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Books like A Wealth of Common Sense

A Wealth of Common Sense by Ben Carlson is about portfolio management, behavioral finance, long-term investing. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
    The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

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    The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

    John C. Bogle · Economics

    The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is John Bogle's concise case for why buying the entire stock market through a low-cost index fund is the most rational investment strategy available to most people.

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  2. A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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    A Random Walk Down Wall Street

    Burton G. Malkiel · Economics

    A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Burton Malkiel's argument that stock prices move in a way that is effectively unpredictable, that professional fund managers cannot consistently beat the market, and that the rational response for most investors is to buy and hold a diversified index fund.

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  3. The Psychology of Money
    The Psychology of Money

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    The Psychology of Money

    Morgan Housel · Economics

    The Psychology of Money is Morgan Housel's argument that financial success depends less on technical knowledge than on behavior — specifically, on understanding how your personal history, emotions, and cognitive biases shape every financial decision you make.

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  4. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
    The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

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    The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

    Taylor Larimore · Economics

    The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing is Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael LeBoeuf's practical manual for implementing John Bogle's investment philosophy in a complete financial plan.

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  5. 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

    Thomas Phelps · Economics

    100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.

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  6. A Short History of Financial Euphoria
    A Short History of Financial Euphoria

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    A Short History of Financial Euphoria

    John Kenneth Galbraith · Economics

    A Short History of Financial Euphoria is John Kenneth Galbraith's compressed account of speculative bubbles from the tulip mania of 1630s Holland through the 1987 US stock market crash.

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