$700 Billion Bailout

Many people are both alarmed and confused by what they've heard about the '$700 billion bailout. They're worried about their savings, their jobs and their homes. This audio provides an understandable analysis on how the bailout bill impacts you, and offers 'to do' or 'not to do' steps for you to follow. It is a must have for all investors. Best selling author Paul Muolo has been reporting and writing on the mortgage crisis for some two decades and brings his seasoned and skeptical approach to his work. He has access to the key players in the banking, mortgage and Washington world, often breaking 'scoops' before other journalists. Here, Muolo offers an unbiased view on how Wall Street got mixed up in the world of mortgages, and unravels what was going on behindthe scenes in the housing and mortgage industry for much of the past decade. In his analysis of the controversial Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Muolo explains in easy to understand language what the bailout bill means for individuals and answers such questions as: What does the bill say, exactly? Who is making decisions about how the $700 billion will be spent, and what does it mean now that the government is investing directly in our banks? Who's footing the bill? What is the impact on homeowners, businesses, retirement, and taxes? Where do I put my money in the meantime? Muolo shows both the challenges and opportunities of the credit crisis and proposed bailout, including its impact on: Mortgages: While rates may be lower, there will be more fees. Lenders will be more cautious in lending, and people who cannot meet their mortgages are likely to lose these homes. This may create 'contrarian' plays in foreclosures and vacation homes. Stocks and Other Investments: Is now the time to get into the stock market or is it safer to stick with CDs, bonds, and gold? Författare: Paul Muolo

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

A Hedge Fund Tale of Reach and Grasp

A Hedge Fund Tale of Reach and Grasp recounts the ecstasy and the agony of investors in the hubris filled years of the great secular bull market and the terrors of the financial collapse. It is a story of personal and investment triumph and tragedy in the tradition of An American Tragedy and Bonfire of the Vanities. Though the tale is fiction, it is faithful to the actual market events of the decade of hedge fund madness and the ensuing destruction in the great bear market of 2007–2009 and its aftermath. In A Hedge Fund Tale of Reach and Grasp, the former top ranked global strategist for Morgan Stanley, and now a hedge fund manager, expertly weaves fact and fiction to describe how the mysterious world of hedge funds and the people who run them really works. It is the story of how the brilliant but toxic interaction of brains, intensity, raw ambition, hubris, and greed combined with the “perform or perish” creed to fuel the egregious excesses and, eventually, contribute to the bursting of the stock market and financial bubbles. Lifestyles, portfolios, and loves were recklessly leveraged creating stunning excesses, but when the world turned, it wasn't just proud fortunes that were lost; relationships and souls were ravaged as well. There is a compelling, but tragic, love story here about two people who celebrated love as a solution to spiritual isolation. The novel is also an investment chronicle, a tragic saga of how all brilliant performance is transitory and how, unfortunately, there is no stock market strategy that works forever and that too much money can't spoil. The protagonist is Joe Hill, an authentic American hedge fund success story if there ever was one, who came from nowhere, reached for heaven, and momentarily grasped it. Joe Hill isn't the typical Wall Street whiz kid sporting an Ivy League education. Born on the wrong side of the tracks in rural Virginia, Joe had to work for everything he wanted. And he wanted it all. A masterful mix of fact and fiction, A Hedge Fund Tale of Reach and Grasp is the inside, rags to riches story of one man's American dream that became the world's financial nightmare. Författare: Barton Biggs

Uppläsare: Don Hagen

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold

One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity—which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author—you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days. With the proliferation of financial instruments, new areas of instability, and innovative capital market strategies, many economists and investors have lost sight of the fundamentals of the financial system—its strengths as well as its weaknesses. A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold takes you back to the beginning and sorts out all the pieces. Peter Bernstein skillfully addresses how and why commercial banks lend and invest, where money comes from, how it moves from hand to hand, and the critical role of interest rates. He explores the Federal Reserve System and the consequences of the Fed's actions on the overall economy. But this book is not just about the past. Bernstein's novel perspective on gold and the dollar is critical for today's decision makers, as he provides extensive views on the future of money, banking, and gold in the world economy. This illuminating story about the heart of our economic system is essential reading at a time when developments in finance are more important than ever. Författare: Peter Bernstein

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Attract Money Now

AT LAST! The Breakthrough Proven New Way to ATTRACT MONEY NOW Guaranteed! Need money? Attract Money Now is the perfect blueprint for breaking free from debt, lack, struggle and fear. This is the exact same blueprint Dr. Joe Vitale used to go from a homeless nobody to a multimillionaire celebrity. It is a spiritual and practical system that will work for YOU. In this inspiring new audio book, Dr. Joe Vitale—bestselling author and star of the hit movie The Secret—walks you through his easy system for attracting money using the Law of Attraction and Law of Right Action. Attract Money Now reveals an easy, proven, 7 step formula you can use today to begin attracting money, getting out of debt, and ending the struggle once and for all. Dr. Vitale's system has nothing to do with real estate, investing, or saving for a rainy day. Instead, Attract Money Now reveals a spiritual and practical way to erase limiting beliefs, do what you love, and get into the cash flow that makes life easy and luxurious for all. You'll learn: • The proven 7 step formula to attract money FAST that will work for YOU • How to conquer key hidden beliefs that are pushing money away from you • How to use the proven “tapping” technique to get cash flowing fast • One of the best kept secrets of the wealthy for attracting money easily • How the rich think differently than you regarding money • A brand new secret for spending in a sway that leads to attracting money • The two little known levels for asking for money—that always works • How to set up multiple streams of income based on doing what you love • The one thing to do that will ALWAYS lead to more money • 29 ways to attract money NOW! You'll love listening to this refreshing audio book that frees you to have the life you want—for yourself, your family, and the world. Dr. Vitale says, “If you want the world to be happier, contribute one happy, healthy and wealthy person t it: YOU. One person at a time, we can transform the planet.” Listen to Attract Money Now and discover the secret of being free! Författare: Joe Vitale

Uppläsare: Don Hagen

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Bank On Yourself

Would You Like to Substantially Increase the Wealth You Have Available to Use and Enjoy Throughout Your Lifetime—Without Gambling Your Hard Earned Money in Stocks, Real Estate, or Other Risky Investments? As the prospect of a secure financial future and a comfortable retirement becomes increasingly remote for many, and experts are concluding that conventional investing and financial planning strategies aren't working, Pamela Yellen reveals an extraordinary, little known but time tested method for growing wealth safely and predictably, even when the stock and real estate markets and other investments tumble. In this audio book, Yellen reveals the secrets to taking back control of your financial future that Wall Street, banks, and credit card companies don't want you to know. You'll discover how to: • Have a rock solid financial plan and a predictable retirement income that can last as long as you do—with no luck, skill or guesswork required • Turn your back on the stomach churning twists and turns of the stock and real estate markets • Get back every penny you pay for your cars, vacations, home repairs, business equipment, a college education, and other major purchases, so you can enjoy more of life's luxuries today without robbing your nest egg! (The average family could increase their lifetime wealth by $500,000 to $1,000,000 or more using this method, without the risk or volatility of stocks and real estate) • Become your own source of financing and recapture the interest you pay to banks and finance companies—reduce or eliminate the control those institutions have over you. Författare: Pamela Yellen

Uppläsare: Pamela, Sean Yellen, Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

