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# Smart investor insights 50 key indicators Market-beating strategies The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the ... Forecasting (Wall Street Journal Guides) Paperback – Illustrated, May 3, 2011

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## Overview

The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter is an essential resource for savvy investors, providing in-depth analysis of key economic indicators that influence market trends. This guide empowers readers to make informed investment decisions by demystifying complex economic data, ensuring they stay ahead in the competitive financial landscape.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic
*by T***Y on April 4, 2014*

The book is clearly written by guys who know their stuff, and use it to make money. They know how to convey the essence of each indicator, and teach you the economics behind it. It's one of the best books I have ever read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Guide
*by M***N on May 26, 2013*

Mutual fund manager Peter Lynch once wrote something to the effect that, "If you can't explain your idea to a ten year old with one piece of paper and a crayon, then you don't really understand your idea."These guys understand their indicators.Their definitions are short and very understandable. I wish I had this thing a long time ago. I would have saved a lot of time on Google.Buy this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Witty tour of key (and not so key) economic indicators
*by H***N on May 12, 2011*

You know you are dealing with a book that's overstating its value just a tad when you see this in the introduction: "... we'll show you how the indicators we've chosen can help you see the turns in the economy before they happen. With that prescience you can make changes to your investments ahead of time and avoid the suffering you probably felt during the past couple of years." Now anyone who could actually predict the "turns in the economy" using these indicators -- or any others -- would be reclining on his yacht moored off the south of France, and would be unlikely to divulge his secrets in a mass market paperback. That said, this book is an entertaining read and can serve as a useful reference to anyone who follows the markets or the broader economy.Simon Constable writes for the Wall Street Journal and hosts their afternoon "NewsHub" recap of the markets. Anyone who follows the NewHub will be familiar with his witty -- actually, kind of snarky -- commentary. He's sort of the Simon Cowell of the Wall Street crowd. His distinctive voice is evident in this book. His co-author, Robert Wright, has written extensively on business history and used to be associated with the Stern School at NYU and the Museum of Financial History in Manhattan's financial district, although he apparently now teaches at a college in South Dakota.The book consists of 50 short chapters devoted to the indicators. Each chapter has a brief description of the indicator -- usually accompanied by a quote from an investment analysts on the indicator's importance -- a time series graph of the indicator, and a discussion of possible investment opportunities that might occur when the indicator is unusually high or low. Each chapter ends with an "Executive Summary" box that explains when data on the indicator are released, where to go to find the data, what to watch for, and so on. To anyone who follows the financial news even casually, many of the indicators will be familiar, such as automobile sales, durable goods orders, or M2. To most people, though, other indicators are likely to be less familiar, such as book-to-bill ratio, the Baltic dry index, and the Tankan survey. I'm a little skeptical about how useful some of the more obscure indicators will be to the average investor, but they make for interesting reading. The final (tongue-in-cheek) indicator, the "Vixen index," measures how attractive the waitresses are in your local restaurant. The more attractive the waitresses, the worse the labor market, because in a strong labor market these attractive women would be working at better jobs elsewhere.All-in-all, leaving aside the somewhat overstated claims the authors make for investment strategies based on these indicators, this is a valuable little reference tool and should be, at the very least, a fun read for most personal investors.

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