The Devil's Financial Dictionary [Hardcover]

Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall Street

The Devil's Financial Dictionaryskewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand.

An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's financial markets,The Devil's Financial Dictionarydelivers practical insights with a scorpion's sting. It cuts through the fads and fakery of Wall Street and clears a safe path for investors between euphoria and despair.

Staying out of financial purgatory has never been this fun.

Jason Zweigbecame a personal finance columnist for theWall Street Journalin 2008. He was a senior writer forMoneyand a guest columnist forTimeand Cnn.com. He is the author ofYour Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham'sThe Intelligent Investor, the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.” Before joiningMoneyin 1995, Zweig was the mutual funds editor atForbes. Earlier, he had been a reporter-researcher for the Economy & Business section ofTimeand an editorial assistant atAfrica Report, a bimonthly journal. A frequent commentator on television and radio, Zweig is also a popular public speaker who has addressed the American Association of Individual Investors, the Aspen Institute, the CFA Institute, the Morningstar Investment Conference, and university audiences at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford.

Zweig was for many years a trustee of the Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the editorial boards ofFinancial HistorymlC%