CAPITAL IDEAS EVOLVING

In all of history and in all fields of intellectual endeavor, a tension has existed between theory and practice. Those who earn a living in the real world seldom want to appear as slaves to some set of abstract ideas. It was no surprise, therefore, that the word “baloney” was Wall Street's greeting to the pioneering theories of finance developed by a small group of academics from 1954 1972. Yet those breakthrough theories would in time earn five Nobel Prizes in Economic Science. Baloney they were not. Bernstein, today's foremost financial historian expands here upon his groundbreaking book of 1992, Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street, to recount how these financial theories finally migrated from towers of ivory to towers of glass on Wall Street and other financial centers around the world. The result has been a global revolution in the nature of financial markets, the menu of investment strategies, the development of exotic financial instruments, and the role of an uncertain future in all investment decisions. Even the academics who originally developed these theories are active today in the markets and in the creation of new financial structures and strategies. Based on personal interviews with leading practitioners and theorists, this audio describes how today's key practical applications developed from the core ideas of finance theory into the new and exciting formats of the investment process found in today's environment. This engaging and insightful audio book brings to life the individuals, ideas and issues that are transforming the financial landscape. Författare: Peter Bernstein

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Capitalism 4.0

Capitalism was not destroyed by the crisis, but it was irrevocably changed. This provocative audio book shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown of 2007 2009 are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system. This system will continue to be led and shaped by the U.S. if its businesses and politicians play their cards well. The crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers marked the fourth systemic transformation of capitalism since the late eighteenth century. The first of these great transitions launched the century of classical capitalism from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great Depression. The second version of capitalism emerged in the 1930s with the New Deal and government led Keynesian economics, but blew up in the great inflation of the 1970s. That crisis launched the third age of capitalism starting with the elections of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in 1979 1980. This business led period culminated in the “market fundamentalist” excesses of George W. Bush, Alan Greenspan, and Henry Paulson. Market fundamentalism collapsed in 2008, but the crash has brought into play capitalism's unerring instinct for self preservation. As a result, the next version of the capitalist system is now evolving: Capitalism 4.0. But as the global economy is reinvented, will American led democratic capitalism or Chinese style state capitalism prevail? In this wide ranging and controversial audio book, Anatole Kaletsky puts the upheavals of 2007 2009 in historical and ideological perspective. He describes the emerging features of the new capitalist model, explains how it will differ from previous versions, and suggests how the rise of Capitalism 4.0 could change politics, finance, international relations, and economic thinking in the coming decades. Författare: Anatole Kaletsky

Uppläsare: Scott Peterson

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Chain of Blame

In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, 50 lenders a month were going bust and the people responsible for the crisis included not just unregulated loan brokers and con artists, but also investment bankers and home loan institutions traditionally perceived as completely trustworthy. Chain of Blame chronicles this incredible disaster, with a specific focus on the players who participated in such a fundamentally flawed fiasco. Acclaimed financial reporters Muolo and Padilla go behind the headlines to expose the truth about how this crisis occurred, what individuals and institutions from lenders and brokers to some of the biggest investment banks in the world were doing during this critical time, who is ultimately responsible for what happened, and perhaps more importantly, why everyone was so taken by surprise. The authors reveal how human behavior and greed drove the demand, supply, and the investor appetite for these types of loans and how Wall Street was all too willing to satisfy the desires of those who should have known better. Författare: Paul Muolo,Mathew Padilla

Uppläsare: Walter Dixon

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Crash Proof 2.0

The economic and monetary disaster, which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff warned of in the best selling first edition of Crash Proof, is no longer hypothetical it is here today. And while most people believe that the economic collapse is over, the reality is that it has only just begun. That's why he's returned with Crash Proof 2.0. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients restructure their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees today is a nation facing a growing economic storm brought on by bursting bubbles and growing federal, personal, and corporate debt that will only continue to intensify as the U.S. government refuses to allow market forces to repair the damage. Crash Proof 2.0 picks up right where the first edition which clearly foresaw the bursting of the real estate bubble, credit crunch, and the insolvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac left off and includes much more up to the minute analysis and advice. This timely guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides you with valuable insights that will allow you to protect yourself, as well as prosper, during the difficult times that lie ahead. Throughout, Schiff explains the factors that will affect your future financial stability from the bubble in bond prices and collapse of the dollar to surging long term interest rates and run away inflation and offers a specific three step plan to battle today's economic downturn and tomorrow's market mayhem. Författare: Peter D. Schiff

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Crashes, Crises, and Calamities

Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain. But science can help foretell what lies ahead. Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, Crashes, Crises, and Calamities offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories. In accessible prose, Len Fisher demonstrates how we can foresee and manage events that might otherwise catch us by surprise. At the cutting edge of science, Fisher helps us find ways to act before a full fledged catastrophe is upon us. Crashes, Crises, and Calamities is a witty and informative exploration of the chaos, complexity, and patterns of our daily lives. Författare: Len Fisher

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Credit 911

Truth is, there's no secret to spending and saving wisely. Rather, living a financially secure lifestyle is as simple as taking time proven steps today to solve past credit problems, while also preparing for a financially successful future. Others have done it. Anyone can do it. So can you. You just need someone to show you how. In Credit 911, Rodney Anderson does just that. Rodney tackles tough topics such as how to navigate through marriage, divorce, bankruptcy, foreclosure, dealing with collection agencies, the dangers and pitfalls of online shopping, protecting consumers' identities, and many others that get to the heart of America's financial and credit meltdown. A consumer credit expert, host of CBS Radio's Saving Your Financial Life with Rodney Anderson, and the creator of the Medical Debt Relief Act of 2009, Rodney Anderson provides people of all ages and skill levels with a powerful set of strategies for surviving the current credit crunch and solving a wide range of common credit problems. Whether you're facing foreclosure, bankruptcy, or mounting debt, or you're looking for ways to secure your financial future, Credit 911 can show you how to: • Deal with collection agencies on your own terms • Understand the credit system from an insider's perspective • Defend against the deceptive practices of credit card companies • Boost your credit score and effectively monitor your credit • Find your financial Mr. or Mrs. Right • Avoid financial disaster when getting divorced • Pick the right mortgage lender and Realtor • Recover from bankruptcy and foreclosure With over twenty years of experience advising real people on their very real credit problems, Rodney Anderson possesses an intricate understanding of what it takes to manage money effectively and to take control of one's financial life. And, after listening to Credit 911, so will you. Författare: Rodney Anderson

Uppläsare: Don Hagen

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Debt-Free U

This Audio Book Can Save You More Than $100,000 These days, most people assume you need to pay a boatload of money for a quality college education. As a result, students and their parents are willing to go into years of debt and potentially sabotage their financial futures just to get a fancy name on a diploma. But Zac Bissonnette is walking proof that the assumption is not only false, but dangerous. From his unique double perspective—he's a personal finance expert (at AOL Money & Finance) AND a current senior at the University of Massachusetts—Zac figured out how too get an outstanding education at a public college, without bankrupting his parents or taking on loans. Armed with his personal knowledge, the latest data, and smart analysis, Zac takes on the sacred cows and conventional wisdom about choosing and financing college. You'll discover, for instance, that: • Student loans are NOT a necessary evil. Ordinary middle class families can—and must—find ways to avoid them, even without scholarships. • College “rankings” are useless—designed to sell magazines and generate hype, if you trust one of the major guides when picking a college, you face a potential financial disaster. • The elite graduate programs accept lots of people with nonelite bachelor's degrees. So do America's most selective employers. Zac can prove every one of hose bold assertions—and more. He has a simple message for parents: “RELAX! Your kid will be able to get a champagne education on a beer budget!” Författare: Zac Bissonnette

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Economist on Wall Street

One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity, which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author, you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days. Peter Bernstein's Economist on Wall Street is a collection of writings from 1955 to 1970. The audio book is especially interesting because so many of Bernstein's observations reflect the most important issues of the present—the outlook for inflation and its control, the intricacies of monetary policy, the future of the dollar, and the dilemmas of household finances. Bernstein was also concerned with developments in portfolio management, including the new influence of institutional investors and rules for optimal asset mixes. He provides light touches, too, as he indulges in fantasies and philosophical musings over a wide variety of topics. With so many years of hindsight, we should not be surprised to find some of Bernstein's predictions running awry. But why? In each instance, these forecasts were biased by memories of the past. There is a big lesson to be learned there. Economist on Wall Street is a remarkable audio book, with lasting relevance and keen insights into the art of investment management, the capital markets, gold and the dollar, and the fun of being alive. Författare: Peter Bernstein

