If you have ever considered investing in tax-free municipal bonds, but weren't sure what they are, or maybe you have started to invest in munis but weren't sure what you were buying, then this is the book for you. It covers the basics of municipal bonds, their history, the tax consequences of the interest, the risks, and many other aspects of municipal bonds and municipal bond closed end funds. If you want to receive tax-free income on your investments, you owe it to yourself to check out municipal bonds.

If you are interested in learning how to invest or what stocks to buy, you are looking at the wrong book. The purpose of this book is to provide interesting, amusing, and fascinating trivia about Wall Street and the stock market. Did a stock really trade for over a million dollars a share? What stock had the symbol GRRR and why? Can the company's stock symbol affect the stock's price? What company paid $8.5 million for a domain name? What stock owned George Washington's graffiti on a rock? If you want to know the answers to these investment and stock market questions, and many, many others,...

Since the beginning of time, even sitting around the campfire telling stories, entertainment has been the most amusing activity ever to hold the attention of mankind. After all, besides work, relaxation, and sleep, what else is there besides entertainment? A unique way of tracking the history of entertainment, at least from the 1800's, is through the review of antique stock certificates. I have been collecting antique stocks and bonds for many years, specializing in entertainment related stock certificates. This hobby of collecting antique stock certificates, also called scripophily, is a...