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Learn to Earn

A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing

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Learn to Earn

By: Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
Narrated by: Peter Lynch
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 Mutual fund superstar Peter Lynch and author John Rothchild explain the basic principles of the stock market and business in an investing guide that will enlighten and entertain anyone who is high school age or older.

Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing—the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market—aren’t taught in school. At a time when individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic education in investing can have tragic consequences.

For those who know what to look for, investment opportunities are everywhere. The average high school student is familiar with Nike, Reebok, McDonald’s, the Gap, and The Body Shop. Nearly every teenager in America drinks Coke or Pepsi, but only a very few own shares in either company or even understand how to buy them. Every student studies American history, but few realize that our country was settled by European colonists financed by public companies in England and Holland—and the basic principles behind public companies haven’t changed in more than three hundred years.

In Learn to Earn, Lynch and Rothchild explain in a style accessible to anyone who is high school age or older how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market. They explain not only how to invest, but also how to think like an investor.©1996 Peter Lynch and John Rothchild. All rights reserved.; (P)1996 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. Career Success Investing & Trading Personal Finance
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Perfectly competent introduction to modern capitalism and investing, which spends refreshingly little time on irrelevant anecdotes It is however showing it's age in places, and won't be of much use if you're anything other than a total neophyte.

Lynch is decent as his own narrator.

For absolute beginners.

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All the basics of the stock market. Short and clear, you don't need any other investment book to be perfectly honest.

This book is perfect

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easy to digest, simple language on theoretically complex matters. Peter Lynch is also an outstanding speaker with wit and a calm, rhythmical voice.

good listen for the Rookie retail investor

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This book is perfect for a person new to investing and wanting to cover all the basics (and more) for a strong foundation on which to build. The narrator's voice is easy to listen to and the information is practical and full of examples. All the fancy stock market jargon is explained for even the most novice of listeners to understand.

A great foundation

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Why did Lynch take break? Wish his family understand I know this because I've read Beating The Sreet.

Why Lynch

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