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Eight Pillars of Prosperity

It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realization of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can give prosperity to, nay it cannot prevent the ruin of, a man or a nation that has become lax and decadent in the pursuit and practice of virtue. The moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul of greatness. They endure forever, and all the works of man which endure are built upon them. Without them there is neither strength, stability, nor substantial reality, but only ephemeral dreams. To find moral principles is to have found prosperity, greatness, truth, and is therefore to be strong, valiant, joyful and free. James Allen Bryngoleu, Ilfracombe, England Författare: James Allen

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Ethical Wisdom

Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil. Mark Matousek arrives at the answer in Ethical Wisdom. Contrary to what we've been taught in our reason obsessed culture, emotions are the bedrock of ethical life; without them, human beings cannot be empathic, moral, or good. But how do we make the judgment call between self interest and caring for others? What does being good really mean? Which parts of morality are biological, which ethical? When should instinct be trusted and when does it lead us into trouble? How can we know ourselves to be good amidst the hypocrisy, fears, and sabotaging appetites that pervade our two sided natures? Drawing on the latest scientific research and interviews with social scientists, spiritual leaders, ex cons, altruists, and philosophers, Matousek examines morality from a scientific, sociological, and anthropological standpoint. Each chapter features a series of questions, readings, interviews, parables, and anecdotes that zoom in on a particular niche of moral inquiry, making this audio book both utilitarian and fun. Ethical Wisdom is an insightful and important book for listeners crisscrossing their own murky moral terrain. Författare: Mark Matousek

Uppläsare: Mark Matousek

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Fast Profits in Hard Times

In FAST PROFITS IN HARD TIMES, Jordan Goodman provides a wealth of 5 minute tips for earning extra income the easy way, without unnecessary risk or extra legwork. Find out about: • 100 stocks that offer free premiums if you reinvest their dividends • How to profit from Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) quickly and safely • Tax liens, which can provide risk free interest of up to 25% • Trading stock options and how it can be, contrary to popular belief, very low risk with the right knowledge and tools • Financial investment clubs and how they can help you gain leverage in the market Författare: Jordan Goodman

Uppläsare: Jordan Goodman

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Future Babble

In Future Babble, award winning journalist Dan Gardner presents landmark research debunking the whole expert prediction industry and explores our obsession with the future. In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; it then plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world's fastest growing economy by 2000; by 2000, the USSR no longer existed. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe—we all know how that turned out. The truth is that experts are about as accurate as dart throwing monkeys. And yet, every day we ask them to predict the future—everything from the weather to the likelihood of a catastrophic terrorist attack. Here is the first book to examine this phenomenon, showing why our brains yearn for certainty about the future, why we are attracted to those who predict it confidently, and why it's so easy for us to ignore the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts. How good you are at predicting the future doesn't depend on your education or experience. It depends on how you think: like a fox or like a hedgehog. Foxes know a little about a lot of things. They have doubts. They often sound wishy washy. And you don't see them on television much. On the other hand, hedgehogs know a lot about one thing. They are absolutely certain. They are confident. Almost every popular expert you can think of is a hedgehog. And they are experts at explaining away predictions they made that turned out to be wrong. For real insight into what is coming next, you need to consult foxes and think like one, too. Future Babble explains in detail what that means, and how you can tell foxes and hedgehogs apart. In this example packed, sometimes darkly hilarious audio book, journalist Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by UC Berkeley professor Philip Tetlock proved that the more famous a pundit is, the more likely he is to be right about as often as a stopped watch. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics in delivering this reassuring message: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near. Författare: Dan Gardner

Uppläsare: Walter Dixon

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Go-Givers Sell More

Applying the lessons of the bestselling parable The Go Giver to real world situations The Go Giver took the business world by storm with its message that giving is the most fulfilling and most effective path to success. It has inspired more than 125,000 readers—but some have wondered how the story's lessons stand up to the tough challenges of everyday, real world business. Now Bob Burg and John David Mann answer that question in Go Givers Sell More, a practical guide that makes giving the cornerstone of a powerful and effective approach to selling. Most of us think of sales as convincing potential customers to believe or do something they don't really want to. But that cutthroat mentality makes the process much harder than it has to be—especially in an economic downturn, when customers are more suspicious and defensive. It's far more productive (and satisfying) when salespeople think like Go Givers and focus exclusively on creating value for the customer. Cultivate a trusting relationship and provide outstanding service, say the authors, and great results will follow automatically. Illustrating their points with a wide range of real life examples, Burg and Mann offer tips and strategies that anyone in sales can start applying right away. Visit www.GoGiversSellMore.com Författare: Bob Burg,John Mann

Uppläsare: Bob, John Burg, Mann

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Goodbye Gordon Gekko

We never really know how it's going to turn out. One day a community organizer, the next day President. One day CEO of Lehman Brothers, the next day the piñata for greed and ambition run amok. Life is full of decisions, choices, and unexpected twists and turns; how you pick yourself up and react to thee unanticipated circumstances will make all the difference. According to author Anthony Scaramucci, it is time to say goodbye to Gordon Gekko, the rogue character famously portrayed by Michael Douglas in the classic movie Wall Street. In Goodbye Gordon Gekko, Scaramucci explores opportunities for leading a rich life in a difficult, radically changed economy. Believing that the financial crisis was caused by a nation of Gekko wannabes tripped up by status anxiety and egocentric tendencies, he argues that you can be happy and financially profitable as ling as you stay true to yourself and stick to your values and principles. Scaramucci offers hope, urging you to pass through the happily ever after portal so that you can find your fortune and all that is fortunate. With years of experience at Goldman Sachs, and having co founded two successful alternative investment management companies, the author provides a behind the scenes view of life on Wall Street—the wins and the losses, the rights and the wrongs, the successes and the failures, the good mentors and the difficult colleagues. Through these entertaining and insightful stories, featuring advice from a diverse cast of characters ranging from Li Ka shing to John Weinberg to his Italian nana, Scaramucci identifies the temptations and roadblocks that accompany our professional ambitions and personal choices, revealing the rules for leading a profitable and fortunate life. What does this mean in practical terms? As Scaramucci shows, it means ridding yourself of egotistical tendencies and developing the self awareness to bounce back from failure. It means building a circle of competence made of those you trust, mentoring and celebrating others, and giving back to your company and country, all the while targeting success. It means seeing capitalism as an art and businesses as creations and vocations, not simply as levers to feeding your ego. Goodbye Gordon Gekko provides a road map to help people achieve true wealth defined beyond a checking account. Författare: Anthony Scaramucci

Uppläsare: Walter Dixon

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Green Recovery

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to end before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital—and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and strategic priorities. Part manifesto and part how to guide, this concise and engaging audio book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short term gains and position your company for long term strategic growth. You'll discover how to: • Get lean: Amp up your energy and resource efficiency to survive tough times. • Get smart: Use environmental data about products and supply chains for competitive advantage. • Get creative: Rejuvenate your innovation efforts by asking heretical questions such as “How might we operate with no fossil fuels?” • Get going: Engage and excite employees to solve the company's, your customers', and the world's environmental challenges. Green Recovery is your guide to establishing your competitive positioning in difficult times and emerging even stronger into a vastly changed economy. Författare: Andrew Winston

