(Prosperity)

You can probably define "stock" off the top of your head. It’s part of the unavoidable daily barrage of news coverage (hey, even Jon Stewart riffs on the financial news occasionally). But can you hold your own in a cocktail conversation about the markets? More important, are you comfortable choosing among the different ways to invest your money and working with your financial planner to make sure your money is growing? Here we cover the basics so you can answer “yes” to those questions in the fastest, most painless way possible.
