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Book Bits | 30 January 2016

Juggling with Knives: Smart Investing in the Coming Age of Volatility
By Jim Jubak
Review via Kirkus Reviews
Investment guru Jubak analyzes the growing volatility of both the financial markets and everyday life (jobs, housing, an aging population, climate change, etc.) and offers strategies for profiting in a topsy-turvy world… In this informative, often entertaining book, he details the many ways in which frequent zigzags since 2000 in the financial markets—especially abrupt changes of acceleration and direction—have combined with events in the housing, job, and retirements markets to increase our expectations about the degree of volatility in everyday life. Heightened volatility is now “embedded” in the stock market, writes Jubak.
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