Uppläsare: Andrew Winston

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street

Investing is simple, but never easy. We carry a lot of investment baggage, including hot tips from friends and the financial media, as well as complicated financial recommendations from Wall Street 'experts.' Yet the biggest obstacle we face is the tendency to outsmart ourselves. In order to overcome this obstacle, you need to follow straightforward strategies that will consistently push your portfolio ahead of the pack by an additional 3 to 4 percent annually. These are strategies that work in up markets and especially in times of market crisis and panic. Most importantly, these strategies are basic enough for even a kid to understand. Follow the story of Kevin Roth—an eight year old who was schooled in simple approaches to sound investing by his father, a seasoned financial planner—and discover how simple it can be to become a successful investor. Learn how to create a portfolio with the widest diversification and lowest costs; one that can move up your financial freedom by a decade and dramatically increase your spending rate during retirement. Hear about fresh new approaches to investing. Listen as they debunk the financial myths and legends that many of us accept as true and show you what it really takes to build long term wealth with less risk. You'll also learn how not to confuse the unlikely with the impossible. Whether you're young or young at heart, the straight talking advice found here will help you: • Design a portfolio composed of a few basic building blocks that can be 'tweaked' to fit your personal needs • Go beyond indexing, which owns the entire market, and actually beat the market • Reengineer your portfolio to stop needlessly paying taxes • Increase your return, regardless of which direction the market goes, by picking the 'low hanging fruit' we all have in our portfolios Engaging and insightful, How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street takes you through Kevin Roth's real life story, while driving home key strategies and tools you can implement in your own portfolio. With just a little time and a little work, you can become a better investor. With this audio book as your guide, you'll discover how a simpler approach to today's markets can put you on the path to financial independence. For more information, visit www.SecondGraderPortfolio.com. Författare: Allan Roth

Uppläsare: Scott Peterson

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

In Cheap We Trust

Cheap. Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, she realized she had turned into him. In this lively treatise on the virtues of being cheap, Weber explores provocative questions about Americans' conflicted relationship with consumption and frugality. Why do we ridicule people who save money? Where's the boundary between thrift and miserliness? Is thrift a virtue or a vice during a recession? And was it common sense or obsessive compulsive disorder that made her father ration the family's toilet paper? In answering these questions, In Cheap We Trust offers a colorful ride through the history of frugality in the United States. Readers will learn the stories behind Ben Franklin and his famous maxims, Hetty Green (named 'the world's greatest miser' by the Guinness Book of Records) and the stereotyping of Jewish and Chinese immigrants as cheap. Weber also explores contemporary expressions and dilemmas of thrift. From Dumpster diving to economist John Maynard Keynes's 'Paradox of Thrift' to today's recession driven enthusiasm for frugal living, In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending every last penny. Författare: Lauren Weber

Uppläsare: Marguerite Gavin

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

It's Not as Bad as You Think

Even with the economy feeling a little bit better, there is a real fear that markets will stay down and things won't ever get back to normal. But a few brave voices say that this attitude is just too pessimistic. Capitalism has not failed. And it's not time to just give up—on free markets or a better tomorrow. History shows that every time the economy was thought to be done, worn out, finished, it bounced back. The economy is not as fragile as the pessimists think. In fact, things are already improving. Even housing is showing signs of life. With It's Not as Bad as You Think, Brian Wesbury, ranked as one of the top economic forecasters by the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, shows you that the future is much brighter than you think. A great confluence of negativity and government mistakes dragged attitudes and the economy down, but this won't last. With this easy to follow analysis of tomorrow and guide through yesterday, Wesbury debunks the pouting pundits of pessimism to show you how to prosper now and in the future. Chapter by chapter, It's Not as Bad as You Think: • Reveals the real reasons behind the 'Panic of 2008' and why it seems so much more severe than past crises • Uncovers a history of entrepreneurship that you should trust • Explains how a V shaped recovery can take place and how wealth you had thought you lost can be found again • Calls out the press for being overly negative about capitalism and shows how government policy compounded economic problems in 2008 And much more A breath of fresh air, Wesbury's objectivity and optimism provide welcome relief to the daily bad news stories. So if you need an antidote to conventional wisdom and are willing to look beyond the events that have already occurred, pick up It's Not as Bad as You Think and discover how you can capitalize on the profitable possibilities of tomorrow. Författare: Brian Wesbury

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Little Book of Sideways Markets

With the stock market turning into a roller coaster ride of all time highs and stomach churning lows, where does that leave your portfolio? Pretty much back where you started in 2000. Which may be fine for visitors to Six Flags, but for your retirement, savings, and investments, you'd like to actually get somewhere. In The Little Book of Sideways Markets, respected value investor and author Vitaliy Katsenelson show you how to survive a stagnant market that's neither bull nor bear but instead what he calls a cowardly lion—it displays occasional bursts of bravado but is ultimately overcome by fear. Katsenelson, known for the commonsense principles he has written frequently about in the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Businessweek and elsewhere, decodes the theories and cuts to the chase with practical and timely strategies for how you can survive and thrive during the sideways market—a state of affairs, by the way, we should expect for the next decade. He'll show you: • Why your investments will stall in neutral and what to do about it • Why, despite its place as the Rodney Dangerfield of investing, you should treat mean reversion with respect • Why Tevye was a rich man—and what you can learn from his purchase of Golde, the cow • How the dire state of economic affairs in China and Japan will impact your investments, and what to do about it • The three crucial concepts of value investing—Quality, Growth, and Valuation • How focus on process, boring as it may sound, leads to success • Why you should become a born again value investor • How to break bad habits and find, buy and sell stocks in a sideways market Making progress in a sideways market is difficult, but the lively and entertaining Little Book of Sideways Markets will help you triumph even when the market is stalled. Författare: Vitally Katsenelson

Uppläsare: Erik Synnestvedt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Live It Love It Earn It

LOVE YOUR MONEY AND IT WILL LOVE YOU BACK! Does your heart race when your credit card bill arrives? Are you one flat tire or one emergency room visit away from financial ruin? If you think a secure financial future is out of reach, you're wrong. Let Marianna Olszewski teach you how to love your money instead of running scared from it. Marianna didn't start out rich, happy, and fabulous. Strapped for cash beginnings motivated her to strive for abundance and financial independence—goals she exceeded by age thirty as the founder of a multimillion dollar business and one of the most respected women on Wall Street. Now Marianna reveals the lessons she learned on her own road to success and the savvy strategies of other amazing women. She shows how to let go of stress, break your bad money habits, take control of your finances, and finally achieve your goals and a happier, richer life. You'll learn to: Say Yes to Yourself: Turn toward people and situations that enhance your life and well being and away from those that don't. Until you start affirming your future through both thought and action, your efforts to improve your finances will fall flat. Fall in Love with Your Money: Having a cavalier attitude toward money is part of the reason many of us find ourselves in a financial pickle. But when you treat your money with respect, keep track of it, and spend and save it wisely, your money will always love you back. Act As If: If you think that change is impossible, think again. Start your transformation by acting as if you already are as successful and prosperous as you want to be. Live It, Love It, Earn It is full of true stories of ordinary women who have overcome tough challenges, such as climbing the corporate ladder, getting out of debt, and changing jobs midcareer, to get the life they want. Marianna also shares insights from other successful women like designer Diane von Furstenberg; shoe mogul Tamara Mellon (of Jimmy Choo); fashion entrepreneur Tory Burch; the first woman to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, Muriel Seibert; and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn. Let Marianna give you the tools you need to create and maintain an abundant and fulfilling life. Författare: Marianna Olszewski

Uppläsare: Marianna Olszewski

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Master Your Debt

The world of borrowing and debt management has changed dramatically, leaving people confused about how best to secure their financial future. This audio book is the only guide with detailed advice to help you become debt free or master the debt you have, based on the latest laws and new government programs and policies implemented under the Obama administration. Is the information and advice on debt management different than in years past? Definitely, and in this savvy, engaging guide, bestselling author and financial expert Jordan Goodman will show you how to: •Win the mortgage game: avoid foreclosure, obtain the best refinancing, and modify your mortgage even if it's “under water” • Clean up your credit report and dramatically boost your credit score •Negotiate new terms and payments for burdensome medical bills, student loans, and credit cards • Protect yourself from the devastation of identity theft • Master new credit card rules, and avoid the rate and fee traps • Learn a revolutionary strategy that will help you become mortgage free in five to seven years, change the way you pay all your bills, and save hundreds of thousands of dollars Master Your Debt contains many pioneering strategies as it lays out an innovative plan for achieving the elusive goal of financial success. This reliable resource is filled with helpful Web sites, toll free numbers, association and government agencies, and vetted companies and services to help you implement the advice offered here. In today's volatile economy, getting out of debt is the key to surviving and thriving, and with this audio book, Jordan Goodman provides you with the strategies and tools to live debt free. Författare: Jordan Goodman

