Dimensions: 9.4'' x 5.94'' 336 pages Three Rivers Press Publication Date: December 2002 Paperback ISBN: 1400046718 Hardcover ISBN: 0812991087

Has the stock market bottomed? Will the Dow and NASDAQ do better this year? While media outlets such as CNBC and CNNfn love to fill their airtime with these kinds of questions, James Glassman has a hard time finding the upside to such pursuits. He suggests that investors would do better by turning off their TVs and looking for real value instead, and in the The Secret Code of the Superior Investor he shows how. Glassman organizes his advice into 47 bite-size chapters that cover everything from the types of companies you should invest in ("solid citizens," pharmaceuticals, for-profit education) to what you as an investor should pay attention to (cash flow) and ignore (the latest Fed gossip, CNBC). At the heart of Glassman's "secret code" is the belief that stocks are the best long-term bet there is; the trick is finding solid companies to invest in and then sticking with those companies through thick and thin. This book is for anyone (especially those getting over the recent technology boom and bust) who is looking for a reliable and balanced approach to managing a portfolio of stocks and bonds.

James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at AEI.