Financials: Procrastinating Gift Buyers, Rejoice! 4 Book Ideas for the Holiday Season
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 14 December 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Knowledge is a gift that will last forever. Here are four of our favorite investing books for you to read or give to a loved one.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to Industry Focus Financial's edition. Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanza, Merry Christmas. Happy Festivist. |
| 0:08.0 | Season's greetings for anyone I might have missed. We've got John Maxfield on the phone. We've also got Robert Brokeamp, CFP. I was told to really emphasize that part. He is the lead advisor of the Motley Fool's |
| 0:25.0 | rule your retirement newsletter and is a regular contributor to Motley Fool answers which is one of our |
| 0:29.5 | sister podcasts and we also have Michael Douglas who used to be on this show and then he abandon it but we're really happy to have him back |
| 0:36.8 | Thanks Gabby great intro there that means either you were too good to be on it or way too bad |
| 0:46.7 | I'll let our listeners decide whether they've missed the ums soothing sounds of Michael Douglas so today we've got a special holiday episode. We thought that we'd help any |
| 0:56.0 | procrastinating gift givers out there by sharing our favorite investing and or |
| 0:59.7 | business books. In my family everyone gets three Christmas presents every year. You get a book, some form of outer |
| 1:06.0 | where because everyone's really worried that I'm cold all the time I guess and a chocolate orange. |
| 1:11.0 | So that is three free gift ideas for everyone for the price of one free podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | I'll just add that my family does the same thing in terms of the book and the outerware. |
| 1:20.0 | PJs every Christmas Eve, so we're in line on that one there you go my family |
| 1:23.9 | actually does chocolate oranges so there you go we just need to combine our |
| 1:27.4 | families will be as good as her as Michael yeah |
| 1:30.0 | if they follow my |
| 1:32.0 | wow I guess you guys are invited over for Christmas now because I feel bad. |
| 1:35.0 | Actually last year I got a romance novel and in the interest of not getting another one I'm hoping you all will sway my mother |
| 1:45.0 | into buying one of your favorite books for me for Christmas. So you have to be as |
| 1:49.6 | charming and convincing as possible so and we know Gabby's mother's listening. |
| 1:53.8 | She is our most dedicated listener besides my mother. |
| 1:56.0 | She listens to all of them and she'll tell me whether or not she thinks they're good every week. |
| 2:00.1 | So. |
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