Beating the Street
by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild · first published 1993
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Fannie and Freddie bought a lot of subprime. I had friends that worked there and told me so and I've read about it. Over the long term Fannie made a lot of people rich. Read Beating the Street by Peter Lynch. He made a fortune off Fannie. Taxpayers will pay, unfortunately. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08... Without Fannie and Freddie and the backing by the US…
on “Michael Lewis’s ‘The Big Short’? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead” ↗The first book I read was Beating The Street by Peter Lynch. It's well written and helped me get some confidence and the right mindset.
on “Ask HN: How to start on the stock market” ↗…bonds) tend to underestimate the vast potential of huge returns in investing if one truly is an expert in investing. Also, I suggest reading Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher and also Beating the Street by Peter Lynch. Both books are from legendary investors and will shed light that is different than the index fund approach/philosophy.
on “Hard-won lessons about money and investing” ↗1. Beating the Street - Peter Lynch 2. More Money than God - Sebastian Mallaby 3. Dark Pools - Scott Patterson
on “Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?” ↗I've been reading "Beating the Street," by Peter Lynch. At many points in the book he notes how various experts were predicting the next depression throughout the 70s and 80s.
on “Civilization's golden era is teetering on collapse, yet we ignore meltdown” ↗…I do think that there are some people (albeit not many) with the right background, skills, training and commitment who can consistently beat the markets (ie., this was the thesis of Peter Lynch's book Beating the Street).
on “The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (2008)” ↗…of ways to figure this out. I read, for example, of analysts counting cars in store parking lots. Peter Lynch of Magellan Fund fame talks a lot about getting this information via proxies in his book "Beating The Street". If you follow corporate earnings reports, you'll often see the stock drop on seeing a report of good earnings that exceeded expectations. This is because the analysts got a whiff of a stink coming…
on “The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life” ↗