Media, Mania and the Markets

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Promotion of tip-sheet The Fleet Street Letter. Front Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 2 Contents......Page 4 Foreword......Page 6 Chapter 1: Introduction......Page 8 The road to ruin......Page 10 2) Trust your instincts, not your emotions......Page 12 4) Question the obvious......Page 13 Tulips from Amsterdam......Page 16 The Great Tulip Mania......Page 17 The South Sea Bubble......Page 19 Chapter 3: 1992 And All That......Page 24 Chapter 4: Why Contrarian Investing Works......Page 30 Chapter 5: The Fleet Street Letter--56 Years of Good Advice......Page 36 Chapter 6: A Modern Mania--The Great ERM Disaster......Page 46 Chapter 7: The Media--Crowd Pullers......Page 54 Chapter 8: Investors and the Distorting Mirror......Page 60 The media folllow and exaggerate trends......Page 61 11 Major Predictions 1994-2010......Page 66 The Fleet Street Letter......Page 71 So who are we?......Page 72 Managed Funds......Page 73 UK Equities......Page 74 Fortune Oil......Page 76 Ashanti Gold......Page 79 Applied Distribution......Page 81 Other Subscription Benefits......Page 84 Rear Cover......Page 86