How to Invest $50-$5,000 10e: The Small Investor's Step-by-Step Plan for Low-Risk Investing in Today's Economy

The books for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the idea of investing. It’s very simple and straightforward without all the jargon and confusion in most financial books. You can read it in about 2 hrs. It’s basically written at an 8th grade reading level. It leaves most the complex things to professionals like: brokers, financial advisors, accountants, lawyers, etc.In all, makes an excellent primer for understanding the basics though. If you don’t know the difference between a stock vs a bond, or what a CD is, or a money market account, this is the book for you. It’s definitely not aimed as a “get rich quick with investing” book, but more of a rounded approach at slowly building a nest egg.

Start here if you want to invest, have no understanding of how investing works (including stocks), and if you want the clearest, no-fuss explanations that assume no understanding. I love that this book starts from 0. Some of us aren’t blessed with exposure to investing through our background and through our education, and this is such a helpful resource for people like me. ☺️

I think I approached How to Invest $50-$5000 by Nancy Dunnan thinking that it would be a plan. Sort of “What to do with the first $50 you have so that you can, in time, move it toward being $5000.” I guess it is that, but what it’s not is a strict plan for doing that. This is really more of an educational book organized by tiers. It lays out all of the investment options you have if you have $50, if you have $500, etc., and it makes the point that you should be doing something to grow the money rather than let it sit for nothing in a savings account.So, even though the book was not exactly what I thought it would be, I found it to be very informative and very useful. The book discussed multiple investment options that I didn’t know were out there, and I’ve used it as a launch point in the last several months to learn about those options. Since the edition I read was published in 2010 (I’d love to see a more recent edition of the book!), several things were out of date. EE bonds, for instance, simply aren’t issued any more, and several other laws have changed. On the whole, though, this is an excellent starting place to learn the basic basics on investing.

Really good book, easy to read, explains what are the financial instruments avaiable nowdays and what strategy follow through. Its the first book i've read about financial instruments and it did gave a good general idea, assertive and has references to where to find those instruments. Im satisfied with this book.

I really love this book intensely. It is one of the very few books that does not presume that you have $1000 or $3000 just languishing your bank account waiting for something to do.It gives hope for prosperity to those who are not earning six figure salaries. In a world where your future financial security is more and more up to you alone, this book offers invaluable information and advice.

This truly has some great information in it and does a great job of explaining everything. Buy this!

I wish I had read this book ten years ago. I would recommend parents to buy their teenagers this book instead of smartphones ipads ipods. it is sad that young people in the USA want only the 'get rich quick' schemes and they don't realize that money is made gradually and this books tells you how. i really wish I read this 10 years ago!!

Discusses common investments such as putting it in a saving account. Was looking for a book that talks about investments with better ROI.

First off I have to be honest, I bought this book mainly because it was a penny (plus postage), also I have started to save and invest in shares. So I was hoping to get some advice and tips out of this book, but whilst there are some pearls of wisdom here to be had for sure, it’s rather hard for this Brit to take it all in seeing as how all of this book is American centric.There are money saving habits in here and ways of setting easy goals that I will use going forward but I didn’t think it would be so skewed to the US.On reflection I should of see it coming with the dollars to dollars saving on the cover. That’s buyer error for you.Good points are it’s easy to read, well laid out with lots of bullet points.So, not really for me, but am understanding of American finance can be found here, so that’s good I guess.

this book looks simple in the way that it looks written for college boys, but just Americans: no notions of economics, short and scholastic descriptions of the financial tools but only those of the American market. Essentially useless