Offering a straightforward, non-intimidating approach tolearning investing, this book gives beginner investors theknowledge they need to understand documentation and investingconcepts--from key terms to complicated interest-bearingaccounts.

One of America's most respected and renowned financialplanners provides 1001 tips to help everyone--from CEOs tohomemakers--save money. Learn which corners to cut in various areasof everyday life. Take the revealing self-test and assess whereyour money is being spent. Then allow the expert to guide you tothe most effective and creative ways to save it.

To coincide with his new public television special, airingon PBS stations starting in March 2009, Ed Slott’s proven plan forgenerating enough personal wealth to last you the rest of yourlife Given the challenging economic times, we will all welcome EdSlott’s concrete advice for generating enormous wealth. In thismust-have book you’ll learn how to: ? Retire with more money than you ever could have imagined andstill take care of your loved ones ? Move your money from FOREVER taxed to NEVER taxed ? Make your IRA and 401(k) safer during rocky periods ? Pick the best financial advisor and learn what pitfalls toavoid ? Think and plan like a multimillionaire ? Make Uncle Sam work for you Based on Slott’s fundamental principles of building, protecting,and preserving wealth for you and your loved ones, Stay Rich forLife is filled with real life stories.

Updated for paperback publication, Aftershock is a brilliantreading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a planfor dealing with its challenging aftermath. When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directedalmost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, oneof our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy,suggests another reason for the meltdown. Our real problem, heargues, lies in the increasing concentration of wealth in the handsof the richest Americans, while stagnant wages and rising costshave forced the middle class to go deep into debt. Reich’sthoughtful and detailed account of where we are headed over thenext decades—and how we can fix our economic system—is a practical,humane, and much-needed blueprint for restoring America’s economyand rebuilding our society.

No Matter Where You Start, David Bach Can Help You Live andFinish Rich With his national bestsellers "Smart Women Finish Rich"and "Smart Couples Finish" "Rich," renowned financial advisor andeducator David Bach has taught millions of people of all ages andincomes how to take control of their financial future. His message,that the key to building wealth is "values first, stuff second,"has inspired people all over the world. Now, "The" "Finish RichWorkbook" gives couples and singles alike a new opportunity totailor his advice for their individual circumstances. Combining thedown-to-earth, jargon-free approach that has made him so popularwith the hands-on practicality of a workbook, this new addition tothe "Finish Rich" series is like having a one-on-one session withDavid Bach. You will learn how to: - Use the power of the LatteFactor(TM), David Bach's international recognized approach tobuilding wealth on a few dollars a day. - Apply the Debt FreeSolutionTM, a powerful way to reduce debt quickly and repa

This book was written to offer encouragement and basicinformation to the individual investor. Who knew it would gothrough thirty printings and sell more than one million copies? Asthis latest edition appears eleven years beyond the first, I'mconvinced that the same principles that helped me perform well atthe Fidelity Magellan Fund still apply to investing in stockstoday. It's been a remarkable stretch since One Up on Wall Street hit thebookstores in 1989. I left Magellan in May, 1990, and pundits saidit was a brilliant move. They congratulated me for getting out atthe right time -- just before the collapse of the great bullmarket. For the moment, the pessimists looked smart. The country'smajor banks flirted with insolvency, and a few went belly up. Byearly fall, war was brewing in Iraq. Stocks suffered one of theirworst declines in recent memory. But then the war was won, thebanking system survived, and stocks rebounded. Some rebound! The Dow is up more than fourfold since October, 1990,from the 2,400 lev

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Diversification provides a well-known way of getting something close to a free lunch: by spreading money across different kinds of investments, investors can earn the same return with lower risk (or a much higher return for the same amount of risk). This strategy, introduced nearly fifty years ago, led to such strategies as index funds. What if we were all missing out on another free lunch that’s right under our noses? In Lifecycle Investing, Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres—two of the most innovative thinkers in business, law, and economics—have developed tools that will allow nearly any investor to diversify their portfolios over time. By using leveraging when young—a controversial idea that sparked hate mail when the authors first floated it in the pages of Forbes—investors of all stripes, from those just starting to plan to those getting ready to retire, can substantially reduce overall risk while improving their returns. In Lifecycle Investing, readers will learn How to figure out the level of

From first-time newlyweds to people on their second or thirdmarriage, couples face an overwhelming task when it comes to moneymanagement. Nationally renowned financial advisor and bestsellingauthor David Bach knows that it doesn’t have to be this way. InSmart Couples Finish Rich, he provides couples with easy-to-usetools that cover everything from credit card management, toinvestment advice, to long-term care. You and your partner willlearn how to work together as a team to identify your core valuesand dreams, creating a financial plan that will allow you toachieve security, provide for your family’s future financial needs,and increase your income. Together, you’ll learn why couples thatplan their finances together, stay together!

