Resources

Reading is Fundamental

The goal of Main Street to Wall Street, Inc is to build communities through financial literacy. We want to help! So in your quest toward financial literacy, we’ve compiled some suggested reading.

Top Picks:

The Complete Finance Companion: The Latest in Financial Principles and Practice from the World’s Best Finance Schools (Ft Mastering Series) by Financial Times/Prentice Hall
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
Barbarians at the Gate: the Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Investment Madness: How Psychology Affects Your Investing…And What To Do About It by John R. Nofsinger

Additional Reading:

Creating Shareholder Value: A Guide for Managers and Investors by Alfred Rappaport
Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
The Great Game: the Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power (1653-2000) by John Steele Gordon
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lecter CPA
Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy
The Bankers: the Next Generation by Martin Mayer
Managing Financial Risk: A Guide to Derivative Products, Financial Engineering and Value Maximization (Irwin Library of Investment & Finance) by Charles W. Smithson, Clifford W. Smith
The Warren Buffett Way, by Robert G. Hagstrom, Ken Fisher, and Bill Miller
Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes by Bruce I. Jacobs
Index Mutual Funds: Profiting from an Investment Revolution by W. Scott Simon
Confessions of a Venture Capitalist: Inside the High Stake World of Start-up Financing by Ruthann Quindlen
You Can Do It!: The Boomer’s Guide to a Great Retirement by Jonathan D. Pond
Charles Schwab’s Guide to Financial Independence by Charles Schwab
The New Global Investors: How Shareowners Can Unlock Sustainable Prosperity Worldwide by Robert A. G. Monks
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko

Internet Links

With so much information now available on the internet, the need to pay for financial tools is becoming less and less. Here are a list of internet links that can help acquaint you with the in and outs of personal finance.

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