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Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies

ISBN: 978-0-470-93662-7
Hardcover
240 pages
May 2011
List Price: US $27.95
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Prologue xi

Chapter 1 Who Says Talk Is Cheap? 1

Chapter 2 The Big Three to the Rescue 7

Chapter 3 The Prince of Apopka 13

Chapter 4 Death and a Kidnapping 23

Chapter 5 Magnificent, Mysterious Lady B. 33

Chapter 6 Engineering a New Existence 43

Chapter 7 Europe on Five Dollars a Day 51

Chapter 8 “Ed, We’re Already Doing Okay!” 57

Chapter 9 A Famished Lion in a Butcher Shop 69

Chapter 10 The Height of Duplicity and Betrayal? 79

Chapter 11 A Window on the Top 1 Percent 91

Chapter 12 Pulling the Trigger on Investments 105

Chapter 13 Swimming with Sharks 121

Chapter 14 Aren’t You That Financial Guy From TV? 131

Chapter 15 Walking a Racial Tightrope 141

Chapter 16 “Go For It, Dad!” 145

Chapter 17 Everyone’s Medical Nightmare 155

Chapter 18 My Biggest Business Mistake 163

Chapter 19 A Horror Movie without Sound 171

Chapter 20 The Art and Science of Stock Picking 177

Chapter 21 “God, I Owe You One!” 181

Chapter 22 Impressive Progress, Baffling Lethargy 185

Chapter 23 To Heir Is Human 191

Chapter 24 Anyone Care for a Can of New Coke? 197

Epilogue 203

Index 205

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