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    "title": "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing",
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  "consensus": "262 mentions from 202 unique commenters across 3 subreddits. r/Bogleheads accounts for 199 of those mentions — the book is practically a founding document there — and the community cites it so reflexively that one ↑152 thread mocked up a fake helpline where \"contemplating market timing\" routes callers straight to it.",
  "read_if": "You've heard 'just buy index funds' a dozen times and want the source document. This is it. r/investing explicitly rates it above The Intelligent Investor for someone opening their first brokerage account — the ↑361 thread says so directly. If you already hold VTSAX and understand why expense ratios matter, the book confirms what you know and you can skip it. Read it first, though.",
  "skip_if": "The r/Bogleheads ↑227 commenter notes that Bogle's own 2007–2017 return forecast in this book missed significantly — actual returns came in much higher.",
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    "excerpt": "I agree fully. The Intelligent Investor is not a book I'd recommend to new investors unless they are seriously interested. I see it get recommended to parents looking for financial books for their 16yo kids. IMO, although full of good content, the way this book is written I found it to be pretty de…",
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    "sentiment": 0.5,
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    "editorial_caveat": "The r/Bogleheads ↑227 commenter notes that Bogle's own 2007–2017 return forecast in this book missed significantly — actual returns came in much higher.",
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      "subreddit": "investing",
      "excerpt": "I agree fully. The Intelligent Investor is not a book I'd recommend to new investors unless they are seriously interested. I see it get recommended to parents looking for financial books for their 16yo kids. IMO, although full of good content, the way this book is written I found it to be pretty de…",
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    {
      "subreddit": "investing",
      "excerpt": "I’m pretty sure you wrote this sarcastically but fwiw: - 70% lose generational wealth by the 2nd generation - 90% lose generational wealth by the 3rd generation - 80% of millionaires today are self made It’s actually a lot harder than it sounds to instill discipline into people who haven’t earned …",
      "score": 317,
      "sentiment": 0,
      "published_at": "2021-05-25T13:58:57+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/nklmfn/the_single_greatest_edge_an_investor_can_have/gze4jlq/"
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    {
      "subreddit": "Bogleheads",
      "excerpt": "Meanwhile Vanguard has literally been making this same forecast since 2007. I remember sitting up attentively while reading John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing where he predicted a 4%-5% average annual return in equites for the decade of 2007-2017. We all know how that turned o…",
      "score": 227,
      "sentiment": 0,
      "published_at": "2021-02-03T00:31:47+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/comments/lb7vue/vanguards_10year_forecast_for_stocks_our_expected/glsxh5v/"
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    {
      "subreddit": "investing",
      "excerpt": "There are classic books that explain in detail why trying to pick individual stocks \"is a loser's game\". Chief among them is A Random Walk Down Wall Street. I would spend my summer reading these two books. If you want to try your hand at stock picking I wouldn't go 50:50. I would use 10% or less of …",
      "score": 225,
      "sentiment": 0.7,
      "published_at": "2023-04-01T18:14:18+00:00",
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