Are You a Stock or a Bond?

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• akg_67 · Dec 25, 2013 · Recommends

  Non-tech books, I read and liked in 2013: Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau Anything Your Want by Derek Sivers The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar Are You a Stock or a Bond? by Moshe Milevsky The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• mooreds · Jun 26, 2019 · Recommends

  Second this. Really drives home what the average person should be doing in the markets. I also like "Are you a stock or a bond". https://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Stock-Bond-Financial/dp/01331...

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• mooreds · Aug 28, 2019 · Recommends

  Educate yourself. I like A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Are You A Stock Or A Bond, and Your Money Or Your Life. Asset allocation is one of the few levers to control risk that you have. The more you have in safe assets (bonds and cash) the less likely to lose money in a downturn. Nothing's…

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• mooreds · Oct 31, 2021 · Recommends

  …with a couple of great books you should be able to get from the library: * The Four Pillars of Investing: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Pillars-Investing-Building-Portfolio-ebook/dp/B0041842TW * Are You a Stock or a Bond: https://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Stock-Bond-Financial/dp/0133115291 * A Random Walk Down Wall Street: https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/0393358380 All of these point to fundamentals…

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• mooreds · Mar 26, 2015 · Recommends

  Right. If you view your labor as an investment (and you should), employees are diversified and founders definitely are not. An interesting book on the subject is "Are you a Stock or a Bond" [0]. It really makes you think about how your time/labor has a risk profile in the same way that financial instruments in your 401k do. [0] http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/are-you-a-stock-or-a-bond-moshe-a-milevsky/1111895174?ean=9780137127375

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• mooreds · Aug 31, 2019 · Recommends

  Educate yourself. I like A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Are You A Stock Or A Bond, and Your Money Or Your Life.

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• mooreds · Nov 6, 2023 · Recommends

  Great books to read: A random walk down wall street Are you a stock or a bond Your money or your life

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• mooreds · Oct 26, 2017 · Mentions

  Great point about job security being a valuable part of tenure. I read "Are you a stock or a bond" and the author (a professor, actually) recommended that folks treat their income stream (and the safety of that) in a similar manner to other investments. So if I have tenure, I can invest more in risky…

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