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Introduction: Check in with the Control Tower. Chapter One: The Nut Behind the wheel. Behavioral Finance in One Lesson. Chapter Two: Wall Street Therapy. For Good and For Evil. Chapter Three: How Not To Invest. Kids, Don''t Try This At Home. Chapter Four: How To Invest. It''s Not as Fun as it Used to Be. Chapter Five: The Holy Grail of Investing. Having Your Cake and Eating it Too. Chapter Six: Bulletproofing Your Investments. A Recipe For Setting Up Your Tangent Portfolios. Chapter Seven: Pulling the Trigger. Practicing Portfolio Management at Home for Fun and Profit. Chapter Eight: Become the CEO of You, Inc. Get Wise, Get Smart, Get (Further) Educated. Chapter Nine: Human Capital 411. Follow the Money. Chapter Ten: Save ''Til You Drop. Getting and Spending. Chapter Eleven: Houses of Blues. Welcome to the Neighborhood of Poverty. Chapter Twelve: Can You Still Retire Comfortably? Retirement Was Overrated Anyway. Chapter Thirteen: The End Game. "If Something Cannot Go on Forever, It Will Stop". So Long, Farewell. Acknowledgements. About the Authors. Index.