Investing in bonds and the savings bank is safe as we will see. But if you are adventurous you can make a great deal from Forex.
The article is written primarily for the smaller investor who needs high yield, the man who has between, let us say, $5,000 and $100,000. If the $5,000 investor secures a return on his money not of 3%, or $150 per year, but 12% $600 per year his benefit will be material, not nominal.
If the $100,000 investor receives not $3,000 but $12,000 the difference is great enough to mean complete financial independence.
While theoretically the large investor, the one with $1,000,000 and up, does not need to consider such investments, because his $1,000,000 in the savings bank yields him $30,000 a year, or his investment in tax free bonds at 4% yields him $40,000 a year not subject to income tax, strangely enough this is the type of investor who invests the most heavily in the types of opportunities examined in this book. Some of the very largest aggregations of capital in the world do little other than invest in mortgages at discounts, foreign loans, real estate syndications and investment partnerships.
Strange as it may seem, the...