Investing for Dummies
Chapter One
Examining Your Investment
Choices
In This Chapter
* Defining investing
* Understanding why simple strategies work wonders
* Seeing how stocks, real estate, and small business build wealth
* Comprehending the role of lending and other investments
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In many parts of the world, life's basic necessities - food, clothing, shelter,
and taxes - gobble the entirety of people's meager earnings. Although some
Americans do struggle for basic necessities, the bigger problem for most
Americans is that they consider just about everything - eating out, driving new
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