Making sound investments is tough enough without having toworry about unscrupulous financial advisers and outright frauds.But recently strengthened laws aren't enough to stop the"professionals" intent on profiting from - or just plain stealing -your money. As an Enforcement Branch Chief at the Securities andExchange Commission, Pat Huddleston witnessed countless people losetheir life savings to reckless stockbrokers and fraudulent schemes.Now an SEC-recommended Receiver and CEO of a securities andinvestment fraud investigation agency, Huddleston has intimateknowledge of how scam artists and bad brokers operate. In TheVigilant Investor, he explains WHY we fall for investment scams,HOW con artists play on our emotions, and WHAT we can do to protectourselves from predators. With its unique look into the science offinancial decision making, the book blows up the popular myths andsimplistic "do's and don'ts" of investing while sharing techniquesanyone can use to perform due diligence even better than the"experts.

How can you construct a financial investment strategy toprotect yourself … yet still get the growth to ensure a solidfinancial future and comfortable retirement during these turbulenttimes? By building an investing safety net that gives you the gainsneeded for growth – though more modest than those of past years –but protection against the downside. So when turbulencestrikes again – and it will – you won’t re-live the financialnightmares of recent years when portfolios and 401Ks weredevastated.

What is Gotcha Capitalism? Coughing up $4 fees for ATM transactions. Iron-clad cell phonecontracts you can’t get out of with a crowbar. Paying big bucks forinsurance you don’t need on a rental car or forking over $20 a dayfor supposedly “free” wireless internet. Every day we use banks,cell phones, and credit cards. Every day we book hotels and airlinetickets. And every day we get ripped off. How? Here are just a few examples of how big business can getyou: · You didn’t fill up the rental car with gas? Gotcha! Gas costs $7 a gallon here. · Your bank balance fell to $999.99 for one day? Gotcha! That’ll be $12. · You miss one payment on that 18-month same-as-cash loan? Gotcha! That’ll be $512 extra. · You’re one day late on that electric bill? Gotcha! All your credit cards now have a 29.99% interestrate. But not for much longer. In Gotcha Capitalism, MSNBC.com’s “RedTape Chronicles” columnist Bob Sullivan exposes the way

THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the mostimportant works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the mostdistinguished writers of our time - from THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, thegroundbreaking book in which he conined the tern "conventionalwisdom," to THE GREAT CRASH, an unsurpassed account of the eventsthat triggered America's worst economic crisis. Galbraith's newintroductions place the works in their historical moment and makeclear their enduring relevance for the new century. THE ESSENTIALGALBRAITH will delight old admirers and introduce one of our mostbeloved writers to a new generation of readers. It is also anindispensable resource for scholars and students of economics,history, and politics, offering unparalleled access to the seminalwritings of an extraordinary thinker.

This book presents the theory of capital utilization, adiscussion of the econometrics of capital utilization, andeconometric tests of the theory using international data. Capitalutilization, defined as the proportion of time that capital isworking productively, is mainly affected by shift-working. Capitalutilization is an important economic variable that has receivedserious attention from economists only since the mid-1960s In thefirst part, the authors provide a synthesis of current knowledge,combining a consistent statement of existing theory with some majorextensions. In the second part, they turn to the econometrics,first discussing the appropriate methodology and then testing thetheory on data from several countries. This empirical work isconsiderably more sophisticated than previous studies on thistopic. Having established the theory and tested it, they move on toconsider policy, the relationship between capital utilization andeconomic growth, and the place of shift-work in the dualeconomy.

Recommended by finance experts and used extensively byinstitutional investors, index funds and exchange-traded funds(ETFs) provide unmanaged, diversified exposure to a variety ofasset classes. Index Investing For Dummies shows activeinvestors how to add index investments to their portfolios and makethe most of their money, while protecting their assets. It featuresplain-English information on the different types of index funds andtheir advantage over other funds, getting started in indexinvesting, using index funds for asset allocation, understandingreturns and risk, diversifying among fund holdings, and applyingwinning strategies for maximum profit.

TheclassicbestsellerbyBenjaminGraham,TheIntelligentInvestorhastaughtandinspiredhundredsofthousandsofpeopleworldwide.Sinceitsoriginalpublicationin1949,BenjaminGraham'sbookhasremainedthemostrespectedguidetoinvesting,duetohistimelessphilosophyofvalueinvesting,whichhelpsprotectinvestorsagainsttheareasofpossiblesubstantialerrorandteachesthemtodeveloplong-termstrategieswithwhichtheywillbecomfortabledowntheroad. Overtheyears,marketdevelopmentshaveborneoutthewisdomofGraham'sbasicpolicies,andintoday'svolatilemarket,TheIntelligentInvestoristhemostimportantbookyouwilleverreadonmakingtherightdecisionstoprotectyourinvestmentsandmakethemasuccess.Featuringnewchapterupdates-whichappendeverychapterofGraham'sbook,leavinghisoriginaltextuntouched-fromnotedfinancialjournalistJasonZweig,thisHarperBusinessEssentialseditionofthetimelessclassicoffersreadersanevenclearerunderstandingofGraham'swisdomasitshouldbeappliedtoday.

