Rumpelstiltskin's Rules for Making Your Farthings Grow

Susan Laubach

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<h4>Ready to get a clue about investing and take charge of your financial future?</h4>

Before you sink a single dollar into the stock market, read <i>Rumpelstiltskin's Rules for Making Your Farthings Grow</i> by Susan Laubach. It's an enjoyable, painless, and profitable introduction to the world of investing.

If terms like broker, bonds, and venture capital cause you to break out into a sweat, fear not! Laubach teaches through entertaining, colorful retellings of fables and fairy tales you already know by heart.

You'll learn business and investing fundamentals right alongside The Three Little Pigs, Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks, and more.
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<li>How are stocks and bonds different?
<li>What causes a stock price to go up or down?
<li>Why are earnings per share critical to understand?
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You'll even learn an easy-to-apply "secret formula" to discover if a stock price is a good value–or not!

Investment concepts are broken down in easy-to-understand, easy-to-remember language. Rumpelstiltskin's seven rules will provide a foundation for all your future investments. (They'll also equip you to sniff out the foxes and wolves selling bad investments).

These "rules" are essential for investing, served with a smile, so you can laugh while learning.

A practical summary and study guide at the back of the book further reinforces your knowledge and provides a quick refresher whenever you need it.

With Susan Laubach as your storyteller and guide, you can be sure you're in good hands. She is a former Wall Street stockbroker and financial educator. She's taught several levels of investment education to students aged 18 to 74. Better Investing Magazine called Laubach's previous book "the most-well rounded source of basic stock information and education."

Look, if Baby Bear can grow up to be a successful stock broker, then you can learn to invest, too.

<b>Time is money, and there's no better time to learn about investing than right now.</b> Make <i>Rumpelstiltskin's Rules for Making Your Farthings Grow</i> your first–or next–investment in your financial future. The knowledge you'll gain will pay dividends for the rest of your life.

Sujets

• Securities
• Investments
• Economie gestion
• Economics
• Business
• Stocks

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456633929
• Langue: English

Extrait

Time is money, and there's no better time to learn about investing than right now. Make Rumpelstiltskin's Rules for Making Your Farthings Grow your first–or next–investment in your financial future. The knowledge you'll gain will pay dividends for the rest of your life." />

Rumpelstiltskin's Rules for Making Your Farthings Grow
 
by Susan Laubach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Susan Laubach
165 West End Ave, 4R
New York NY 10023
[e-mail]
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2019 Susan Laubach,
All rights reserved.
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
http://www.eBookIt.com
 
 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-3392-9
 
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
HOW A PUBLIC COMPANY IS BORN
CHAPTER TWO
BOB BEAR GOES TO WORK FOR RUMPELSTILSSKIN NEVERRIPOFF
CHAPTER THREE
TOM THE TURTLE and RULE # 1
CHAPTER FOUR
THE THREE PIGS and RULE #2
CHAPTER FIVE
SLEEPING BEAUTY and RULE #3
CHAPTER SIX
THE EMPEROR’S NEW ROBE and RULE #4
CHAPTER SEVEN
RUMPELSTILTSKIN AND GLADYS and RULE #6
ADDENDUM: RULE #7
STUDY GUIDE
CHAPTER ONE - GOING PUBLIC
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
A FINAL THOUGHT FOR THE PRUDENT INVESTOR WHO WANTS TO MAKE HER/HIS FARTHINGS GROW and manage her/his expectations
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
 
INTRODUCTION
I developed this project for a few reasons. One, having taught Creative Dramatics to elementary and middle-school children, I am aware of how firmly the themes of stories remain in the creators’ heads long after the participants move on to higher grades and more complicated lives.
Therefore, utilizing drama in the form of familiar but somewhat skewed fairy tales seemed a good way to cement some informal but, in my opinion, important “rules” for future investors.
Second, I recently heard (and fervently hope) that Financial Literacy is now part of the Education Department’s Core Curriculum. It is my belief that understanding basic issues regarding the stock market fits into that structure.
Third, for many years I taught several levels of investment education to students aged 18 to 74, and during that time it became clear to me that beginning investors would rather hear an illustrative story than read a balance sheet or an income statement or a financial analyst’s report. No surprise there.
I would suggest using this package in the following way: The group leader should read the fairy tales to get a feel for the use of the stories which illustrate the concepts. After each story, please consult the study guide if things are unclear in the stories and please, PLEASE contact me (contact information below) with anything that is not understood clearly. I will add explanatory information as needed. It may be useful to read the stories aloud to your ultimate audience before embarking on the dramatic presentation. Ask for volunteers to act out the fairy tale characters, duplicate and pass out the scripts and schedule a staged reading. It might work well to do one story and concept at a time (e.g. at weekly sessions). This would give the leader the opportunity to discuss each “rule" and determine if it was well-understood by the participants. The group could stage a full production of all the fairy tales at the end of a semester or similar time period.
NOTE: I welcome all suggestions for the Study Guide and can be reached at [e-mail].
Rumpelstilskin’s 7 Rules for Making Your Farthings Grow
 
1. Slow but steady wins the race.
2. Always ask, what can go wrong with an investment?
3. Know the difference between a loaner to and an owner of a company.
4. Always understand how a company makes its money.
5. Never pay too much for shares of a company’s stock.
6. Don’t expect your investments to spin straw into gold. That is: Don’t expect more from your investment portfolio than is reasonable.
7. Diversify