Uppläsare: Jordan Goodman

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Money From Anywhere

This audio book will show you, step by step, how to quickly and easily set up and run your own profitable online business and 'make money from anywhere.' Best selling author Pat O'Bryan (Your Portable Empire), along with multiple best seller Dr. Joe Vitale (Attract Money Now), Marlon Sanders (Internet Marketing Superstar), Connie Green (Huge Profits With a Tiny List), and several other Internet Marketing experts have created a road map for you. All you have to do is follow it. If you've been downsized, outsourced, or are just looking to increase your income, this is the audio book for you. Författare: Pat O'Bryan

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Price of Prosperity

One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days. First published in 1962, The Price of Prosperity speaks to today's uncertainties as clearly as to those of the past. With chapters like 'The Burden of Government' and 'The Economics of Democracy,' Bernstein probes the future of an economy during rapidly changing times and the appropriate role of government in determining the ultimate outcome. The questions have not changed over time, but Bernstein's answers help us understand these issues from today's perspective. How much government control is too much control? How much can government spend? How can government influence the level of unemployment? As Bernstein shows how to navigate an ever changing economic landscape, his timeless insights throughout this audiobook make The Price of Prosperity as vital and important today as when it appeared in an environment fundamentally different from our own. Författare: Peter L. Bernstein

Uppläsare: Walter Dixon

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Stop the Investing Rip-Off

The financial services industry including banks, brokerages, and insurance companies is unique among all others. Through effective advertising and marketing, it's been able to evade being painted with the brush that other underperforming industries have, and in most cases, their well designed sales pitch has allowed them to effectively prey on the emotional desires of investors. Based on author David Loeper's nearly 25 years of experience with this industry's inner workings, Stop the Investing Rip off reveals the real costs of the investments we make, details the false and misleading information sold to us, and discusses the devastating effects they can have on personal wealth. With this audiobook as your guide, you'll gain invaluable insights into the major segments of the financial services industry, how they spin their offerings, and the questions you need to ask before committing any money to a financial product or service you may be interested in. Författare: David B. Loeper

Uppläsare: Erik Synnestvedt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Super Power

Is India ready for superpower status or too far behind China to ever catch up? In his career as one of India's leading journalists and entrepreneurs, Raghav Bahl has often faced this question, and many others, from bewildered visitors: * Why are Indian regulations so weak and confusing? * Why is your foreign investment policy so restrictive? * How come your hotels are world class, but the roads leading to them are so potholed? * Why don't you lower your voice when you make fun of your politicians? * Why do you control the price of oil and cable TV? Clearly there's a huge difference in how India and its arch rival China work on the ground. China is spectacularly effective in building infrastructure and is now reinvesting almost half its GDP. Meanwhile, India is still a 'promising' economy: more than half its GDP is consumed by its billion plus people, yet India has some unique advantages: Half its population is under twenty five, giving it a strong demographic edge; 350 million Indians understand English, making it the largest English speaking country in the world; and it's the world's largest democracy. In the race to superpower status, who is more likely to win: China's hare or India's tortoise? Bahl argues that the winner might not be determined by who is investing more and growing faster today but by something more intangible: who has superior innovative skills and more entrepreneurial savvy. With insights into the two countries' histories, politics, economies and cultures, this well written, fully documented, comprehensive account of the race to become the next global superpower is a must for anyone looking to understand China, India and the future of the world economy. Författare: Raghav Bahl

Uppläsare: Walter Dixon

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Bed of Procrustes

By the author of the modern classis The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness. Författare: Nassim Taleb

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Day After the Dollar Crashes

WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS of immense proportions. Nationally, internationally, and globally, we are living in a manner that is absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably unsustainable. Our global economic stability is in jeopardy, our planet's ecosystems are under attack, and our health is deteriorating. Huge changes are coming whether or not we want them, whether or not we are ready for them. How can we lead the charge to introduce innovations and solutions to meet the inevitable challenges of new kinds of economic forces? Damon Vickers believes that by anticipating social trends and detecting potentially profitable areas for investing, we might still be able to profit while supporting a sustainable future. In The Day After the Dollar Crashes, Vickers presents a possible time line for the crash of the U.S. dollar and the subsequent collapse of global markets. He outlines the New World Order that may take shape over the next decade and the impact it could have on nations, businesses, and individuals. Perhaps more importantly, he tells how investors can weather the coming economic collapse and position themselves for the coming global transformation. By changing our expectations and taking action to get in alignment with reality, Vickers shows, we can steadily profit in our investments. He suggests both globally sustainable and socially responsible types of investments, including investing in currencies of countries that are backed by real assets like resources and technologies that expand our sustainable energy and food sources. The time for denial and waiting for someone else to fix everything is over. It is up to us, each and every one of us, to wake up and start to make more responsible choices as we enter a New World Order. This audio book will show us how. Författare: Damon Vickers

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Death of Capital

While some semblance of stability has returned to the financial markets, the economies on which these markets must ultimately depend remain structurally weak, and the path toward sustained growth will be difficult. In order to set the economy on a sounder path, we need to understand the sources of instability that caused the failure of the financial system, rethink established ideas, and challenge the intellectual and moral authority of the institutions that control the world's capital. The system is badly broken and we must figure out how to fix it before it is too late. Written by respected portfolio manager and longtime investment professional Michael Lewitt, The Death of Capital looks at how, in recent years, the U.S. economy has increasingly been dominated by short term speculation rather than productive investment, debt rather than equity, and short term thinking rather than long term planning. These disastrous trends, described here as 'financialization,' ignore the fact that capital is a highly unstable social process rather than a fixed, historical object or category. As a result of our failure to understand the true nature of capital, we have developed a financial and regulatory system that does exactly the opposite of what it should be doing—favoring obscurity over transparency and fomenting instability rather than a stable path to growth. In explaining where we have gone wrong, Lewitt pulls few punches in criticizing some of the counterproductive forces that have led to the death of capital—including Wall Street practices such as private equity and derivatives trading—which he views both as economically unproductive and morally bankrupt. This timely audio: • Explores the most important aspects of capital and capitalism through the prism of four of the world's great economic thinkers • Addresses 'financialization' and its consequences, such as a weaker U.S. dollar, the decline of American industries, and the loss of American economic and political hegemony • Examines how the legal system contributed to economic deterioration by privileging short term profitability above other important societal interests such as labor, the environment, and social welfare • Calls for politically controversial reforms such • Asks for stricter regulation of hedge funds and private equity firms, banning naked credit default swaps and off balance sheet financing vehicles, imposition of a Tax on Speculation, and principles based reforms to improve systemic stability • And much more Filled with in depth insights and practical advice, The Death of Capital is not just a play by play of the recent financial crisis, but also an original and passionate analysis of the trends that led to it and how the financial system can be reformed to avoid future crises. Författare: Michael Lewitt

Uppläsare: Erik Synnestvedt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Death of Capital

