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The "Dummies" series of books is always a good place to start - make sure to buy the most recent version, as they are updated to keep up with the changing times.
Best book that I read on investing was Jeremy Siegel's The Future for Investors. It is based upon years of research performed by him and his students at the U of Penn's Wharton School of Business. Many books are just anecdotes from their author's experiences.
The best advice you can ever get is to keep it simple. Build a nest egg over time rather than going for the home run. Don't get caught up in the next bubble and invest in what you know. In looking for the long-term, save at least 10 to 20% of your income and investing it in the stock market in either a mutual fund or diversified ETFs (SPY is a great one to track the market) and you'll do fine.
"Das Kapital", by Karl Marx, too. If you read only books written by cheerleaders, you will not be able to detect the flaws in their reasoning. If you don't want to go that far, at least try something by John Kenneth Galbraith, like "American Capitalism" or "The New Industrial State".
In any case, read the works of academic thinkers on economics, not the ones by billionaires that tell how easy it was to do it. Avoid novels, like Ayn Rand, which are simply fiction that plugs in economic ideas that are barely plausible, and have about as much relevance as Harry Potter.
Also, avoid any of the financial news networks on cable, they're all bullish all the time, and won't let a bear near a microphone, no matter how bad things get.
A while back I remember hearing about a financial online news outlet called the Motley Fool.
If memory serves me correct it was supposed to be a great resource for laymen to learn about finance.
Still that was a while back, so if anyone knows of a similar resource/s, please feel free to share.
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