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100 1  Jakab, Spencer,|eauthor. 
245 10 Heads I win, tails I win :|bwhy smart investors fail and 
       how to tilt the odds in your favor /|cSpencer Jakab. 
246 30 Why smart investors fail and how to tilt the odds in your 
       favor 
264  1 New York, New York :|bPortfolio/Penguin,|c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    vi, 280 pages :|billustrations, charts ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and 
       index. 
505 0  Lake Moneybegone -- Timing Isn't Everything -- Turning 
       Lemons Into Lemonade -- Who Wants To Be A Billionaire? -- 
       Actually, Timing Is Everything -- The Celebrity Cephalopod
       -- Seers And Seer Suckers -- Where Are The Customers' 
       Yachts? -- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose -- Seven Habits Of 
       Highly Ineffective Investors -- But Wait, There's More -- 
       Far From The Maddening Crowd -- The Hungarian Grandma 
       Indicator (Or Why You May Need An Advisor) -- Leaving Lake
       Moneybegone. 
520    According to Wall Street Journal investing columnist 
       Spencer Jakab, most of us have no idea how much money 
       we're leaving on the table--or that the average saver 
       doesn't come anywhere close to earning the zaveragey 
       returns touted in those glossy brochures. We're 
       handicapped not only by psychological biases and a fear of
       missing out, but by an industry with multimillion-dollar 
       marketing budgets and an eye on its own bottom line, not 
       yours. Unless you're very handy, you probably don't know 
       how to fix your own car or give a family member a decent 
       haircut. But most Americans are expected to be part-time 
       fund managers. With a steady, livable pension check 
       becoming a rarity, we've been entrusted with our own 
       finances and, for the most part, failed miserably. Since 
       leaving his job as a top-rated stock analyst to become an 
       investing columnist, Jakab has watched his readers--and 
       his family, friends, and colleagues--make the same 
       mistakes again and again. He set out to evaluate the 
       typical advice people get, from the clearly risky to the 
       seemingly safe, to figure out where it all goes wrong and 
       how they could do much better. Blending entertaining 
       stories with some surprising research, Jakab explains: How
       a typical saver could have a retirement nest egg twice as 
       large by being cheap and lazy; Why investors who put their
       savings with a high-performing mutual fund manager end up 
       worse off than if they'd picked one who has struggled; The
       best way to cash in on your hunch that a recession is 
       looming; How people who check their brokerage accounts 
       frequently end up falling behind the market; Who isn't 
       nearly as good at investing as the media would have you 
       think; He also explains why you should never trust a World
       Cuppredicting octopus, why you shouldnt invest in 
       companies with an X or a Z in their names, and what to do 
       if a time traveler offers you economic news from the 
       future. Whatever your level of expertise, Heads I Win, 
       Tails I Win can help you vastly improve your odds of 
       investment success. 
650  0 Investments. 
650  0 Finance, Personal.