I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition

People have lots and lots of reasons for not managing their money, some of them valid, but most of them poorly veiled excuses for laziness or not having spent ten minutes on research. And for those who do invest, added fund options increase the chances that employees will invest in ultraconservative money market funds. This forecasting is called “timing the market.” But the truth is they simply cannot predict how high, how low, or even in which direction the market will go. The Truth: Real Estate Is a Poor Investment for Most Individual Investors Americans’ biggest “investments” are their houses, but real estate is also the place where Americans lose the most money.