Turn your fortunes around with a year’s worth of money-saving, life-improving tips! You don’t have to live like a recluse or deny yourself life’s luxuries. By spending less, you really can have more. It’s not just about saving the odd penny when you’re doing your grocery shopping – it’s about rediscovering the truly valuable things in life. Discover the power of less and create more time in your life to find the kind of happiness that money just can’t buy. From simple tactics such as never shopping on an empty stomach, to lesser-known tricks like importing goods to pay for your holiday, every tip will save you between 5 and 50,000. You will find 365 practical tips in the following areas to help you live on less, spend less, and be far richer and happier for it! Shopping Your house and your home More ways of saving or making money whenever you buy or sell property Your personal finances and savings Cut the cost of necessary household
Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing -- the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market -- aren't taught in school. At a time when individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic education in investing can have tragic consequences. For those who know what to look for, investment opportunities are everywhere. The average high-school student is familiar with Nike, Reebok, McDonald's, the Gap, and the Body Shop. Nearly every teenager in America drinks Coke or Pepsi, but only a very few own shares in either company or even understand how to buy them. Every student studies American history, but few realize that our country was settled by European colonists financed by public companies in England and Holland -- and the basic principles behi
Even before September 11, more and more of us were expressing dissatisfaction with the widening imbalance between our personal and professional lives--and our numbers have doubtlessly increased since that day. Pamela York Klainer, an executive coach and workplace consultant, had been watching this feeling grow among her clients, and How Much Is Enough? offers her well-considered strategy for bringing career and home life into better harmony. Klainer's underlying premise is that we all have a "money story," a lifelong ingrained perspective on capital and the possessions it can buy that establishes our directions in life and work, and eventually whether we are happy with the results. Utilizing tools like a "money autobiography," she offers a method to help us understand the way we truly feel about money and the amount of it we think we need to meet our own definition of success. More importantly, she then shows how knowledge of where such thinking originates, and how it evolves, can be used for adjusting action
CNBC anchor Insana (The Message of the Markets) has chronicled past investment fads and bubbles to provide lessons to prospective and current investors. He asserts that it's "not enough to study, observe and comment on financial folly." Investment fads will continue to happen, and by using historical information investors may recognize the signs of an impending bubble. The author devotes most of the chapters to describing the fads and bubbles that have occurred over the years, such as the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s, the feverish interest in plank road companies in the 1840s and 1850s, the surge in closed country funds in the late 1980s, and the bull market of the 1990s. The chapters "Trendwatching" and "Endwatching" offer advice on how to identify a mania while it is happening and describe the effects on the investor and the stock market when a bubble bursts. The last chapter contains questions and answers for analyzing the possibility of a future "hard asset" bubble. While well written and offering valid
It’s refreshing to encounter a title about world-famous investment wizard Warren Buffett that doesn’t paint him as a superhero. Despite his many successes, Buffett has made mistakes and not always taken the right steps, as recounted in this measured, objective account that scrutinizes Buffett’s techniques and presents investment fundamentals and strategies. Unfortunately, Casella’s reading is somewhat lackluster. His careful, almost phonetic enunciation of some phrases and sentences makes it seem as if he is seeing the text for the first time. Although monotonous might be too strong a word, his performance could use a little more spark. Casual listeners may tune out, but those who stick with this “penetrating look at Buffett” will gain insight into the respected businessman and learn more about investment strategies.
The world is facing many challenges and one of them is financial. The entitlement mentality is epidemic, creating people who expect their countries, employers, or families to take care of them. Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, both successful businessmen, are natural teachers and have joined forces to address these challenges. They believe you cannot solve money problems with money. You can only solve money problems with financial education. Trump and Kiyosaki want to teach you to be rich.
How can individual investors sort through the technical talk of Wall Street analysts, avoid self-serving nonsense, and find the gems that will guide them to the right stocks at the right time? Based on years of experience and extensive statistical analysis, Mitch Zacks' proven formulas allow the average investor to invest like pro.
