Today's financial landscape and what Wall Street doesn't want
you to know
Rigged Money is based on one simple truth: Wall Street
needs money from Main Street, not the other way around. The
financial industry has convinced the general public that investing
across different asset classes is the only way to protect wealth,
but this is an outdated rule that no longer applies.
Since asset classes--small caps, large caps, international
investments, gold, and bonds--now overlap when it comes to
risk and volatility parameters, the diversification effect is gone.
That's exactly what Wall Street doesn't want you to know--that
the rules of the game have changed.
* Risk Isn't Constant: Pie charts lie when it comes to accurately
describing the risk of stocks and bonds
* Dividends Are No Silver Bullet: They are designed to entice
investors rather than to increase a company's value or your net
worth
* Buy and Hold is Dead: The financial world (and all the
companies and securities in it) moves too quickly and is changing
too often for this theory to hold true today
* Gold Is Not an Investment: Gold is today's currency of fear,
and this fear is driven by escalating government debt
An unflinching look at this new financial world, Lee Munson's
Rigged Money arms today's investors with the simple, smart,
and clear advice needed to level the playing field.
