The Permanent Portfolio
Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy

This book is probably the most important investing book I've ever read. It details how one can build an all-weather investment portfolio that can survive whatever the economy throws your way: prosperity, recession, inflation and deflation. The portfolio is composed of only four assets: stocks, bonds......more

This is one of my favorite books about personal finances. Most of these types of books are full of Blablabla or authors with too much Ego. In this case, it goes straight to the point: explanations, concrete examples and suggestions. I read a lot of concepts like gold is not that profitable, cash is t......more

Let me start my review by stating that I read this book in Spanish, thanks to a beautiful initiative by a now Asset Manager previously blogger who has founded a publishing firm to translate the pillars of personal finance and investing among not-so-good neither at finance nor english Spanish people.......more

So I have been meaning to read this book for ages, even after reading the criticisms of the espoused financial strategies therein. And I'm really glad I did. It was a dry read. But I learned a lot that I didn't know. I was honestly fairly disturbed by some of it. I had no idea that the US government......more

Well-written and easy to follow book on Harry Browne's investment strategy. While I am not entirely sold on his strategy, this book is easier to follow and much more up-to-date than Browne's books though even this one is getting a little long in the tooth with a 2012 publication date. I'd really lik......more