The Intelligent Investor

By Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig

Benjamin Graham's classic, first published in 1949, lays out the philosophy of "value investing": protect yourself from serious mistakes and build a long-term strategy you can stick with. This revised edition keeps Graham's original text and adds commentary by financial journalist Jason Zweig. Zweig connects Graham's examples to modern markets and recent financial history, and shows how to put his principles to work.

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