In the late 1970s, Mayor Ed Koch transformed himself from an unknown political underdog with little money and even fewer family connections into one of America's most illustrious mayors.
LAUGH & LEARN This bestselling book is a collection of amusing anecdotes and useful advice on a wide range of subjects: money, relationships, parenting, business, work, cars, food & drink, life & death, education, health, technology, media, aging, time, animals, baseball, sailing, sex, writing & publishing and law.
CBS MoneyWatch columnist Larry Swedroe's bedrock principles for investing successInvestment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them helps anyone from the novice investor to the professional money manager become a more informed investor and ignore the kind of pervasive conventional wisdom that so often leads to financial loss.
How to Make Money in Stocks Getting StartedThrough both bull and bear markets, Investor s Business Daily s CAN SLIM Investment System has consistently been the #1 growth strategy, according to the American Association of Individual Investors.
Generate greater profits while protecting your investments in the world's largest marketMuch has changed since leading forex expert and educator James Dicks introduced retail investors to trading in the foreign exchange currency market.
Transform Your Space into a Profitable VentureIf youve ever dreamed of turning your extra space into a steady stream of income, now is the time to act!
A Financial Survival Guide for an Economy in Free FallBestselling personal-finance author Nancy Dunnan offers back-to-basics advice to ease the financial squeeze of our troubled economy.
Why Main Street blames financial speculation for economic crashesDisdain for short selling is as American as apple pie, dating back to our nation s founding.
Insider guidance to the modern world of investment banking todayIn Investment Banking Explained, Wharton professor and globalfinancier Michel Fleuriet provides a complete overview ofinvestment banking in its modern form; defines key terms; identifiesstructures, strategies, and operational aspects; and analyzesthe strategy in each of the main functional areas of aninvestment bank.
Learn how to detect any corporate sleight of hand-and gain the upper hand with smart investingInvesting expert John Del Vecchio and Motley Fool Tom Jacobs offer a compelling arguement that the secret to stock-market success today isn t finding the next Google or eBay, but avoiding the next AIG or Enron.
Top ETF investors reveal how to best leverage today's hottest investment vehicle for both long- and short-term profitsAniket Ullal reveals the secrets of profiting from Exchange-Traded Funds.
One of the best-known futures traders explains how to trade for profit in today's global futures marketplaceLook into the bookcase of any successful futures trader, and odds are you'll find a worn, well-used copy of Mark Powers's Starting Out In Futures Trading.
The latest critical data for making superior investing decisions--from the world's most respected financial indexThe Standard & Poor's 500 Index is the most watched index in America--if not the world.
A leading educator makes Forex investing as easy as driving a carIn The Forex Trading Manual, Javier Paz provides easy-to-understand examples of long- and short-term strategies, best practices for navigating the economic calendar, and applications for trading a variety of currencies.
One of the key determinants of success for today's high-technology companies is product strategy-and this guide continues to be the only book on product strategy written specifically for the 21st century high-tech industry.
Completely revised and updated--the must-haveresource for saving thousands of dollars at tax timeA former IRS attorney, Sandy Botkin has saved hundreds of thousands of taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--around the year 2030, well within the retirement years of the baby boom generation.
The high-yield debt market (junk bonds) is a major sector of the financial industry, with more than $600 billion traded annually, and interest in the market is on the riseFeatures the insights of Marty Fridson (Fridson Vision), Sam DeRosa (CSFB High-Yield), Peter Tufano (Harvard University), and Darrell Duffie (Stanford University), among othersIncludes models for analyzing probabilities of default and recovery
DISCOVER the SECRETS to ATTRACTING and RETAINING AFFLUENT COUPLESFact: A startling 70 percent of widows fire the couple's financial advisor within one year of the death of their spouse--the main reason being that the advisor had failed to develop a trusting relationship with both partners.
Time-tested strategies for a powerful portfolio from one of today's top retirement experts-Daniel WildermuthHow to Keep and Grow Your Retirement Assets explains common causes of portfolio mismanagement, describes the high-cost results from it, and offers ways to dramatically improve portfolio creation and management.
Addresses newly exposed weaknesses of financial risk models in the context of market stress scenariosThis will be the definitive book for readers looking to improve their approach to modeling financial risk