While some semblance of stability has returned to the financial markets, the economies on which these markets must ultimately depend remain structurally weak, and the path toward sustained growth will be difficult. In order to set the economy on a sounder path, we need to understand the sources of instability that caused the failure of the financial system, rethink established ideas, and challenge the intellectual and moral authority of the institutions that control the world's capital. Written by respected portfolio manager and longtime investment professional Michael Lewitt, The Death of Capital looks at how, in recent years, the U.S. economy has increasingly been dominated by short term speculation rather than productive investment, debt rather than equity, and short term thinking rather than long term planning. These disastrous trends, described here as 'financialization,' ignore the fact that capital is a highly unstable social process rather than a fixed, historical object or category. This timely audiobook: * Explores the most important aspects of capital and capitalism through the prism of four of the world's great economic thinkers * Addresses 'financialization' and its consequences, such as a weaker U.S. dollar, the decline of American industries, and the loss of American economic and political hegemony * Examines how the legal system contributed to economic deterioration by privileging short term profitability above other important societal interests such as labor, the environment, and social welfare * Calls for politically controversial reforms such * Asks for stricter regulation of hedge funds and private equity firms, banning naked credit default swaps and off balance sheet financing vehicles, imposition of a Tax on Speculation, and principles based reforms to improve systemic stability * And much more Författare: Michael E. Lewitt

Uppläsare: Erik Synnestvetd

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Elements of Investing

In his classic book The Elements of Style, Professor William Strunk Jr. whittled down the art of powerful writing to a few basic rules. Forty years later, E.B. White initiated a revision, and thus The Elements of Style became known as Strunk & White. Following this same format, authors Charles Ellis and Burton Malkiel, two of the investment world's greatest thinkers, have combined their talents to produce The Elements of Investing—a short, straight talking audio book about investing and saving that will put you on a path towards a lifetime of financial success. The Elements of Investing lays to rest the popular shibboleths that undergird the hyperactive trading of the average investor. In it, Malkiel and Ellis skillfully focus their message to address the essentials and offer a set of simple, but powerful thoughts on how to avoid Mr. Market and his “loser's game,” and instead enjoy the “winner's game” approach to investing. All the investment rules and principles you need to know are here—with clear advice on how to follow them. In just a few hours of listening time, you will learn all you need to know to be truly successful in investing. Divided into five essential elements of investing this little audio book packs a big message that can help secure your financial future all the way through retirement. Topics touched upon include: • Diversifying broadly over different types of securities with low cost “total market” index funds and different asset types—and why this is important • Focusing on the long term instead of following market fluctuations that are likely to lead to costly investing mistakes • Using employer sponsored plans to supercharge your savings and minimize your taxes • And much, much more. A disciplined approach to investing, complemented by understanding is all you need to enjoy success. This practical guide explains what you really need to know and puts you on the right course for long term success through all kinds of markets. Författare: Burton Malkiel,CharlesEllis

Uppläsare: Erik Synnestvedt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The End of the Free Market

Understanding the rise of state capitalism and its threat to global free markets The End of the Free Market details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market dominant companies and large pools of excess capital, using them for political gain. This trend threatens America's competitive edge and the conduct of free markets everywhere. An expert on the intersection of economics and politics, Ian Bremmer has followed the rise of state owned firms in China, Russia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere. He demonstrates the growing challenge that state capitalism will pose for the entire global economy. Among the questions addressed: Are we on the brink of a new kind of Cold War, one that pits competing economic systems in a battle for dominance? Can free market countries compete with state capitalist powerhouses over relations with countries that have elements of both systems like India, Brazil, and Mexico? Does state capitalism have staying power? This guide to the next big global economic trend includes useful insights for investors, business leaders, policymakers, and anyone who wants to understand important emerging changes in international politics and the global economy. Författare: Ian Bremmer

Uppläsare: Willis Sparks

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Investors Manifesto

As recently as a generation or two ago, the lack of financial ability wasn't a handicap for the average person. But in today's world—where most of us have been forced to manage our own investment and retirement portfolios—it has become essential to understand the finer points of our financial life. While the meltdown of 2008–2009 has compounded the complexity of the investment landscape, timeless investment principles can help you navigate even the toughest investment terrain. That's why bestselling author William Bernstein—a grassroots hero to independent investors—has written The Investor's Manifesto. Approaching the problems of investing and saving from the perspective of someone who has had to figure it out for himself, Bernstein knows firsthand how difficult these endeavors can be—especially for those with little professional experience in this arena. Now, with the current market maelstrom as a backdrop, he skillfully describes what it takes to plan for a lifetime of investing, discussing stocks and bonds as well as the relationship between risk and return. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Investor's Manifesto: • Explores the theoretical basis of investing and designing portfolios, drawn in large part from financial history • Offers insights on dealing with the emotions and attitudes that routinely cripple investors • Discusses how to deal with the investment industry when executing strategies designed for anything from saving for retirement to putting a child through college • Addresses ways in which individual investors can construct diversified portfolios that can blunt potentially damaging market forces • Covers the concept of Pascal's Wager—which will enable you to identify and avoid worst case investing scenarios If there were ever a time to take control of your financial future, it is now. Potentially generous returns are available to the brave, the disciplined, and the liquid. If you follow the advice found here and keep your head while others lose theirs, then you will have a fighting chance of avoiding the financial pitfalls in front of you and profiting over the long term. Författare: William Bernstein

Uppläsare: Scott Peterson

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Little Book of Bull Moves

In the wake of declining stock prices, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and a weakening dollar, the American economy is poised for a prolonged contraction and U.S. stocks will suffer a protracted bear market, so predicted seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff in his 2008 bestseller, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets. Now updated for 2010, in The Little Book of Bull Moves, the CNBC dubbed “Doctor Doom” explains in the same straightforward and accessible style that was the signature of his first book: • The causes of the current financial crisis, including how the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered the market meltdown • How healthcare legislation will likely prove to be the stake through the heart of our already fragile economy • How the dollar's downward trend is likely to continue, especially under the Obama administration's economic policies, which only provide a temporary illusion of recovery • How the real collapse—including a cataclysmic upheaval of the American way of life as we know it—is yet to come Filled with the sort of insightful commentary, inventive metaphors, and prescriptive advice readers have come to expect from Schiff, The Little Book of Bull Moves shows you commonsense ways to successfully implement various bull moves so that you can preserve, and even grow your wealth in an economy experiencing high inflation, collapsed markets, and rising interest rates coupled with declining currencies. For investors who understand that the worst is yet to come, but don't know what to do about it, and for those for whom a new economic and financial anxiety has taken hold, The Little Book of Bull Moves offers timely insights into using a conservative, nontraditional investment strategy to protect your portfolio and even profit during these uncertain economic times and those to come. Författare: Peter Schiff

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing

It's been a tough couple of years for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what they have and make back some of what they've lost. That's why the bestselling author team of Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth has created The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing. When you invest, there are essential things you should do and many things you shouldn't. The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing addresses these important issues and shows you how to utilize the fundamentals of finance to achieve success in today's market. This practical guide contains proven advice on navigating today's treacherous financial landscape and will put you in a better position to make more informed investment decisions. This reliable resource: • Includes street smart advice for individual investors uncertain about their investment and retirement portfolios • Provides a bulletproof investment portfolio that will minimize your financial risk in bad times and improve your returns in good times • Outlines the steps you must take to maximize your income and savings and protect yourself from the financial calamities of modern life Filled with in depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing offers quick, easy to follow, and entertaining financial guidance for anyone looking to get back on the right investment track. Författare: Ben Stein,Phil DeMuth

Uppläsare: Don Hagen

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Little Book of Currency Trading

Once dominated by global banks, hedge funds, and multinational corporations, the foreign exchange market, or forex, is now easily accessible to traders and investors around the world. But in order to make the most of your time in this market, you need to have a firm understanding of how it works. Written by forex expert Kathy Lien, The Little Book of Currency Trading shows you how to effectively trade and invest in today's biggest market. Page by page, she describes the multitude of opportunities possible in the forex market, from short term price swings to long term trends, and details the practical products that can help you achieve success. Along the way, Lien skillfully explains the forces that drive currencies and provides strategies to profit from them; reveals how you can use various currencies to reduce risk and take advantage of global trends; and examines what you can do to make money without the stress of monitoring the market every day. Other issues addressed include: • Getting started in forex and finding the right approach for you • The most commonly made forex mistakes • Making the most of slow and steady investing as well as learning the fast and furious approach to forex • Avoiding popular forex scams • And much more Filled with in depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book of Currency Trading opens the world of currency trading and investing to anyone interested in entering his dynamic arena. Författare: Kathy Lien

