Financial Investing

Let’s face it: Adulting is hard, especially when it comes to money management. In Money Honey, former financial advisor Rachel Richards achieves the impossible by bringing humor and sass to the dreaded subject of personal finance. An avid investor and business owner, Rachel talks straight about how to attain financial freedom.

A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Michael Lewis paints the mood and market factors leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts to show what people thought was happening at the time, and then, with the luxury of hindsight, analyzes what actually happened and what we should have learned from experience.

Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the most prominent figures in the finance world—Jack Bogle, Charley Ellis, Gene Fama, Marty Leibowitz, Harry Markowitz, Bob Merton, Myron Scholes, Bill Sharpe, Bob Shiller, and Jeremy Siegel. We learn about the personal and intellectual journeys of these luminaries and their most innovative contributions. In the process, we come to understand how the science of modern investing came to be.

Your financial future is too important to leave to chance. Find purpose for your money and freedom for yourself and family. Experiencing The American Dream: How to Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money to Create an Extraordinary Life is a compelling book with clear, potentially life-altering truths about economics and investing. As you listen, you'll engage in a profound exploration of your family's financial future.

Created for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increasing risk-management transparency, and implementing an organization-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach.

A robust investment strategy forms the basis of any wealth building journey—if your money isn't working hard on your behalf, it's slowly being devalued by inflation. It has never been easier—or more important—for everyday investors to get started investing in the stock market. Bestselling author, advisor, and financial industry veteran Ted D. Snow CFP®, MBA brings over 30 years of experience to this Investing QuickStart Guide.

You see, living without money worries isn’t a fantasy...but if you know the feeling of staring at tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of debt - it sure feels like it. The fact is, the average American now has $38,000 worth of debt. What’s even more shocking is, that figure excludes mortgages! So if breaking from the shackles of debt seems overwhelming, don’t worry - it needn’t be. The good news is, the path to financial freedom is 20 percent knowledge, 80 percent behavior. In fact, you only need to follow a few key principles to turn your financial life around.

Imagine a world where your investments are managed by a super-intelligent computer, analyzing mountains of data and making lightning-fast decisions to maximize your returns. That's the promise of AI in finance, and it's already making waves in the investment world.

Unlock the secrets to financial independence–start building your wealth now, even if you're a teen with zero experience! Are you a teen with big dreams but unsure about managing money? Ever looked at your empty wallet and thought, "There’s got to be a better way"? If you’re tired of waiting for that "someday" when you magically understand finances, this book is for you!

Over the past century, if the wealthiest families had spent a reasonable fraction of their wealth, paid taxes, invested in the stock market, and passed their wealth down to the next generation, there would be tens of thousands of billionaire heirs to generations-old fortunes today. The puzzle of The Missing Billionaires is why you cannot find one such billionaire on any current rich list. There are a number of explanations, but this book is focused on one mistake which is of profound importance to all investors: poor risk decisions, both in investing and spending.

Since 2014, international monetary agencies have been issuing warnings to a small group of finance ministers, banks, and private equity funds: The US government's cowardly choices not to prosecute J.P. Morgan and its ilk and to bloat the economy with a $4 trillion injection of easy credit are driving us headlong toward a cliff. As Rickards shows in this frightening, meticulously researched book, governments around the world have no compunction about conspiring against their citizens.

Maybe you’ve been dreaming of landing a higher-paying career, or starting a profitable online business? Perhaps you want to finally learn what you were never taught about real estate or the stock market? Or maybe you want to take a chance on Bitcoin and Crypto—without losing everything. Regardless of your current age or net worth or any financial errors you’ve made in the past, I’ll reveal the exact strategies we've used to grow our wealth from $0 to over $2M and counting.

The story the Vanguard Group as told by its founder, legendary investor John C. Bogle, Stay the Course traces the history of Vanguard - the largest mutual fund organization on Earth. An engaging blend of company history, investment perspective, and personal memoir, this book provides a fascinating look into the mind of an extraordinary man and the company he created.

This is an updated version of the book that accurately predicted the global stock market crash of 2008, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and Ben Bernanke's unprecedented overreaction via quantitative easing programs. First published in 2008, the book quickly became a best seller not just for its timely insight into precious metals investment but for its amazingly accurate prediction of a "roller-coaster crash"—the manipulated whipsaw between inflation, deflation, and back again.

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected - that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn't sure how to do it. Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him.

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Power up your investment portfolio and earn more than you ever thought possible. Have you been investing for a while but wish it could give you better returns? Are you looking to expand your portfolio beyond stocks and bonds? Do you want to invest in a stable, yet high-return market? If so, commercial real estate may make a good addition to your portfolio.

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew W. Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework.

Unlock your financial potential with "Financial Literacy for Young Adults: Mastering Money Management, Budgeting, and Investing for a Secure Future." This must-have guide is packed with essential knowledge for mastering personal finance. Whether you're exploring financial literacy for women or men, seeking financial literacy for dummies, or just looking for the best financial literacy books in general, this resource has you covered.

Do you know that the average real estate investor makes about $124,000 a month? And most of these investors started without much capital? Are you ready to join the club of the millionaires through real estate investment, but you don't want to be another name on the broke real estate investors list? Have no fear! This is your handy real estate guide to reaping the benefits of every penny you invest in real estate, with less work, less risk, and fewer complications. Take a ride into the millionaire fast lane and discover how to find and buy inexpensive real estate.