Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answersto Making Money
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Larry Light has been the editor for personal finance at the Wall Street Journal, where he wrote finance stories for the paper on topics ranging from gold-buying mania to the plight of GM bondholders. Before joining the WSJ, he was the senior editor in charge of money and investing for Forbes magazine. Under his supervision, Forbes reporters uncovered hosts of Wall Street abuses, in particular, mutual fund shenanigans that prosecutors later pounced on. At BusinessWeek, he was part of a team that won a National Magazine Award. A well-known personality in the financial media, Larry regularly appears on CNBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg News, and NBC.

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Acknowledgments.

Prologue The Rosetta Stone.

Chapter 1 Tarnished Gems: Value Investing.

Chapter 2 Eternal Equities: Stocks Do Best?

Chapter 3 On Autopilot: Indexes.

Chapter 4 From Mild to Wild: Bonds Take Wing.

Chapter 5 The Fast Lane: Growth Investing.

Chapter 6 Over There: International Investing.

Chapter 7 Un-Real Estate: Property's Pull.

Chapter 8 Not Just for the Rich: Alternatives.

Chapter 9 Spreading It Around: Asset Allocation.

Chapter 10 Looking for the Bad: Short Selling.

Chapter 11 Chess Masters: Hedge Funds.

Chapter 12 The Madness of Crowds: Behaviorism.

Conclusion Out of the Shadows.

Bibliography.

About the Author.

Index.

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