Table of Contents
Introduction: Check In with the Control Tower 1
Chapter One The Nut Behind the Wheel: Behavioral Finance in One Lesson 11
Chapter Two Wall Street Therapy: For Good and for Evil 23
Chapter Three How Not to Invest: Kids, Don’t Try This at Home 39
Chapter Four How to Invest: It’s Not as Fun as It Used to Be 53
Chapter Five The Holy Grail of Investing: Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too 67
Chapter Six Bulletproofing Your Investments: A Recipe for Setting Up Your Tangent Portfolios 83
Chapter Seven Pulling the Trigger: Practicing Portfolio Management at Home for Fun and Profit 95
Chapter Eight Become the CEO of You, Inc.: Get Wise, Get Smart, Get (Further) Educated 107
Chapter Nine Human Capital 411: Your Personal Human Potential Movement 119
Chapter Ten Save ’Til You Drop: Topping off Your Piggy Bank 135
Chapter Eleven Houses of Blues: Welcome to the Neighborhood of Poverty 149
Chapter Twelve Can You Still Retire Comfortably?: Retirement Was Overrated, Anyway 163
Chapter Thirteen The End Game: “If Something Cannot Go on Forever, It Will Stop” 181
So Long, Farewell 197
Acknowledgments 201
About the Authors 203
