The Empowered Investor [Paperback]

Robert E. Karoly (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Dearborn Trade Pub (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793126398
• ISBN-13: 978-0793126392
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,145,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Investor's Bill of Rights, February 5, 1998

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This review is from: The Empowered Investor (Paperback)

The Empowered Investor candidly reveals every investor's Bill of Rights for the very first time. Investors are shown how to "practice safe investing", how to recognize "rogue" stockbrokers before becoming involved with them. TEI is also a book about how to keep what you have. The mysteries of brokerage firms statements and concealed losses are clearly solved. Investors learn of the attitudes of brokerage firms toward their clients. They will learn the importance of Account Opening Agreements that every investor is required to sign. The research departments myth is unraveled for investors' protection. Just as important, TEI is a guide to self-discovery of accounts which have been abused by stockbrokers. Investors learn how their vulnerability increases in direct proportion to the degree of personal friendship that the broker has achieved with the investor. TEI is a complete guide to recovering losses, also. It is destined to become the ultimate investors' defensive guide to investing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Empowered Investor, May 12, 2003

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K. L. Loveland (Savannah, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Empowered Investor (Paperback)

WOW! Karoly said it all back in 1998. All about the corruption on Wall Street. The selling of investment research by brokerage firms to any listed company that wanted to move their stock.
He knew that this had been going on for years and that there was no way to stop it...ever.
The faster that investors get to this book the faster they will stop hemmoraging their assets into the financial suicide that the brokerage firms have set up for their customers.
Since the General accounting Office reported that only 0ne percent of all investors know that they can recover their losses, the firms translate that they have a 99% chance of continueing to get away with their fraud.
The Empowered Investor levels the Wall Street playing field for every investor.
Like every other reader I wish that I had read TEI a few years ago when Wall Street had only taken away about one half of my life's savings.
Wall Street has been trashing TEI since its publishing date.
Dearbrn the Publisher caught hell from the securities industry because they provide so many text books and testing material for stockbrokers. TEI is absolutely must reading for the survival of all investors.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If I Knew Then what I learned from The Empowered Investor., September 15, 2002

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K. L. Yorlik (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Empowered Investor (Paperback)

I thought that I was a pretty knowledgable investor until I began reading TEI. If I had read TEI only one year ago I would not have lost over $500,000. by thinking that my broker knew more about stocks than I did. His bogus title made me think he was a specially trained securities specialist. What a joke!

The Investor's Bill of Rights led me to the path of how to recover my losses. That's where I am now.

I don't need a thousand words to say "Read The Empowered Investor or you are on the way to financial suicide, period".

This expose' has been smeared by stockbrokers and their employers ever since it was published in 1998. Everything that you have only recently read about Enron, WorldCom and the corruption that is Wall Street, is in TEI.

How I envy those early readers.

TEI is hard to find but it is in most libraries.

When you have read just the first two chapters you will also want to spread the word.

I plan to recover all of my losses with interest and will never trust the securities firms, brokers or their paid for research departments again.

TEI has taught me how to keep my recovered loss.

K. L. Yorlik, Chicago, IL.