The New Scrooge Investing: The Bargain Hunter's Guide to Thrifty Investments, Super Discounts, Special Privileges, and Other Money-Saving Tips

by Mark Skousen

Overview

Penny-pinching strategies to cut commissions, slash borrowing charges, get free stock tips­­and keep the savings!

Compounded over 30 years, small investment cost savings today can add up to thousands of dollars tomorrow. The New Scrooge Investing takes up where the original edition left off, giving investors more than 120 tips to cut the cost of investing­­from no-commission stocks and low-cost borrowing techniques to mutual funds with rock-bottom management fees, free Internet stock tips, and much more.

The explosion in on-line investing has opened a world of new cost-cutting possibilities for today's thrifty conscious investor and The New Scrooge Investing covers them all! Investors can look here for the latest trends and hottest bargains, including:

• Complete information for on-line discount stockbrokers.
• Guide to free investing information on the Internet.
• Tips to buying IPOs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071376709
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/30/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	233
File size:	820 KB

About the Author

Mark Skousen is editor-in-chief of Forecasts & Strategies, one of the largest investment/economic newsletters with over 30,000 subscribers. He is also professor of Economics and Finance at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, and a contributor to Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, National Review, Reason, Human Events, Liberty, and The Journal of Economic Perspective.

He is a former economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and has a Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University. Mr. Skousen completed a cassette tape series, The Secrets of the Great Investors, with Louis Rukeyser. A frequent speaker at numerous financial conferences around the world, Mr. Skousen was recently ranked the #1 speaker by the American Association of Individual Investors.

Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Scrooge Philosophy of Investing. Part 1: The Scrooge Stock Investor. Part 2: The Online Scrooge Investor. Part 3: The Nontraditional Scrooge Investor. Part 4: More Scrooge Investing. Index.