http://www.amazon.com/Irreverent-Thorou ... everythingRandom Musings wrote:"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.
I read it many years ago - and am reading again. Very enjoyable.
RM
is also very funny.
http://www.amazon.com/Irreverent-Thorou ... everythingRandom Musings wrote:"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.
I read it many years ago - and am reading again. Very enjoyable.
RM
If you like humor, try his THe Boat Who Wouldn't Float next. I laughed myself sore over his description of going out to the outhouse on the "stage" over the water and looking down and seeing the swarming sculpins awaiting a treat. I also enjoyed his book about being a young man participating in the invasion of Italy. One is always so pleased to find a good writer who has written SO many books in so many genres.tacster wrote:fickle wrote:tacster wrote:"The Grey Seas Under", by Farley Mowat.
Yep, I've got it on order from my local library.
Do pick up The Serpent's Coil. Just as good. I think I stayed up all night reading it. Who needs movies when you have such great writing?tacster wrote:"The Grey Seas Under", by Farley Mowat. Great factual story about the operations of a North Atlantic rescue/salvage tug during the 1930's-40's. Hard to imagine what the crewmen endured, working in conditions from gales to hurricanes.
I just finished The Grand Alliance, the 3rd book in WC's series on WWII (I picked up a 1953 copy for pennies). Very interesting. I loved reading all his correspondence. A stroll through Amazon has bagged me most of the others for cheap.Austintatious wrote:The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, William Manchester's Vol. 3 of his "The Last Lion" work on the life and times of English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, largely completed by Paul Reid after Manchester's death. You'll be fighting the war from the perspective of the English people and from the personal perspective of Churchill.
No way one quarter of dividends added up to 30K of stock to sell. The amount they listed as short term is exactly the number of shares I moved from JT TEN to just mine.z3r0c00l wrote:Are you sure you did not reinvest dividends? Those purchases become short term lots, imho.
The human mind, I am convinced, is hard-wired to enjoy what we know about, so the more you learn, the more you will enjoy it. Try to make it more about learning about finance than "my personal stash". That helps take the fear out of it. I found Eric Tyson's Dummies book a painless way to start. Investing for Dummies comes to mind.gold5050 wrote:Thank you all for the info so far. it looks like i was correct. im in a deeper ocean with more valleys than i can count. i will have to do alot of reading. this is like work... does it ever get fun.... or is fun only gauged by success in the market.
I believe it was in lieu of salary, or as year-end bonuses.livesoft wrote:... unless they also received the shares as a gift and couldn't figure out the basis so they gave the shares away.Sidney wrote:...
You need to know what the original person paid for it. An alternative that is accepted by the IRS is the market value on the day it was bought by the original person. Then you have to run through all the calculations for splits etc....
I don't know the various dates the stock was gotten by my benefactor. I believe it was very early on in the company history, for he eventually gave away just oodles of it. When it was given to me, it was about 75 cent a share. I sold it for nearly $19. I was quite young, and the only message that came with it was "I hope you hold onto this". So I did, being the obedient person I was.HueyLD wrote:You may want to go to your local library and someone there may be able to look up old stock value data. I think you should exercise your due diligence in order to substantiate your cost basis on the tax returns.
A ha! The dawn comes up.Sidney wrote:I
If you want to give it to charity, the relevant number is the market value when you donate it -- that is the value of the potential deduction.
This is a wonderfully amusing book. It was in my brother's library and I read it one weekend 30 years ago. How delightful that, aside from my chance find of it then, I've not heard it mentioned anywhere else but here. I particularly loved the tulip craze.Random Walker wrote:I'm sure each of us might come up with a different list of 6. But I do think it is important to note that 1 of his recommended books is a history book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Madness of Crowds.
Dave
Pardon a naive questions from someone who doesn't use financial software:Rob5TCP wrote: It takes about 30 minutes a week and I usually do it while watching a movie
or TV.
And ignorance and peer pressure. There are plenty of people who fall like 9 pins when given a forceful "pitch". Especially when the pitch is from the grandson of your parent's best friends for 60+ years, and you live in a tight community where you buy CutCo knives and Avon products to "help so and so's newly graduated kid get a start in life." If you don't buy, it's gossip, gossip, gossip.STC wrote:
Marketing dollars spent to exploit the human emotions of fear and greed. It really is that simple.
All of the above is excellent. Remember, if you are going into something competitive, you'll have quite a bit of travel and application fees for residency.DFWinvestor wrote: snip- snip--
So if I were you I'd set aside at least $5K or perhaps as much as $8K to help pay for a move when you graduate (and/or interviews for residency programs),
Some of his work. Chain of Chance is really rather about chance in our life. The only "space" connection is the man is a retired space pilot.Valuethinker wrote:
So Lem is telling us something about modern society under communist rule, and its future.
In an amusing thought, owning it for more than a decade has not produced any anxiety in me. It's the selling that is stressing me out.Clever_Username wrote:R
However, owning JEF is clearly a high risk, anxiety-producing situation for you.
Sadly, most books I want I have to get through interlibrary loan. Additionally, our library is following a trend I hear lamented on education boards: it is more and more about computers and DVDs than books. Our local staff is tech savvy, but certainly not the Miss Smith I remember from my childhood.Fallible wrote:
It will depend on your children's ages of course, but I think the best recommendation for the appropriate graphic novel on financial literacy for kids should come from your librarian.
Well, if this is the spot for book junkies, any graphic novel type books for kids on the world of finance? (I know this is a long shot....)? Something less polemic than Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?Fallible wrote:P.S. It's always nice to hear what readers think of their books so others can decide whether they'd also like to read it.fickle wrote:Oooh, a book thread....
As long as the state doesn't default on it, this will be the best thing I ever tripped over and fell into. I don't think it is a great deal buying it now, but I was fortunate to pop out a baby just at the right time to benefit from this. I knew the 7% yearly increase cap would never hold ....letsgobobby wrote: I bet you are just *loving* your decision to fund the GET 529. The rate of return has been spectacular for a safe instrument.