The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing initiates you into the mysteries of the financial pages -- buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures and options, spotting trends and evaluating companies. For those who are curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers a literate, forthright and lively alternative.

. in English from Columbia University. As one of the nation's leading experts in simplified communications, he pioneered the use of plain language, developing the first easy-to-read documents for the brokerage, banking and telecommunications industries and several government agencies. Morris is the author of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Personal Fin

This handy fact-filled book initiates you into the mysteries of the financial pages -- buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures and options, spotting trends and evaluating companies. . Recommended. For those who are curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers a literate, forthright and lively alternative

Debra H Crum said Positively must read for everyone!. I was surprised I had never come across this book before now but have gobbled it up!! The presentation is so much fun for a normally dry subject matter! Will be purchasing a few more of these books for my adult children and grandchilren. It's a primer all high school children should be assigned on their summer reading lists and they should each open a bank account or purchase a stock for the hands on experience alongside their studies.. Old, still relative and good Mary E. Hancock I bought four of these out of print books for family members as a sort of simple introduction to what stocks, mutual funds, and bonds are. I read it about 15 years ago when I was working for a financial institution and I would say that if offers a simple all around view of how moneyinstruments function within our markets. For the lay person, easy to understand with illustrations and it is concise. I would give it more stars if it were updated to today's pe. "A great "dictionary" to investing" according to A. Maxham. I had finally gotten out of credit card debt, and now that I had money to invest, I hit Amazon and looked for books to guide me in this task. I purchased this book (and two "For Dummies" books- to investing and mutual funds). I tell you this because if you are looking at this book for the same reason, I hope I can help.All the other reviews are right: it is thorough, consise, clear, friendly, colorful and explains "money." The subject matter of this book i