Best business/investment magzine?
September 30, 2005 11:13 PM Subscribe
I recently read a copy of Fortune magazine and found it interesting. I'd like to subscribe to a business/investment magazine....any others I should consider?
Best answer: I second the Economist but find it tough to slog through an entire issue every week - it's just too damn fine. And their periodic reviews / supplements (typically found in the middle) are an entire issue in an issue.
I also sub to Money Week, an interesting and much smaller weekly. They've got a couple of mailing lists that you can use to get an idea of the print publication.
Between the two I get the long term, bigger picture perspective from The Ecnomist, and a short to intermediate term view from Money Week.
posted by Mutant at 11:58 PM on September 30, 2005
I also sub to Money Week, an interesting and much smaller weekly. They've got a couple of mailing lists that you can use to get an idea of the print publication.
Between the two I get the long term, bigger picture perspective from The Ecnomist, and a short to intermediate term view from Money Week.
posted by Mutant at 11:58 PM on September 30, 2005
Barron's and Investor's Business Daily provide good weekly smaller-scale company/sector analysis for individual investors.
posted by shoos at 12:07 AM on October 1, 2005
posted by shoos at 12:07 AM on October 1, 2005
You should get John Mauldin's newsletter, it's wide-ranging and engaging reading. It's called Thoughts From The Frontline.
posted by evariste at 2:19 AM on October 1, 2005
posted by evariste at 2:19 AM on October 1, 2005
I find Business 2.0 to be an entrepreneur's version of Fortune, printed by the same publisher I think. It is more about running small and medium sized businesses, not much about investing in them. Sometime filled with fluff, sometimes interesting from cover to cover. There is a link for a free copy on the site.
posted by McGuillicuddy at 6:13 AM on October 1, 2005
posted by McGuillicuddy at 6:13 AM on October 1, 2005
What's a good money finance magazine for someone with out much money to invest?
posted by drezdn at 8:53 AM on October 1, 2005
posted by drezdn at 8:53 AM on October 1, 2005
It's kind of fluffy, but Fortune Small Business is a good read.
posted by o2b at 9:20 AM on October 1, 2005
posted by o2b at 9:20 AM on October 1, 2005
Surprised no one mentioned Fortune's main competition, Forbes. Try it for for their columnists, who are all over the place.
Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal if you can swing them.
As with all journals, be aware of the political slants.
posted by IndigoJones at 9:21 AM on October 1, 2005
Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal if you can swing them.
As with all journals, be aware of the political slants.
posted by IndigoJones at 9:21 AM on October 1, 2005
Seconding IndigoJones. I like Forbes better than Fortune, among other reasons, because I think it's slightly more contrary and much more well-written.
The Economist is wonderful, but it's a different kind of magazine altogether.
Your local Borders or Barnes and Noble or newsstand or whatever has dozens of personal finance/business magazines, including almost everything that's been mentioned here. Why not drop twenty bucks on four or five appealing-looking titles and take them home, or drop five bucks on a latte and read a bunch of them in the store?
posted by box at 11:09 AM on October 1, 2005
The Economist is wonderful, but it's a different kind of magazine altogether.
Your local Borders or Barnes and Noble or newsstand or whatever has dozens of personal finance/business magazines, including almost everything that's been mentioned here. Why not drop twenty bucks on four or five appealing-looking titles and take them home, or drop five bucks on a latte and read a bunch of them in the store?
posted by box at 11:09 AM on October 1, 2005
Best answer: Whatever you do, remember that you can find ridiculously low subscription prices on eBay. I've never had a problem with them, and between the two of us, we subscribe to some ridiculous 20 monthly journals/magazines. Probably 8-10 of those were from eBay.
posted by fionab at 11:48 AM on October 1, 2005
posted by fionab at 11:48 AM on October 1, 2005
While I agree that you ought to sample, if you're just getting going in business, you might also consider Business Week, which is a bit more accessible to the less sophisticated reader than Fortune or Forbes, while still offering plenty of good substance.
posted by MattD at 9:19 PM on October 1, 2005
posted by MattD at 9:19 PM on October 1, 2005
I like Inc. myself--it's a small-business, entrepreneurial rag. Might not be your thing, though.
posted by RikiTikiTavi at 11:50 PM on October 1, 2005
posted by RikiTikiTavi at 11:50 PM on October 1, 2005
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posted by IndpMed at 11:30 PM on September 30, 2005