Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy
Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy
In her highly anticipated new book, television’s ace financial reporter CNBC anchorwoman Maria Bartiromo shows you how to use timely news and hot information to make money in today’s market.A media luminary with the solid credentials of a seasoned pro, Maria Bartiromo has set the standard for business news programming, delivering indispensable, up-to-the-minute information from the New York Stock Exchange. Known for her spot on calls, her straightforward on-air manner, and her willingness to ask
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It’s what the book DOESN’T say that counts.,
Maria Bartiromo is not a money manager. She’s a reporter, and one without any real insights of her own. After all, this is the woman who, when asked if the market was in danger of crashing about a year ago, blithely replied that in the Internet age, a correction that used to take 2 years to complete could be over in 2 weeks. But don’t blame poor Maria. She was probably just repeating what somebody told her the day before.
So if she doesn’t have insights of her own, what exactly did she put into this book? Mostly comments by other people. In fact more than half of the book consists of lengthy quotations from Maria’s Wall Street cronies. But what sort of people cozy up to the media on Wall Street? Why, it’s the marketing and PR people of course. So there you have it. It’s no accident that so much of the book was devoted to relentless name-dropping. After all this book is mostly a marketing campaign for Maria and her friends on the Street.
That doesn’t mean that everything in the book is false. In fact, most things said in the book are true. But as with most marketing campaigns, the problem is not what they tell you, but what they DON’T tell you. The used car salesman may not outright lie to you, he just won’t mention that the transmission has been rebuilt. So don’t expect any deep, incisive expose of Wall Street practices in this book. When people talk to a reporter, they won’t say anything that’s bad for their firm. When a reporter writes a book, she wouldn’t say anything that makes her sources look bad.
What’s in this book is also in many other books. Save your money.
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|Stop…don’t buy this book.,
I had read many of the negative reviews for this book, but decided to ignore them and picked up the book in an airport bookstore (that’s right, a full price book store…ouch!). What a waste of money. You guys were right, and I should have listened to you. You guys who wrote the congratulatory reviews must be friends of Maria’s because you couldn’t have read this book.
Just to show I am a complete follower, I also read Navigate the Noise by Bernstein as suggested in one of the other reviews of Maria’s book. Nav the Noise is a much much more helpful book.
So, I’m one for two.
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|A terrible book …,
Simply another marketing exercise of tying a book, any book, to an attractive face with some media exposure to make some quick money. Not much difference between this and a Life Philosophy book by Vanna White or a biography of Britney Spears. The content is basic new investor instruction that you can find done better and for free at Web sites like Motley Fool and others. Very badly organized with lots of extraneous material … this book is at least two rewrites away from an acceptable first effort. Look elsewhere, friend.
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