"One of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time provides practical insight and keen analysis on how to track, and react to, the ups and downs of the stock market. Marks reveals the hidden logic in carefully pinpointing market trends so that every investor can profi…
Bond appetit! -- Numerous and varied ways to make money in bonds -- Customizing and optimizing your bond portfolio -- Bonds away! Navigating the fixed-income marketplace -- Bonds as replacements for the old paycheck -- The part of tens.
Intro -- The Breakfast Club for 40-Somethings -- Contents -- Prologue -- What's holding you back? -- Desire -- Focus -- Time -- Belief -- Action -- Novel beginnings -- Meet the characters -- Karen and Russ Douglas -- Josephine -- Jasper -- Jayne -- Brad -- Chapter 1 Karen -- Cha…
Shares anecdotal insight into the illogical influences behind poor financial decisions and how to outmaneuver them, covering topics ranging from credit-card debt and household budgeting to holiday spending and real estate sales. "Why is paying for things painful? Why are we com…
"Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues,…
Contemporary financial self-help and the rise of neoliberalism -- It's not about money, it's about freedom -- From rats to riches -- Creating a world of abundance -- American dreams in Argentina -- Conclusion : financial self-help and beyond
Part I, Getting started with social security: What social security is and why you need it -- A breakdown of benefits -- Deciding when to start collecting retirement benefits -- Protecting your number and securing your card -- Part II, Taking the plunge : filing for social securi…
"The seventh edition of Focus on Personal Finance contains new and updated boxed features, exhibits and tables, articles, and end-of-chapter material. The following grid highlights some of the more significant content revisions made to Focus, 6e."
The millionaire next door is alive and well -- Ignoring the myths -- Influences on wealth -- Freedom to consume -- Strengths for building wealth -- Getting to work -- Investing resources -- Conclusion
The portfolios of the poor -- The daily grind -- Dealing with risk -- Building blocks : creating usefully large sums -- The price of money -- Rethinking microfinance : the Grameen II diaries -- Better portfolios.
Explains how the poor find solutions. This book reports on the yearlong 'financial diaries' of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa - records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money.