The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth Ingore Wall Street and Get on with Your Life

Baby Boomers are savings and investing at a rate of 33 percent of what they need to sustain their current lifestyles at retirement. The Coffeehouse Investor shows readers that by focusing more on their passions and creativity, and less on money and the hype and hysteria of Wall Street, they will actually build more wealth and improve the quality of their lives at the same time. more

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Posted: Sep-19-2009

New Information & Very Plausible

This book gave me an easily absorbed view that will shape my investment plans for the near term.

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Posted: Sep-12-2009

easy read

an easy to read book on investing make good sence if we will just listen and follow thru.

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Posted: Jul-02-2009

Good basic fundamentals but no protection against a really bad fall

Save as much as you can and invest mainly in stock index funds. But what if we have a Japanese experience and the stock market stays down for what seems like forever. The author is an optimist he does not worry about that. He has no fear of financial disaster in case of an attack greater than...

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Posted: Jun-20-2009

Too much repetition

Not sure if this is another case of a publisher requiring an author to write a certain number of pages, when the author doesn't have the content to fill those pages, but I grew weary of the repetition in the book. Basically, if you read the reviews here ([...]), you won't need to spend time...

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Posted: May-11-2009

Everyone should read this book

A concise, easy to read, easy to relate to message on how to effectively invest, not speculate, is available in this little but powerful book. A very nice update of the original to reflect the last few years of the investment world. A great first read for the new investor of any age and a great...

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Posted: Oct-24-2008

Love it or hate it

I agree with other reviews that point out that this book could be reduced to be basically a pamphlet with the main points. In fact, the web site for the coffee house investor pretty much does just that. What is it that fills the pages you ask? Stories of climing mountains, baking pumpkin pies...

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Posted: May-23-2008

Short Book to Whet Your Appetite on Indexing

This book could work if the goal is to introduce an investor to the concept of efficient markets and index investing. However it is a little too laid back and short on content. It is easily skimmed, and summarizes the major points of how you can't beat the market, how indexing and low expenses...

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Posted: Jan-18-2008

The Coffeehouse Investor

After five years of honing skills as an individual stock investor, I realized there's got to be a better way. And this book is a simple guide to a stress free, but strategic method. With the gyrations of the market currently, Bill's philosophy is a remedy for riding the waves and sleeping...

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Posted: Dec-16-2007

Calming your investor emotions

This is an excellent, short book that puts an individual's emotion in perspective. It illustrates the simple principles to basic investments that will not consume much of your noncareer working hours.

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