When financial advisor Spencer Sherman found himself crossinga police line to retrieve his work files from a burning officebuilding, he realized he had money madness. He noticed it in hisclients, too: those irrational feelings about money that makeotherwise rational adults behave foolishly—buying high, sellinglow, overspending, lying to their spouses, equating theirself-worth with their net worth. Money madness stresses us out,poisons our relationships, and keeps us from making as much moneyas we can. So Spencer invented the cure. Now, in The Cure for MoneyMadness, he gives us the tools that have helped thousands of peoplefind greater peace of mind—and make more money. Money madness, Spencer shows us, comes from unproductive messagesthat we received long ago. “It takes money to make money.” “Payingrent is just throwing money down the drain.” “Don’t talk aboutmoney.” When you challenge the messages, you can transform allaspects of your money life: earning, spending, saving

Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America isstill beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger,more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever.Anchored by six megabanks—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase,Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley—whichtogether control assets amounting, astonishingly, to more than 60percent of the country’s gross domestic product, these financialinstitutions (now more emphatically “too big to fail”) continue tohold the global economy hostage, threatening yet another financialmeltdown with their excessive risk-taking and toxic “business asusual” practices. How did this come to be—and what is to be done?These are the central concerns of 13 Bankers, a brilliant,historically informed account of our troubled politicaleconomy. In 13 Bankers, Simon Johnson—one of the most prominent andfrequently cited economists in America (former chief economist ofthe International Monetary Fund, Professor of Entre

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

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With words like “recession” and “record unemployment” fillingthe air, the typical family–regardless of how the economy istreating them–will be paying attention to the budget. That’s why 99 Ways to Stretch Your Home Budget will receive a warmreception as it delivers scores of practical ideas to save casharound the house. Cheri Gillard , formerly an obstetrical and NICU nurse, is afreelance writer and editor, plus the mother of quadruplets.

If you read the original Buffettology, you know exactly half of what you need to know to effectively apply Warren Buffett's investment strategies. Published in 1997, the bestselling Buffettology was written specifically for investors in the midst of a long bull market. Since then we've seen the internet bubble burst, the collapse of Enron, and investors scrambling to move their assets -- what remains of them -- back to the safety of traditional blue chip companies. As price peaks turned into troughs, worried investors wondered if there was any constant in today's volatile market. The answer is yes: Warren Buffett's value investing strategies make money. T he New Buffettology is the first guide to Warren Buffett's selective contrarian investment strategy for exploiting down stocks -- a strategy that has made him the nation's second-richest person. Designed to teach investors how to decipher and use financial information the way Buffett himself does, this book guides investors through opportunity-rich bea

The intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of anAmerica icon With one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know asWall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culturethat most people only vaguely understand. The exception was MerrillLynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing WallStreet to Main Street, setting up offices in far-flung cities andtowns long ignored by the giants of finance. With its “thunderingherd” of financial advisers, perhaps no other business, whether infinancial services or elsewhere, so epitomized the American spirit.Merrill Lynch was not only “bullish on America,” it was a bigreason why so many average Americans were able to grow wealthy byinvesting in the stock market. Merrill Lynch was an icon. Its sudden decline, collapse, andsale to Bank of America was a shock. How did it happen? Why did ithappen? And what does this story of greed, hubris, and incompetencetell us about the culture of Wall Street that continues to

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.

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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.”

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial institutions -- and that's only the beginning. The financial services industry, and the many industries that depend on it -- from housing to cars -- is in intensive care. So what happened? How did we get to this point of financial disaster? Is the economy just a huge, Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme? It is a complicated and confusing story -- but Daniel Gross of Newsweek has a special gift for making complicated matters easy to understand and even entertaining. In Dumb Money, he offers a guide to the debacle and to what the future may hold. This is not so much a book about who did what, though that's part of the story. Rather, it pieces together the building blocks of the debt-f

Your Road to Lifelong Financial Independence It’s about time you felt empowered tobetter manage your money because–in tough economic times more thanever–your financial freedom depends on making smart choices. Butit’s hard to know where to begin, especially when you’re juststarting out. And of course, it only gets more complicated as yougo through life: How do you establish good credit? Do you buy orrent? What kinds of health coverage do you really need? How do youactually stay afloat in an uncertain market? The Wall Street Journal Guide to Starting YourFinancial Life gets you off on the right financial foot, fromtackling everyday choices like cell-phone plans and pet ownershipto big decisions such as smart investment strategies and buying acar or a house. You’ll learn: ? How to open your first checking and savingsaccounts, get your first credit card, and establish goodcredit ? The ins and outs of starting a job, includinginformation about taxes, choosing health insurance options,

