.
8 The Bigger-Fool Theory of Investing
The stock market bubble of the late 1990s ...
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