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

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

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money shows thatany numbskull can master personal finance. In this second edition,a father-and-daughter writing team, Robert K. Heady and ChristyHeady, give readers the best advice culled from their many years ofexperience in consumer rights and money management. The Headysbelieve that money must be managed for the long haul and that thereare no quick ways to build wealth. The guide is easy to read,witty, and scornful of the hype dished out by banks and otherpeddlers of personal finance. It provides a plethora ofpersonal-finance tips for consumers, including how to get the bestdeal on a mortgage, pay off debt, and bank online. --This textrefers to the Audio CD edition.

Investing is governed by unofficial rules, passed to investors through brokers, the financial press, and even fellow investors. For more than a decade, in two previous editions, Stock Market Rules has helped investors separate the most valuable of these maxims from the meaningless and even potentially harmful. But with recent market turbulence and scandals blindsiding millions of investors, the time has come for a new, updated edition.

"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.

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.

For investors at all levels. Completely updated, this practical guide has the informationinvestors need to keep up in the complex, fast-paced, and highlyprofitable world of options and futures, where everything is inplay—from oil to diamonds, poultry to vaccines, franchises tocoffee. ? Provides cutting edge information on energy futures andoptions ? Tools for creating flexible strategies that can move with thetimes ? New information on the solid standbys like livestock, preciousmetals, and equities ? Keyed to the new realities of the global economy, making thisbook vital for investors at all levels ? Highly respected expert author

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.

Forget credit card companies?— make it personal! The Complete Idiot?’s Guide? toPerson-to-Person Lending fills readers in on what they need toknow, such as how person-to-person lending works, who lends and whoborrows, and the advantages and disadvantages of Virgin- Money,Prosper, Zopa, and Facebook?’s Lending Club.M ?·Loans on Prosper and LendingClub rose to $100 million in 2007; by2010, the online banking report forecasts $1 billion in person to-person loan originations ?·Javelin Strategy Research (Dec. 2007) predicts that thedemand for person-to-person lending services may grow from $38billion to $159 billion over the next five years.

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.

Jean Chatzky has been working with viewers of NBC’s Today showfor a series on how to get out of debt once and for all. Hermethod, both on TV and in this book, is simple yet powerful: thekey is saving just $10 a day that you currently waste. It doesn’tsound like much—a movie ticket or lunch for two at McDonald’s— but$10 really can take you from debt to wealth in just a few years.And because it doesn’t feel like an impossible goal, people aremore likely to stick with Chatzky’s plan than an extreme regimen ofspending cutbacks. Chatzky is focusing on debt because it’s the single biggestthreat to our financial health. The average American family hassixteen credit cards and high-rate debt of more than $8000, noteven counting car loans and mortgages. They pay more than $1000 ayear in interest alone. Debt makes people feel depressed andoverwhelmed, leaving them without enough money for the trulyimportant things in life—education, retirement, owning a home,feeling secure. Chatzky,

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

Sound investment basics. Valueinvesting concentrates on business tangibles and common sense. Thisguide explains these strategies in clear, jargon-free terms, andgives advice on: the importance of knowing the four major parts ofa company?’s annual report and how to read them, how to listen forinsights into the company plans and performance during the CEO?’sdiscussion with analysts, and major strategic investment policiesthat drive value investing and how to select the one right for yourgoals. ?· From an expert financial writer ?· Red-hot investment strategy in this troubled financialclimate ?· Billionaire gurus like Warren Buffet advocate valueinvesting

When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as 'character'. Often his advice was very simple -- work hard, think for yourself, do right by others -- but I believe those lessons provided the foundation for everything that has followed in my life. Now that I'm a dad myself, I wanted to put them down in one place, with examples of my own experiences, as a guide to life, adventure, and investing, both for my young daughters and for anyone seeking success in his or her chosen field. I hope that parents will be inspired to give this book to their children, and vice versa, as many of the lessons that I have learned apply not just to young people but to all adults -- for example, question everything, never follow the crowd, and beware of boys -- A Gift to My Children .

With up-to-the-minute information . . . And an all-newpreface by the author! Out of the red . . . ? Do this month’s bills pile up before you’ve paid lastmonth’s? ? Do you regularly receive past-due notices? ? Do you get letters threatening legal action if immediate paymentis not made? ? Do the total amounts of your revolving charge accounts keeprising? Into the black . . . Whether you are currently in debt or fear you’re fallinginto debt, you are not alone. Sixty million Americans--from doctorsto secretaries, from executives to the unemployed--face the sameproblem and live under the same daily stress. Based on the proventechniques of the national Debtors Anonymous program, here is thefirst complete, step-by-step guide to getting out of debt once andfor all. You’ll learn: ? How to recognize the warning signs of serious debt ? How to negotiate with angry creditors, collection agencies, andthe IRS ? How to design a realistic and painless pay-back schedule ? How to identify your spending blind

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,"

Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stockmarket savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly?How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--overthe last five hundred years? Edward Chancellor examines the natureof speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist , Chancellorlooks at both the psychological and economic forces that drivepeople to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made,unmade, and manipulated; and who wins when speculation runsrampant. Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as SirIsaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky, and Hillary RodhamClinton, Devil Take the Hindmost is part history, partsocial science, and purely illuminating: an erudite and hugelyentertaining book that is more timely today than ever before.

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.

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.