Financial English

In his thirty-year career, bankruptcy trustee Doug Hoyes has watched countless intelligent, well-meaning people let their emotions get the better of them as they follow conventional financial wisdom and get into serious money trouble. Straight Talk on Your Money cuts through the biggest myths about money and the hype of the financial industry to give you a fresh perspective, the facts you need to know and practical advice to help you prevent financial problems before they happen.

Is it possible to raise financially responsible kids of any age in a society filled with consumerism and entitlement? New York Times best-selling authors Steve and Annette Economides raised their five kids while spending 77 percent less than the USDA predicted. And the money they did spend was also used to train their children to become financially independent.

The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful business from scratch or maximizing an existing business' performance. Loaded with practical, powerful advice you can easily use, this one-stop guide helps you realize all the benefits that come with a thriving business.

Illicit Financial Flows & Worldwide Money Laundering Practices will help guide and protect your business from illegal activities by teaching you how to intervene before they can happen. You have probably read online or seen news reports about white and blue-collar crimes, corporate crimes, or anti-money laundering practices. and wish to learn more about what they mean and how to protect your business from similar illegal activities.

Have you ever dreamed about becoming financially independent, and being able to retire early? Can it really be that easy? It really can be that easy. Inside All in One for Finance Independence Retire Early (F.I.R.E) for Beginners, I will take you through everything that you need to know, and guide you on the path towards the ultimate goal of financial independence.

In The 21-Day Financial Fast, award-winning writer and The Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary proposes a field-tested financial challenge. For 21 days, participants will put away their credit cards and buy only the barest essentials. With Michelle's guidance during this three-week financial fast, you will discover how to break bad spending habits, plot a course to become debt-free with the Debt Dash Plan, avoid the temptation of overspending for college, learn how to prepare elderly relatives and yourself for future long-term care expenses, and more....

Greedy Bastards tells the story of Sheryl and her new team’s uphill battle to turn around San Antonio city government. She takes you behind closed doors to share the hard changes she made and the strategies she used to create mutually beneficial solutions to the city’s biggest problems. Many of the issues Sheryl found in San Antonio are present in cities across the US. Packed with wins and losses, lessons learned, and pitfalls encountered, Greedy Bastards is a guidebook for any city official tasked with turning around a struggling city.

Italia Tornabene's revolutionary work, "Easy Investing: A Beginner's Guide to Financial Growth," redefines the landscape of financial literature, providing listeners with a roadmap to transform financial uncertainty into empowerment. Emerging from a background of limited resources and overcoming adversity, Italia distills her wealth of knowledge into actionable strategies. This all-encompassing guide dives into various investment avenues, unraveling the potential of gold, the digital real estate hidden in domain names, and other financial insights.

Do you have dreams of becoming an entrepreneur? Are you tired of working for the big man and want to become your own boss? Are you afraid to invest in a business and then fail? If you relate to any of these questions, then this book can help guide you and make you feel at ease about everything you will need to know and change to help you become a successful entrepreneur.

Are you tired of the daily grind and dreaming of financial freedom? Do you want to build a successful business without sacrificing your personal life? Look no further—“The Solo Entrepreneur’s Guide to a Million-Dollar Business” is your ultimate companion on the journey to success and fulfillment.

The Financial Times Guide to Strategy is your unbeatable reference on strategy. It offers an incisive overview of both corporate level and business unit level strategy, an A to Z of the world's leading strategic thinkers, and introduces the key strategic tools and techniques you need to develop your own strategy. Based on long experience and on conversations with leading strategists around the world, Richard Koch helps you discover each critical step in creating, delivering, and understanding successful strategy.

The most important step in making a difference is having the willingness to learn. There is tremendous power in having information; it gives you an upper hand in getting to places that you aspire to be. With a determined spirit and mind, there is nothing that you cannot conquer. In this book, I have tried to give information on different topics that relate to day trading.

Have you ever heard the saying "money can't buy happiness"? Well, it's bullshit. Why do we spend 40+ hours per week working if the goal of monetary gain doesn't make you happy? Let's be honest and call it what it is: Money is simply a tool to provide you with opportunity. These favorable circumstances open doors and provide you the ability to focus on your passions. You have the ability to attain a six- or seven-figure net worth, you just need a proven pathway to get there. Imagine how much more free your life would be.

In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society’s faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping.

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no. Not only is free-market capitalism good for the economy, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation’s longest-serving CEO of one of the top 25 financial institutions, John Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis.

Every industry has its own jargon, and real estate is no different. From adjustable rate mortgages to title insurance to amortization, it can all seem like a confusing word salad for those new to the business. But don’t worry - this book compiles a list of over 140 most common terms you’re likely to encounter. Every real estate term is explained in detail, with clear and concise article style description and practical examples.

You have the right to be financially free and live securely—no matter your income or age. It only feels impossible because most of us aren’t taught to manage money. Bruce Scott, an international personal finance specialist, was born into poverty in Jamaica and dug his way out. He’s now built a step-by-step road map for you to understand how to be more financially secure too.

In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros places the current crisis in the context of his decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity.

Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.

This audiobook begins with the basics and progresses from there. It will walk you through the primary documents that are included in a financial report and explain each one in turn. Not only will it explain what each report is, but it will also discuss how to assess the information and what it means. Then, it will show you basic examples of how to create each one without overcomplicating the process.

A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin. Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own.