1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974302703321

Autore

Fisher Kenneth L

Titolo

The little book of market myths : how to profit by avoiding the investing mistakes everyone else makes / / Ken Fisher and Lara Hoffmans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2013

ISBN

9781118445006

1118445007

9781283960540

1283960540

9781118445020

1118445023

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Little book big profits series

Altri autori (Persone)

HoffmansLara

Disciplina

332.642

Soggetti

Investments

Investments - Decision making

Securities

Portfolio management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Bonds are safer than stocks -- Asset allocation short-cuts -- Volatility and only volatility -- More volatile than ever -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors.

Sommario/riassunto

Exposes the truth about common investing myths and misconceptions and shows you how the truth shall set you free-to reap greater long-term and short-term gains Everybody knows that a strong dollar equals a strong economy, bonds are safer than stocks, gold is a safe investment and that high PEs signal high risk...right? While such ""common-sense"" rules of thumb may work for a time as investment strategies, as New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Ken Fisher, vividly demonstrates in this wise, informative, wholly entertaining new book, they'll always



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968239003321

Autore

Zimmerman Marc <1939->

Titolo

Defending their own in the cold : the cultural turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans / / Marc Zimmerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613895363

9781283582919

1283582910

9780252093494

0252093496

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxviii, 196 p. : ill

Collana

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

Disciplina

305.868/7295073

Soggetti

Puerto Ricans - United States - Intellectual life

Puerto Ricans - United States - Ethnic identity

Puerto Ricans - United States - Attitudes

Arts, Puerto Rican - Social aspects - United States

Puerto Ricans - Illinois - Chicago - Intellectual life

Puerto Ricans - Illinois - Chicago - Ethnic identity

Puerto Ricans - Illinois - Chicago - Attitudes

Arts, Puerto Rican - Social aspects - Illinois - Chicago

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Puerto Rican and Chicano crossovers in Latino film and music culture -- The flag and three Rican artists -- U.S. Puerto Rican literature -- Puerto Rican poets in Chicago -- Carmen Pursifull : dancing from New York to Anglo Illinois -- Cuban-Puerto Rican relations and final projections.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores US Puerto Rican culture as presented in East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic and literary performance. Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans.