The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life

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