How to Make Money in the Stock Market

To those people who know me even casually, I suspect the title of this article (in conjunction with the author’s by-line) will seem to be the funniest thing I ever wrote. I could stop right now and get a million laughs.

Not that I blame them. My record, in the field of risk capital, is not one to boast of. Such money as I have made over the years has come from writing, and it has been a fair amount: and I am deeply grateful to this philanthropic government of ours which has permitted me annually to retain some small portion of it. In some years, after taking care of my living expenses, there has even been a thousand or two left over. A less dedicated man might have put such windfalls into a savings account, but my passion for the American way of life has inevitably led me toward investing such sums in the calculated risks on which this free economy depends.

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Morrie Ryskind

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To those people who know me even casually, I suspect the title of this article (in conjunction with the author’s by-line) will seem to be the funniest thing I ever wrote. I could stop right now and get a million laughs.

Not that I blame them. My record, in the field of risk capital, is not one to boast of. Such money as I have made over the years has come from writing, and it has been a fair amount: and I am deeply grateful to this philanthropic government of ours which has permitted me annually to retain some small portion of it. In some years, after taking care of my living expenses, there has even been a thousand or two left over. A less dedicated man might have put such windfalls into a savings account, but my passion for the American way of life has inevitably led me toward investing such sums in the calculated risks on which this free economy depends.