Uppläsare: Walter Dixon

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Little Book of Economics

After the global financial panic and recession of 2007–2009, you don't have to be president or a hedge fund manager to know that “It's the economy, stupid.” Yet while the economy dominates the headlines, how it works and who influences it remain a mystery to most people. In The Little Book of Economics, Greg Ip, an award winning journalist renowned for making complex economics easy to understand, walks you through how the economy really works. You'll learn: • How psychology and the Federal Reserve drive business cycles • How a financial crisis can transform a recession into a depression • The surprising effects of fertility rates, lawyers, and ideas on economic growth • Whether the United States faces a lost decade like Japan did in the 1990s • The causes of inflation, how it destabilizes society, and why deflation is even worse • How government debt can sometimes help end a recession but, other times, bring on disaster—and how to tell the difference • The symptoms of financial crises and why they often occur in election years • What goes on inside the Federal Reserve, what it does when interest rates are zero, and why its power to print money has made it the world's financial fireman You can't understand the American economy without recognizing the growing influence of the rest of the world. So The Little Book of Economics digs into globalization, how it made America's mortgage crisis possible, how it's exploited by China to spur growth, and how it makes the United States richer even as it widens the gap between winners and losers. One side effect of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression is that it has ignited a fresh desire among citizens and investors to better understand the economy. The Little Book of Economics is an accessible, engaging, and entertaining guide to all of the wonderful and wicked ways in which the economy functions and what it all means to you. Författare: Greg Ip

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Little Book of Safe Money

With the value of the dollar sinking, bond yields drying up, giant investment banks collapsing, and stock markets crumbling, how can you ensure that your money will stay safe? By becoming better acquainted with the markets, the “professionals” who populate the field of finance, and most importantly, yourself. While this may sound like simple advice, author Jason Zweig—the investing and personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal—knows how difficult this endeavor can be. But as a trusted voice in the financial community, he has helped thousands of investors achieve this goal, and now, with The Little Book of Safe Money, he wants to help you do the same. This is the perfect guide for those trying to make their way through today's tough markets. He covers everything from investing behavior and why our minds come with their own set of biases that often prove harmful to the use of financial advisors, and goes one step further than the rest by questioning an investor's true appetite for risk. Zweig also debunks many of the myths that whirl around Wall Street with chapters like “Hedge Fund Hooey.” This timely audio book: • Outlines strategies for satisfying our ever changing investment appetites while focusing on a long term financial plan • Discusses both the external and internal forces that can hurt our investment performance—and how you can better deal with them • Offers practical guidance, tools, and tips for surviving and thriving in a down market • And much more In a straightforward and accessible style, Zweig peels away layer after layer of buzz words, emotion, and myths to reveal what's really going on in today's financial markets and how you can thrive under even the most adverse conditions. If you're serious about succeeding in today's turbulent markets, then The Little Book of Safe Money is what you should be listening to. Författare: Jason Zweig

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Lost Prosperity Secrets of Napoleon Hill

It isn't everyday that an opportunity comes along to hear newly discovered advice for SUCCESS in tough times book by Napoleon Hill, the legendary author of THINK & GROW RICH, The MAGIC LADDER To SUCCESS and The MASTER KEY TO RICHES. The Lost Prosperity Secrets of Napoleon Hill consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between 1919 and 1923 for Success Magazine, for which he eventually became an editor. Hill's drive to become successful led him from the poverty stricken Appalachian Mountains to meetings with rags to riches tycoons. These articles focus on Hill's philosophy of success. Drawing upon the thoughts and experiences of a multitude of influential people, Hill shows listeners how those successful people achieved their status. Many of these writings have been the basis of several bestselling books. Listeners will discover principles designed to guide them in putting these steps to success into action. It is in these early articles that Hill honed his theories, refined his arguments, and polished his presentation of the success philosophy for the ordinary person. A necessary handbook for our era, The Lost Prosperity Secrets of Napoleon Hill is filled with time tested wisdom that resonates as strongly and as appropriate today as when it was first written. Författare: Napoleon Hill

Uppläsare: Erik Synnestvedt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Price of Everything

Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar. We may be less willing to give blood for $25 than to donate it for free. Americans hire the cheap labor of illegal immigrants to fix the roof or mow the lawn and vote for politicians who promise to spend billions to keep them out of the country. And citizens of the industrialized West pay hundreds of dollars a year in taxes or cash for someone to cart away trash that would be a valuable commodity in poorer parts of the world. The Price of Everything starts with a simple premise: there is a price behind each choice that we make, whether we're deciding to have a baby, drive a car, or buy a book. We often fail to appreciate just how critical prices are as motivating forces shaping our lives. But their power becomes clear when distorted prices steer our decisions the wrong way. Eduardo Porter uncovers the true story behind the prices we pay and reveals what those prices are actually telling us. He takes us on a global economic adventure, from comparing the relative prices of a vote in corrupt São Tomé and in the ostensibly aboveboard United States to assessing the cost of happiness in Bhutan to deducing the dollar value we assign to human life. His unique approach helps explain * Why polygamous societies actually place a higher value on women than monogamous ones * Why someone may find more value in a $14 million license plate than in the standard issue $95 one * Why some government agencies believe one year of life for a senior citizen is four times more valuable than that of a younger person. Porter weaves together the constant and often unconscious cost and value assessments we all make every day. While exploring the fascinating story behind the price of everything from marriage and death to mattresses and horsemeat, Porter draws unexpected connections that bridge a wide range of disciplines and cultures. The result is a cogent and insightful narrative about how the world really works. Författare: Eduardo Porter

Uppläsare: Walter Dixon

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Prosperity Plan

Great thinking + Great action = Extraordinary Results. The rules have changed. The old strategies of hard work, fitting in, and loyalty no longer guarantee a secure and shiny future. In this inspiring book, Laura B. Fortgang reveals that the most powerful currency today is a deep and unwavering awareness of one's inherent worth and potential. The Prosperity Plan offers a simple and clear approach to building financial and emotional security. According to Fortgang, in order to obtain wealth and happiness we need to become receptive to all the world has in store for us. We must build lives outside of the 'norm,' always reaching for our own unique good versus some cookie cutter version of what we thought our lives 'should' or 'could' be. A step by step guide to creating the circumstances by which great luck can find you, this book illustrates how to: *Recognize possibility *Create opportunity *Achieve financial and emotional well being *Discover your true worth *Make more money by being more YOU *Master the art of making things happen The ten steps in The Prosperity Plan will show you how to beat the odds and prosper in ways you never dreamed possible! Författare: Laura Fortgang

Uppläsare: Laura Fortgang

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Secret of Shelter Island:

Most of us devote a substantial percentage of our waking hours to making, spending, and having more. This desire to accumulate is natural. But when a bigger bank balance—or the things it can buy—becomes our animating purpose, disappointment generally follows. In The Secret of Shelter Island, nationally renowned investment analyst and bestselling author Alexander Green explores the complicated relationship we all have with money and reveals the road map to a rich life. The timing could hardly be better. After more than twenty five years of virtually uninterrupted prosperity, the U.S. economy has hit a rough patch. Yet to the extent that downturns like the current one shake up the status quo and force us to reexamine our goals and priorities, they also offer enormous opportunities. The Secret of Shelter Island provides an ideal starting point. Drawing on some of today's best minds and many of history's greatest thinkers, it is both a much needed source of inspiration and an insightful look at the role of both money and values in the pursuit of the good life. Green explores such key questions as: How important is money in your life? What is it giving you? He discusses how to calculate your real net worth—without using a financial statement and he offers powerful insights based on a deceptively simple philosophy of life with a refreshing take on the universal principles that guide us all—or should. The Secret of Shelter Island is full of practical wisdom. More than just a personal philosophy, it is a profound and utterly modern commentary on timeless values, the search for meaning, and what it means to be truly wealthy. Författare: Alexander Green