The Devil's Derivatives charts the untold story of modernfinancial innovation--how investment banks invented new financialproducts, how investors across the world were wooed into buyingthem, how regulators were seduced by the political rewards of easycredit, and how speculators made a killing from the near-meltdownof the financial system. Author Nicholas Dunbar demystifies the revolution that brieflygave finance the same intellectual respectability as theoreticalphysics. He explains how bankers created a secret trillion-dollarmachine that delivered cheap mortgages to the masses and richesbeyond dreams to the financial innovators. Fundamental to this saga is how "the people who hated to lose"were persuaded to accept risk by "the people who loved to win." Whydid people come to trust and respect arcane financial tools? Whowere the bankers competing to assemble the basic components intoincreasingly intricate machines? How did this process achieve itsown unstoppable momentum, ending in collapse,

In this follow-up to his bestselling book, Using Technical Analysis, Clifford Pistolese reveals how to effectively apply technical analysis in your day-to-day trading decisions in order to select stocks with the greatest profit potential. Selecting Winning Stocks Using Technical Analysis gives you practical techniques and exercises for quickly evaluating stocks using simple methods of technical analysis. Pistolese shows you how to conduct your own independent research to obtain objective data and identify investment opportunities, allowing you to shed broker fees and avoid conflicts of interest. He provides expert advice on tactical trading errors, controlling your emotions, and steering clear of the “herd mentality,” as well as how to: Locate companies with effective business models Use free technical analysis resources on the Internet. Readjust your portfolio for bull, range-bound, and bear market phases. Diversify your investments to control risk. Recognize th

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball.Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-lifegeneral manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateurbaseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "thesingle most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) butalso what "may be the best book ever written on business" (WeeklyStandard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story.The story concerned a small group of undervalued professionalbaseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected asunfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one ofthe most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But theidea for the book came well before I had good reason to writeit-before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really,with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams inbaseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? With thesewords Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, andm

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.

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.

Let’s face it: you can't avoid death or taxes. But you can create an estate plan that will make both a whole loteasier for your loved ones and put you in control of howyour assets will get passed to your heirs. Here, Wall Street Journal personal-finance reporter RachelEmma Silverman walks you step-by-step through the process.Chock-full of clear and solid advice on how to get the most out ofthe main estate planning tools - including wills, trusts, lifeinsurance, guardianship papers, and powers-of-attorney documents -the Wall Street Journal Complete Estate-Planning Guidebook will help make your estate-planning process as simple, smooth, andunintimidating as possible. This book will help you: · Clarify your estate-planning goals,such as dividing up property for heirs, reducing taxes or leavingmoney for charity · Understand the key estate-planningdocuments you’ll need, including wills, beneficiary-designationforms, powers-of-attorney and health-care advance directives · Decode the

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The time was the1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’sPoker. Michael Lewis wasfresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when helanded a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premierinvestment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose fromcallow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firmand cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is theculmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes lookat a unique and turbulent time in American business. From thefrat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to thekiller instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything ona high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is MichaelLewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedentedera of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

"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.

“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” --Warren Buffett In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in anopulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in apoker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbersmeant nothing to them. They were accustomed to riskingbillions. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric,whip-smart whiz kid who’d studied theoretical mathematics atPrinceton and now managed a fabulously successful hedge fund calledPDT…when he wasn’t playing his keyboard for morning commuters onthe New York subway. With him was Ken Griffin, who as anundergraduate trading convertible bonds out of his Harvard dormroom had outsmarted the Wall Street pros and made money in one ofthe worst bear markets of all time. Now he was thetough-as-nails head of Citadel Investment Group, one of the mostpowerful money machines on earth. There too were Cliff Asness, thesharp-tongued, mercurial founder of the hedge fund AQR, a man asf

The bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host of"The Money Game" has helped thousands through his 12-week financialplanning program. His workbook format allows readers to frequentlyassess their progress and to face their situation honestly by usingthe questionnaires and fill-in charts throughout the book--the mostvaluable purchase a debt-ridden reader could ever make.