The Death of Capital Gains Investing: And What to Replace It With

By Richard Stooker

The longest bull market in history peaked in October 2007.

The last twelve years have been a "lost dozen" where the Dow Jones is back to where it was many years ago.

Thousands of Americans are in city parks whining the stock market is a scam and capitalism no longer works.

The old paradigms have shifted.

Where're the 10% average annual gains the experts promised the stock market would deliver?

If you plan to retire someday, you need to learn where the real stock market wealth is today.

If you think some pension or mutual fund manager knows how to beat the market, or some TV or newsletter guru, you better get wise quick.

If you believe you can discover undervalued stocks by reading annual reports or monitoring Yahoo! Finance, you better get real.

The world economic and financial systems are teetering. The people, businesses, state and local governments, and national governments of the world have dug a huge hole of debt.

Nobody knows what's going to happen. When a rating agency can downgrade the United States government, nobody knows what else the future may bring.

Greeks are rioting in Athens and Americans in Oakland California.

Still think all you have to do to be set for life is find some low "P/E" stocks?

We're in the early stages of a monster bear market. The old strategies won't work.

Yet the new ones are not magical or even complicated.

Learn about the problem -- and the solution -- in The Death of Capital Gains Investing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Stooker
• Release date: Aug 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516348664

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The Death of Capital Gains Investing

(And What to Replace It With)

Richard Stooker

The Death of Capital Gains Copyright © 2012 by Richard Stooker and Gold Egg Investing, LLC.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Disclaimers

Chapter 1

Any Happy Investors in the House?

Look at the bottom line of your 401(K), IRA, Roth IRA or other brokerage account.

Like what you see?

When was the last time you liked what you saw there?

If you’re like most people, it was late in 2007, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 14,000.

As I write this, on December 3, 2011, over four years later, it’s 12,019 and THAT only after a major post-Thanksgiving rally. Not long ago it under 11,000 (and it first reached 11,000 around April 2000).

It’s down 2,000 points from that 14,000 record.

And nobody knows where it’s going next.

Yet people keep trying to make money this way.

When they fail, they’re quick to label Wall Street a scam or a conspiracy.

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