Capitalist Code, The
It Can Save Your Life and Make You Very Rich

This short book could be even shorter: work hard, spend less than you earn, save the surplus, use it to invest in an index-linked fund. That’s basically it, if you do that, you will eventually become rich, or at least well-off. There’s an underlying point that’s hinted at occasionally, which is that......more

I have an Uncle that was an investor, along with his full time job as a draftsman. He owned stocks, and he was a partner in a fast food place in Fort Leonard Wood. He’d occasionally give my Dad old copies of Value Line, and I read those voraciously when I was in high school. I understood, in part fr......more

An easy read and who better to take financial advice from than the one and only Ben Stein. His biting humor and unmistakably concrete way to make a very complicated subject easy to comprehend and understand. Just invest in stocks, believe in our capitalistic society and save as much as you can as ea......more

Very good economic primer. I've loved Ben Stein since his performance as the teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" explaining the Taft Hartley Act to a class of bored high school students. This book, IMO, should be read by every high school senior - it definitely points out the fallacy and hypocrisy......more

This book was okay. Not a lot of information that I did not already know, but there was some useful nuggets. Clearly written by someone with strong conservative views as a few of the statements made were made from that of privilege and slightly offensive.......more