Mutual funds offer investors some of the most diverse and effective ways of investing in the market. Whether you're a Wall Street newcomer or veteran, mutual funds allow you to participate in the full range of offerings while at the same time protecting you from the volatility of individual stocks. With the straight talk and savvy that have made her a trusted source of financial advise, Suze Orman ... explains the numerous options and investment strategies of stock and bond funds. In this same volume, Suze Orman clarifies a widely available but frequently misunderstood investment vehicle, the annuity. No matter where you are in your financial life, no matter what your goals, you will find sound, practical, enlightening advice in Ask Suze ... About Mutual Funds and Annuities. -- back cover.

Did you know that the stock market had reached a "permanently high plateau" in October 1929? You would have thought so, had you listened to the experts back then. Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky of the "Institute of Expertology" have made it their mission to compare the actual statements of professional prognosticators with the events following their predictions. Knowing better than to comment directly, they let the reader decide about the (ahem) reliability of the experts. Brilliantly organized, using the categories of Adler's "Outline of Knowledge," The Experts Speak will educate the naive and entertain the cynical with its thousands of well-documented quotes by wise men and women, from Aristotle ("The brain is an organ of minor importance") to Albert Einstein ("There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear]energy will ever be obtainable"). Concise, well-written descriptions of the events that actually happened--usually at variance with informed opinion--add to the dry humor. If you've always wanted to be a self-assured talking head, The Experts Speak will make you an authority on definitive misinformation. --Rob Lightner

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