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What is The Devil's Financial Dictionary about?

"The Devil's Financial Dictionary is a witty and enlightening guide to the facts, fads, follies and fiction of business and investing. (See PRICELESS.) Definitions include: DAY-TRADER, n. See IDIOT. FEE, n. A tiny word with a teeny sound, which nevertheless is the single biggest determinant of success or failure for most investors. Those who keep fees as low as possible will, on average, earn the highest possible returns. REGULATOR, n. A bureaucrat who attempts to stop rampaging elephants by brandishing feather-dusters at them. Also, a future employee of a bank, hedge fund, brokerage, investment-management firm, or financial lobby. (See REVOLVING DOOR.) RUMOR, n. The Wall Street equivalent of a fact. STOCK MARKET, n. A chaotic hive of millions of people who overpay for hope and underpay for value. The stock market serves not to allocate capital efficiently from those who have a surfeit of it to those who can put it to productive use in corporate enterprises; rather, it serves to humiliate those who think they know what the future holds. The stock market is a mechanism for putting a price tag on surprises. It transfers wealth from the arrogant to the humble, from those who trade the

Who reads The Devil's Financial Dictionary?

Author

Zweig, Jason

Publisher

PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Books Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789420153329

Category

humor

Subjects

Business, Finance, Reference

Rating

4.01 / 5 (80 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13