Comments on: The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

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FourPillars — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:42:34 +0000

Just for the record, if you want to track the US stock market – VTI is ABSOLUTELY the best product for you!

Seriously though, it is – Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF – covers all the publicly traded companies in the US – big, small and medium sizes.

The Dow Jones isn’t a “good” index in the sense that it only contains a relatively small number of companies and it is weighted by stock price, not market capitalization.

I’m not into stock analysis either – I do find it interesting but I don’t think I can add any value in doing it.

Mike

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Jason — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:30:37 +0000

Yet another book to add to my list. Thanks!

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Mr. Cheap — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:07:46 +0000

I’d *absolutely* recommend it. This is such a well respected and influential book that it probably wouldn’t be going too far to suggest that any investor who wants to buy individual stocks read through this first (even if they decide on a buying approach different then Graham’s, they should consider his arguments first.

(the positives of this book are pretty universally acknowledged, which is why I dwelt on the few, from my humble perspective, negatives).

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Jason — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:13:18 +0000

Maybe I missed it, but would you recommend the book?