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Jessie Rancourt
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Your largest cost is one you will never see...
What You Need to Know About Opportunity Cost is a ground-breaking book that captures the audience with a fundamental approach to understanding opportunity cost. The timeless wisdom that the listeners learn about makes this a must-have book for every finance collection, right now! After all, the sooner we learn the longer we benefit from it!
In What You Need to Know About Opportunity Cost, you will get the concepts of opportunity cost in a clear-cut and no-fluff-added way.
Here is a teaser of what you will learn in this audiobook:
- What is opportunity cost and our single greatest cause for underestimating real costs
- How do we come to a mathematical value of opportunity cost using the opportunity cost matrix
- What's the answer to everyone’s favorite question: Is it better to pay off debt or invest the difference?
- Why 10 percent is not always equal to 10 percent
- How we can best communicate our opportunities with each other and why we aren’t already
- What are the psychological factors of opportunity cost and the disproportionate weight it has
- What must be done if you have a financial advisor or invest on your own
- What is the importance of understanding the speed and velocity of opportunity cost
Whether you’re paying off debt, saving up money, running a business, or investing, this is the personal finance book that you will want to listen to, again and again.
Buy the audiobook by clicking the"buy now" button.
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- By Amazon Customer on 05-15-18
By: Wes Moss
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns, 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: John C. Bogle
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. Legendary mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500.
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One star for every point this 5 hour book makes.
- By Matt on 01-31-19
By: John C. Bogle
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The Index Revolution
- Why Investors Should Join It Now
- By: Charles D. Ellis
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Index Revolution argues that active investing is a loser's game, and that a passive approach is more profitable in today's market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on top in the long run. This book explains why, and describes how individual investors can take advantage of indexing to make their portfolio stronger and more profitable.
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A better way to invest
- By BSuave on 06-17-24
By: Charles D. Ellis
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The Smartest Money Book You'll Ever Read
- Everything You Need to Know About Growing, Spending, and Enjoying Your Money
- By: Daniel R. Solin
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Tens of thousands of readers trust Dan Solin's advice when it comes to investing, managing their 401(k)s, and planning for retirement. Now Solin offers the smartest guide to money management and financial planning yet. From managing your debt, boosting your savings, and owning (or renting) a home to buying insurance, maximizing investment returns, and retiring when you want to, The Smartest Money Book You'll Ever Read is your road map to financial freedom - and to enjoying yourself along the way.
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- By Amazon Customer on 04-13-21
By: Daniel R. Solin
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The Four Pillars of Investing
- Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
- By: William J. Bernstein
- Narrated by: Scott Pollak
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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William Bernstein's commonsense approach to portfolio construction has served investors well during the past turbulent decade - and it's what made The Four Pillars of Investing an instant classic when it was first published nearly a decade ago. This down-to-earth book lays out in easy-to-understand prose the four essential topics that every investor must master: the relationship of risk and reward, the history of the market, the psychology of the investor and the market, and the folly of taking financial advice from investment salespeople.
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- By ubuntu_bear on 10-03-24