Re-reading the book cover, to cover the brilliance of the chapter What Are They In It For? strikes me again. “Ninety percent of the people in the market don ́t care about making money”. The term “people” might also have been exchanged from meaning individuals investing own money to civil servants within mutual fund houses. But the importance of being part of what’s going on, being there and knowing things, supersedes the making money part, at least correctly defined. These fun money games for kids can help children to understand the value of UK coins, how to count money and work out change. They also include problem solving money activities.

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The Money Game” works the same way, but within the logic of Wall Street. “Yes,” it says, “money is a game, played by the rich and for the rich, and that’s as it should be.” ‘Adam Smith,’ the pseudonymous author, does a likeable job of pointing out the silliness of certain financial types (the amateur investor, the idiot expert, etc.) and teasing the financial powers that be, but this is all coming from a man who makes his money on Wall Street, who is inherently of the system he’s commenting on. His newspaper column, on which the book was based, apparently made a grand stir among financiers when it was published in the 1960’s – but it only made that stir because the financiers read it, because it stayed inside their world.

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Markets are only a tiny facet of society, but being made by mass psychology, they are a good litmus paper for what is going on. Markets only work when they believe, and this confidence is based on the idea that men can manage their affairs rationally. The longest period of prosperity in the last few hundred years came when everyone believed that the king was on the throne, that the pound was worth a pound, that God was in His Heaven, and that all these things would continue for ever and ever… In the longer run, the actions of all the investors, individual and institutional, professional and nonprofessional, have to be based on the belief that leadership knows what it is doing and that rational men are handling the nation’s business rationally. If that belief fades, then so do the markets. They do not merely dive, they dive and then they disappear. It happened here in the blight of the spirit from 1930 to 1933, and it has happened in other countries.” the end object of investment is serenity, and serenity can only be achieved by the avoidance of anxiety, and to avoid anxiety you have to know who you are and what you’re doing.” An overreliance on mathematics imbues an expectation of precision in markets that are rarely precise. The more complex the math, the more speculative the results. When George J. W. Goodman puts forth his Irregular Rule , what he is ultimately asking you the reader is to know yourself before you show up to the Game. Know the type of investing strategy that works for you and your level of anxiety. Know your reasons, your whys, and your how’s. Because if you do not, you will be swept up one way or another by the Game.

Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part Smith’s’ observations can be funny, and his curmudgeonliness is fun to read. And for a book written as long ago as this one was, it’s surprisingly relevant – aside from an amusingly archaic diatribe about computers, the same arguments then are the ones we’re having today. Chapter 21: You need to create your own money philosophy to answer the question do you really want to be rich?

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I don't know how much relevance this book has to "the Game", as it is today in the new millenia, but this is a great account of history anyway - you get a deepdive into economic situation of the 60 and early 70s in US.

Chapter 4: Since 80% of the market is psychology or deeper still human emotionality, the market can really be seen as a crowd. Because of this tendency, there is no substitute for good information, good research, and good ideas. These free money games can help children who are learning to use UK money. Understanding money is a difficult concept when children are introduced to single coins having different values. These games range in challenge from basic counting with single coins to those where children need to work out problems involving adding amounts and change. Chapter 13: The numbers created by “independent auditors” should be looked at with a grain of salt given that the accountants are paid and hired by the companies themselves. Chapter 10: Charting assumes that what was true yesterday will also be true tomorrow. But you and I know that past patterns/performance are not predictive of future patterns/performance.