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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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Fisher investments press |
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Fisher investments press.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Beat the Crowd; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Your Brain-Training Guide; Wall Street's Contrarian Contradiction; The Curmudgeon's Conundrum; There Is Always a But; Why Most Investors Are Mostly Wrong Most of the Time; The First Rule of True Contrarianism; The All-Seeing Market; Different, Not Opposite; The Right Frame of Mind; Check Your Ego; Chapter 2: For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls; Wall Street's Useless/Useful Fascination With Calendars; Professional Groupthink; How the Contrarian Uses Professional Forecasts; Even the Best Fall Sometimes . . .; How to Beat the Street; Notes |
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Chapter 3: Dracula and the Four Horsemen of the Media ApocalypseThe Media's Flawed Financial Eyesight; Dracula Around the Corner; Looking for Growth in All the Wrong Places; The Magic Indicator; War-What Is It Good For?; Don't Be a Cow, Be a Contrarian; Notes; Chapter 4: Not in the Next 30 Months; Baby Boomer Bomb?; What About Social Security and Medicare?; But What if the "Lost Generation" Stays Lost?; What About Debt?; But What if Debt Causes Runaway Inflation?; But What if America Stops Innovating?; But What About Global Warming?; What About Income Inequality? |
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What if the Dollar Loses Its Place as the World's Reserve Currency?What the Markets Know; Notes; Chapter 5: Take a Safari With Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau; How the Elephant Got Its Tusks; Dumbo, Gross Margins and Other High-Flying Elephants; When Good News Dresses Up as Bad News; The Yield Curve Curveball; When Elephants Attack; A Brief History of Tragedy; When Textbooks Lie; It Can't Be an Elephant If ... ; Notes; Chapter 6: The Chapter You'll Love to Hate; Step 1: Ditch Your Biases; My Guy Is Best, Your Guy Is Worst and Other Unhelpful Opinions; A Magical Elephant Named Gridlock |
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(Not) Just a Bill Sittin' on Capitol HillThat Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen; What's Worse Than a Politician?; Why the Government Already Made the Next Crisis Worse; Notes; Chapter 7: Put Those Textbooks Away; Don't Toss Your Textbooks-But Know Their Limitations!; The First Commandment: P/Es Aren't Predictive; The CAPEd Crusader Is No Superhero; Small Beats All?; Fancy Formulas and Other Academic Kryptonite; Theory Isn't Reality; If Not School, Where?; Notes; Chapter 8: Throw Away This Book!; Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and Pop Star Economists; Classics Are Classic for a Reason |
| Summary |
Train your brain to be a real contrarian and outsmart the crowd Beat the Crowd is the real contrarian's guide to investing, with comprehensive explanations of how a true contrarian investor thinks and acts - and why it works more often than not. Bestselling author Ken Fisher breaks down the myths and cuts through the noise to present a clear, unvarnished view of timeless market realities, and the ways in which a contrarian approach to investing will outsmart the herd. In true Ken Fisher style, the book explains why the crowd often goes astray-and how you can stay on track. Contrarians und. |
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English. |
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Investments.
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Portfolio management.
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Investment analysis.
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Corporations -- Finance.
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Business enterprises -- Finance.
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Investissements. |
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Gestion de portefeuille. |
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Analyse financière. |
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portfolios (financial records) |
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Corporations -- Finance |
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Business enterprises -- Finance |
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Investment analysis |
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Investments |
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Portfolio management |
| Added Author |
Dellinger, Elisabeth, author.
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| Added Title |
How you can out-invest the herd by thinking differently |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fisher, Kenneth L. Beat the crowd. Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2015] 9781118973059 (OCoLC)906874127 |
| ISBN |
1118973054 |
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9781118973059 |
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1118973070 |
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9781118973073 |
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1118973062 |
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9781118973066 |
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