C. Edward Gilpatric

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Compras Nikon Bluetooth

1 A baby step in the right direction
Let's face facts: this book will not turn you into a savvy investor any more than reading the Cliff Notes on Macbeth will make you a scholar of English literature. The back cover claims the book will help you "master the essentials" of Wall Street, and this is only a slight boast - it will introduce you to the fundamentals with brevity and clarity, then point you toward more information in print and on the web. To that end, the book is certainly a good investment.

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2 Do You Really Want To Take the Shortcut?
If you're like me, then you are embarrassed to even be considering buying Cliffs Notes for Investors. Although the booklet uses simple, easy to understand language and covers several basic investment strategies, nothing can take the place of real research and true understanding. That will come from experience and extensive study. This book's main purpose could be to impress your friends with some newfound lingo.

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Back in the early 60's, touch tone phones only had 10 buttons.  Some

military versions had 16, while the 12 button jobs were used only by people

who had "diva" (digital inquiry, voice answerback) systems -- mainly banks.

Since in those days, only Western Electric  made "data sets" (modems) the

problems of terminology were all Bell System.  We used to struggle with

written descriptions of dial pads that were unfamiliar to most people

(most phones were rotary then.)  Partly in jest, some AT&T engineering

types (there was no marketing in the good old days, which is why they were

the good old days) made up the term "octalthorpe" (note spelling) to denote

the "pound sign."  Presumably because it has 8 points sticking out.  It

never really caught on.





Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what

is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

		-- John Kenneth Galbraith