Like the sayings of the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu inthe Tao Te Ching, Warren Buffett's worldly wisdom is deceptivelysimple and enormously powerful in application. In The Tao of WarrenBuffett, Mary Buffett joins noted Buffetologist and internationallecturer David Clark to bring you Warren Buffett's smartest,funniest and most memorable sayings, with an eye towards revealingthe life philosophies and the investment strategies that have madehim the world's most successful investor -- and the world's richestman. From serious investors to chronic over-spenders, this book canteach everyone some secrets of success.
Open the pages of the Fifth Edition of Essentials of Investments and you will clearly understand that the author team of Zvi Bodie,Alex Kane,and Alan Marcus if Committed to providign you the Material you need to Understand today's investments environment.
In late January, 2009, Robert Kiyosaki launched CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH - a free online book which was written in serial basis to help people understand how the current recession came about, and what they need to learn on how to survive through the coming rough years. An unprecedented publishing event for Kiyosaki and The Rich Dad Company, CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH is an interactive, "Wiki-style" project in which Kiyosaki has invited feedback, commentary, and questions from readers across the globe. The response so far has been totally fantastic. Millions and millions of readers have flocked to the website (www.conspiracyoftherich.com) to read what Robert has to say about the recession, and the readers have posted thousands of comments. Some of those reader comments will even be included in the final tradepaper version.
Are investment bankers the responsible guardians of free-market capitalism that they would have us believe? Or are they something more sinister altogether . . . necessary but dangerous players in our free-market economy? “Greed,” said Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, “is good.” But how good is it for capitalism if the major investment banks are basically an oligopoly, keeping their risks low and their profits artificially high? How good is it for companies that listen to their value-destroying advice? And how good is it for the average shareholder, who pays a huge price through portfolios that underperform and have a raft of hidden charges? Philip Augar worked in investment banking for more than twenty years and has since become a gadfly to the industry on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book reveals exactly how the investment banks make their money by acting simultaneously for buyers, sellers, and themselves while carefully avoiding fee-based competition with one another. T
For several years high-profile corporate wrongdoers have been vilified by the media. Yet the problem, according to Gary Weiss, is not just a few isolated instances of malfeasance. The problem is in the very fabric of Wall Street and its practices that enable and even encourage corruption—practices that are so pervasive and so difficult to combat that they are in effect perfect crimes, with the small investor left holding the bag. In this blistering report from the front, Weiss describes how the ethos of Mafia chophouses, boiler rooms, and penny stock peddlers now permeates all of Wall Street. Protected from investor lawsuits by laughably corrupt arbitration systems, Wall Street firms are free to fleece unsuspecting clients with little or no risk. But as this empowering book shows, ordinary investors can fight back and come out on top—if they learn to recognize warning signs, filter media chatter, and spot looming corporate meltdowns in advance. Prepare to be surprised, get angry, and t
The Last Partnerships narrates the rise and fall of the great financial houses--from the "Yankee Bankers" at the turn of the 19th century, up to Goldman Sachs's historic IPO in 1999-- tracing their origins, their successes and failures over the years, and the reasons for their ultimate demise.
The first authoritative history of hedge funds-fromtheir rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future offinance. Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedentedaccess to the industry, including three hundred hours ofinterviews, More Money Than God tells the inside story ofhedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to theirrole in the financial crisis of 2007- 2009. Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund mogulshave become the It Boys of twenty-first?century capitalism. KenGriffin of Citadel started out trading convertible bonds from hisdorm room at Harvard. Julian Robertson staffed his hedge fund withcollege athletes half his age, then he flew them to variousretreats in the Rockies and raced them up the mountains. Paul TudorJones posed for a magazine photograph next to a killer shark andhappily declared that a 1929- style crash would be "totalrock-and-roll" for him. Michael Steinhardt was capable of reducingunderlings to sobs. "All I want to do is kill myself,"
This book is about how we started with nothing and retired financially free in less than ten years. Find out how you can do the same. If you do not plan on working hard all of your life...this book is for you. Why not Retire Young and Retire Rich?
As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointingbegan. Should the blame fall on greedy traders, lazy regulators, orclueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean, author of thebestselling Enron book "The Smartest Guys in the Room", and JoeNocera, the star "New York Times" columnist, the real answer is allof the above. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy. Yetdespite all the analysis of the crash, no one has put all thepieces together and named those responsible. Until now.