Mutual-fund superstar Peter Lynch and author John Rothchildexplain the basic principles of investing and business in a primerthat will enlighten and entertain anyone who is high-school age orolder. Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, haveonly the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason,say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing -- thefundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do withthe stock market -- aren't taught in school. At a time whenindividuals have to make important decisions about saving forcollege and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide abasic education in investing can have tragic consequences. For those who know what to look for, investment opportunities areeverywhere. The average high-school student is familiar with Nike,Reebok, McDonald's, the Gap, and the Body Shop. Nearly everyteenager in America drinks Coke or Pepsi, but only a very few ownshares in either company or even understand how to buy them. Everystu

Every month you spend money in twelve majorcategories. And at the end of each month, you scratch your head andwonder, Where did it all go? In The Little Book of Big Savings, America’sFinancial Expert, Ellie Kay, will help you uncover theextra cash just waiting to be found in every area of your life. Notonly will you never again wonder where your cash went, you willhave extra to save–and even to share. Don’t mindlessly let hundreds of dollars slipout of your ATM every month. Ellie’s practical advice will showyou: ?How one phone call could save you $500 a yearor more ?How your kids can get a great education withoutbreaking the bank ?Three ways your water heater can save youmoney ?Why giving away money is one of the best waysto save it ?How to save up to 50% on your onlinepurchases Plus hundreds of other tips that will loosenyour budget without sacrificing your lifestyle. Soon you’ll findwhat you want the most when it comes to your finances: peace ofmind.

Have you ever wondered why some people attract wealth whileothers stay financially trapped? The key is learningwealth-friendly, upside-down thinking. In this New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Todaybestseller, Robert Shemin, one-time "idiot" and currently amultimillionaire, illustrates in a witty way how going against thegrain is, in fact, the surest way to gain. Learn how to: ? set only one powerful success goal—and make it a big one ? play while your money goes to work ? stop building someone else’s business and start building yourown ? live and think like a millionaire while you’re becoming one ? use the power and smarts of other Rich Idiots to help you jointhe Rich Idiot Club Spend just a few pages with Robert and his Rich Idiot friends andyou’ll be convinced that “if they could do it, I can do it.”

Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil,extracting it hadnt seemed worth the effort and risk untilrecently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oilskyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier totap, the region has become the scene of a competition between majorpowers that recalls the nineteenth-century scramble forcolonization there. But what does this giddy new oil boom meanforAmerica, for the world, for Africans themselves? John Ghazviniantraveled through twelve African countriesfrom Sudan to Congo toAngolatalking to warlords, industry executives, bandits, activists,priests, missionaries, oil-rig workers, scientists, and ordinarypeople whose lives have been transformednot necessarily for thebetterby the riches beneath their feet. The result is a high-octanenarrative that reveals the challenges, obstacles, reasons fordespair, and reasons for hope emerging from the worlds newestenergy hot spot.

John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of Americaneconomics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal,World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchantnew book distills this lifetime of experience in the public andprivate sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they standtoday. Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between realityand "conventional wisdom" -- a phrase he coined -- Galbraith tells,along with much else, how we have reached a point where the privatesector has unprecedented control over the public sector. We havegiven ourselves over to self-serving belief and "contrivednonsense" or, more simply, fraud. This has come at the expense ofthe economy, effective government, and the business world.Particularly noted is the central power of the corporation and theshift in authority from shareholders and board members tomanagement. In an intense exercise of fraud, the pretense ofshareholder power is still maintained, even with the immediatepart

INVESTING PRINCIPLES FROM THE MASTER Ignore Sound Bites ThatRattle Markets Treat Market Pessimism as Your Friend Do the LittleThings Right Protect Your Capital When the Facts Turn Upside DownRely on CEOs Who Nurture Healthy Corporate Cultures Remember ThatLarge, Unfathomable Derivatives Are Still Financial Weapons of MassDestruction Seek Simplicity and Candor Millions of people downloadWarren Buffett’s shareholder letters, searching for tips from theworld’s greatest investor. Many miss the best part of his letter:his principles. It is their loss. Following these principles

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night hespent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and internationalglobe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht,crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to thewife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking,hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did hisbidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of theill-fated genius they called… In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notoriousinvestment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamousnames in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper wholed his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Streetand into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astoundingand hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story ofgreed, power, and excess no one could invent. Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, StrattonOakmont turned microcap investing into a wi

"Home Economics" reintroduces readers to all Grandma's thriftytips, down-home know-how, honest-to-goodness advice, and deliciousrecipes. Modeled on and compiled from vintage home-ec textbooks,this adorable guide contains everything needed to whip up and keepup a happy, healthy, and - most important - economical homelife.