Uppläsare: Erik Synnestvetd

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Selling of the American Economy

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries of “Buy American” have grown louder and louder. But at a time when an Italian company has bailed out one of our most iconic automakers; a French German consortium is closing in on a multibillion dollar military contract; companies based around the world are stocking our grocery aisles; and the assets of some of our most venerable financial institutions have been stripped down and bought up by banks from Hong Kong and London, what does “Buy American” mean any more? Is the influence that foreign companies are exerting on our economy making us more competitive in the global marketplace, or less? Creating jobs for Americans, or importing their own workforces? A threat to our national security, or are they bringing us technology that makes us safer? When they open factories here, are they siphoning money from our economy, or bolstering it? Are we selling our economy to the highest bidder? Micheline Maynard, New York Times senior business correspondent, argues that foreign investments are actually an overwhelmingly positive force, creating thousands of jobs, pumping billions of dollars into national and local economies, reinvigorating communities, fostering innovation and diversity in the marketplace, and teaching Americans new ways to live and work. In this compelling narrative, Maynard paints a fascinating portrait of the paradigm shift that is transforming the American economy and remaking the American dream. Författare: Micheline Maynard

Uppläsare: Marguerite Gavin

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Triumph of Value Investing

Timely advice from value investing giants such as Warren Buffett, William O'Neil, Charles Brandes, and David Iben After the financial chaos and panic of the last few years, investors are looking to rebuild confidence and learn from the mistakes that led to the crash. In The Triumph of Value Investing, Janet Lowe urges listeners to return to the basic principles of value investing as taught by the legendary Benjamin Graham, which remain just as relevant today. These lessons can help listeners maneuver sanely through any type of economic turmoil and even benefit from further disruptions. Lowe also includes interviews with leading value investors such as Warren Buffett, William O'Neil, and Charles Brandes, and analyzes dozens of U.S. and foreign stocks. She walks investors through the steps necessary to apply the principles that define value investing, with special emphasis on investing in biotech, high technology, and foreign companies. Whether listeners are familiar with value investing or are just discovering it, they will find plenty of fresh information in The Triumph of Value Investing, which covers the latest concepts and players in the market. As Lowe writes, 'It is always healthy to check up on the validity of your own thinking. Considering the market breakdowns of the past decade and the confusion and discouragement many individual investors have suffered, this is an excellent time to restudy Benjamin Graham's concepts of value investing and learn how to apply them to a whole range of new challenges.' Författare: Janet Lowe

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Tyranny of Dead Ideas

“Offers the most plausible way to renovate our political and policy thinking to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.”—Joe Klein, Time America is at a crossroads. The global economic downturn that began in 2008 has laid bare the structural weakness of our economy, putting the country through its most severe test since the Great Depression. Yet our political and business leaders have failed to prepare us because they are in the grip of a set of “dead ideas” about how a modern economy should work. Even the proponents of “change” in the Obama administration remain tentative in pushing the boundaries of the conventional wisdom. But as Matt Miller shows in this provocative and influential analysis, the American economy will turn the corner only if we move beyond these outdated ways of thinking and recognize the ascendance of a new set of “destined ideas” that will reinvigorate our economy, our politics, and our day to day lives. And in a new preface, Miller shows how today's financial crisis has finally stripped these dead ideas of their power, offering hope for a durable recovery. Författare: Matt Miller

Uppläsare: Matt Miller

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide

If you want to continue your modern lifestyle and prepare for the possibility of a potential crisis, then The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide is the audio book for you. Planning for the unthinkable and making smart money moves before and during difficult times requires an in depth understanding of the many aspects of life in which problems can strike, and this reliable resource will show you what it takes to make it should these situations arise. In the face of disaster, it is better to plan than panic. A bulletproof plan will protect you from the crippling effects of a mishap—from shake ups in the stock market to the next oil crisis to fires and floods. With this audio book, author Sean Brodrick of Weiss Research teaches you the simple things you can do that will help you prepare and profit in this changing economic landscape. It is your tool to understanding a myriad of key concepts. Divided into five comprehensive parts, this one of a kind guide: • Discusses how you should position yourself financially in order to survive—and possibly thrive—during a regular economic downturn, a full blown recession, or an economic collapse • Addresses how to protect your health—and that of your family—as well as your home from uncontrollable events • Offers practical advice for storing food and water, buying survival gear, and becoming more self sufficient • Details different transportation options, should traditional means fail, and offers practical advice on evacuating an area should things become unstable And much more The time to plan for any crisis is before it happens. Nobody understands this better than Sean Brodrick, and with The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide, he shows you how it's possible to prepare for an uncertain future and prosper under even the toughest conditions. Författare: Sean Brodrick

Uppläsare: Scott Peterson

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

This Time is Different

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing and recovering their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, 'this time is different' claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong. Covering sixty six countries across five continents, This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises, and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes from medieval currency debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations. The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much or how little we have learned. Using clear, sharp analysis and comprehensive data, Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency, duration, and ferocity. They examine the patterns of currency crashes, high and hyperinflation, and government defaults on international and domestic debts as well as the cycles in housing and equity prices, capital flows, unemployment, and government revenues around these crises. While countries do weather their financial storms, Reinhart and Rogoff prove that short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur. This Time Is Different exposes centuries of financial missteps. Författare: Carmen Reinhart,Kenneth Rogoff

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp

Vägen till din första miljon: alla kan bygga en egen pengamaskin

Vare sig man vill erkänna det eller ej, har pengar en väsentlig betydelse i våra liv. Ju bättre ekonomi, desto tryggare och friare känner vi oss. Valmöjligheterna blir fler och vi kan i större utsträckning välja vad vi själva vill göra; att ha pengar är att själv kunna bestämma över sin egen tid. Det fantastiska är att vem som helst med relativt små medel kan skapa en alldeles egen pengamaskin. Det krävs ingen speciell utbildning, yrkeserfarenhet eller extrem talang allt som behövs är vilja, uthållighet och sunt förnuft. Tobias Schildfats bok är en inspirerande berättelse om drömmar och personlig frihet; om hur du bygger din alldeles egna pengamaskin och förvandlar en privatekonomi till ett framgångsrikt företag. Berättelsen varvas löpande med konkreta exempel men också med uppgifter att utföra allt för att ge lyssnaren möjlighet att koppla innehållet till sin egen ekonomi och livssituation. Författare: Tobias Schildfat

Uppläsare: Anders Wallén

Förlag: Earbooks

World 3.0

The world looks far different today than it did before the global financial crisis struck. Reeling from the most brutal impacts of the recession, governments, economies, and societies everywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increased protectionism. That's understandable, but it's also dangerous, maintains global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat in World 3.0. Left unchecked, heightened protectionism could prevent peoples around the world from achieving the true gains afforded by cross border openness. Ghemawat paints a disturbing picture of what could happen to household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality of life metrics should globalization continue to reverse direction. He then describes how a wide range of players' private businesses, policy makers, citizens, the press' could help open flows of ideas, people, and goods across borders, but in ways that maximize economic benefits for all. World 3.0 reveals how we're not nearly as globalized as we think we are, and how people around the world can secure their collective prosperity through new approaches to cross border integration. Provocative and bold, this new audio book will surprise and move you, no matter where you stand on globalization. Författare: Pankaj Ghemewat

Uppläsare: Sean Pratt

Förlag: Gildan Media Corp