THIS BOOK IS the latest and most current how-to book on how toget the best mortgage and the lowest interest rate out there.....The book is short, around 200 pages, so there is no room for fluffor filler. It is easy to read, set up in chapters and short essayson specific topics. A how-to book on real estate written by anattorney, 20 year veteran in the mortgage industry AND a collegelevel professor. The material is a combination of her classroomformat, her every day knowledge and expertise combined with reallife experiences to bring the point home. This works and you willlove it! A few interesting and favorite topics covered in 300 words orless: * What are the new guidelines for FICO scores and loan tovalues and how do they affect mortgage rates? * What is RapidRescore Response and can it really improve your credit score in 48hours? * How to get money from your 401k without a penalty * Whencan a loan from my father-in-law be called a gift? * Why is now soimportant to show as much money in reserves as you can
For the first time, business journalist Janet Lowe provides a lively and lucid introduction to financial genius Benjamin Graham's investment theories, presented in terms of both his life and his work.
Robert Kiyosaki reveals how he developed his unique economic perspective from his two fathers: his real father, who was highly educated but fiscally poor; and the father of his best friend - an eighth-grade drop-out who became a self-made multi-millionaire. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad". Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at the age of 47. This book lays out his philosophy and aims to open readers eyes by: exploding the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich; challenging the belief that your house is an asset; showing parents why they can't rely on schools to teach their children about money; defining once and for all an asset versus a liability; and explaining what to teach your children about money for their future financial success.
When retired telecommunications analyst Dan Reingold decided to write an account of what he'd seen while working for powerful Wall Street investment banks, he turned to his niece, a journalist at Fast Company and the author of Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Anderson, for help. Together, they've created a solid structure for his recollections of life in the trenches, but because he's one of the good guys, Reingold doesn't have much to confess. Beyond detailing every step in his upward career mobility, Reingold does little but gripe about people like his main competitor, Jack Grubman, who spent years flaunting insider connections with executives who would float him advance info on major corporate deals. (Grubman is currently a defendant in several securities fraud cases.) Reingold does suggest that insider influence is so pervasive in the financial market that investors should avoid individual stocks completely, and he has a number of recommendations for industry-wide reform, but in th
Despite financial turmoil, Goldman Sachs remain the leading investment bank in their field. They are notorious for their unique management culture, unorthodox recruiting techniques - and for their secrecy. In "The Partnership" Charles Ellis reveals their story. With unparalleled access to the leadership of this famously close-knit firm, Ellis investigates the brilliant individuals who turned a marginal family business into a global powerhouse, weathering recession, scandal and disaster on the way. Among them are high school dropout and financial genius Sidney Weinberg, maverick reinventor John Whitehead, former US treasury secretary Hank Paulson and working-class New Yorker turned current CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. "The Partnership" reveals the shared values of intensive recruitment, discipline and talent that have tied Goldman Sachs' people together - and made it a survivor.
For every new investor overwhelmed by the different investmentoptions, confounded by sophisticated financial jargon, andfrightened by market volatility, Andrew Horowitz is here to help.Each week in his "Winning Investor" podcast, Horowitz distils thelessons he has learned from over two decades of making clients richas a highly successful financial planner into accessible advice anyinvestor can use. Now, in "The Winning Investor's Guide to MakingMoney in Any Market", Horowitz presents the investing strategiesthat are the secret to his success. Readers will learn: what thebest available investment vehicles are and how they work; whicheconomic indicators to watch and why they matter for yourinvestments; how to protect your investments in down times and makethe most of your money in boom times; and, ways to apply theanalysis the pros use to uncover good investment opportunities. Inthe same straight shooting, accessible style that is the hallmarkof all his work, Horowitz helps readers identify their investmentgoa
lso available as a Time Warner AudioBook and eBook An overnight, word-of-mouth bestselling personal finance book phenomenon for millions of readers hoping to become masters of their money and create sustaining wealth for themselves and their families. Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences—his two fathers. One father (Robert's real father) was a highly educated man but fiscally poor. The other father was the father of Robert's best friend—that Dad was an eighth-grade dropout who became a self-made multimillionaire. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad." Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. RICH DAD, POOR DAD, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his philosophy behind Kiyosaki's relationship with money. RICH DAD, POOR DAD opens readers eyes by: Exploding the myth that