Smart Finance

Ask any financially successful person how they achieved their goals, and chances are they'll tell you it all started with a budget. And that's exactly where you should start. Budgeting For Dummies shows you how to create a plan that fits your lifestyle, manages everyday needs, and builds your savings. Author Athena Valentine, founder of the Money Smart Latina blog, offers step-by-step details for creating and following a budget without feeling like you're depriving yourself of all the things that make life worth living.

Weaving anecdotes from their own lives with practical how-to advice, the Smart Cookies offer strategies that cut across the financial spectrum, whether you're deeply in debt or just want to manage your money better. Tackling the unique financial challenges facing women today, they offer easy-to-follow advice on everything from creating a spending plan to boosting your income to starting your own money club.

It is no secret that cryptocurrency is the talk of the town at present, due to its skyrocketing prices and high return on investment. In 2021, the price of Bitcoin raised as high as $60,000, making it gather both media and people's attention. Cryptocurrencies are complex financial instruments that are difficult to understand and follow. If you are a complete novice looking forward to investing in the market, learning about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, as well as the blockchain design that supports them can seem like a daunting task.

Retirement is meant to be enjoyed, but without the right strategies, you could miss out on the money to do that! Are you ready for retirement? You might think you’ve done enough… You’ve been feeding your 401(k) and topping up your savings… But do you really know if what you have is sufficient? Do you know where the gaps in your planning are? Even if you’ve planned early, there’s likely something you’ve missed.

Whenever I tell people about my job as a financial advisor, the conversation inevitably turns to how hopeless they feel when it comes to dealing with money. More than once they've begged, "Just tell me what to do." It's no surprise that even my most successful friends feel confused or paralyzed. Even if they have a shelfful of personal finance books, they don't have time to make sense of all the information available.

We’ve all made financial mistakes—splurging on wants, chasing bad investments, or letting emotions steer our decisions. Financial mastery is more than just budgeting and saving; it’s about uncovering and overcoming the biases and behaviors holding you back. Do you splurge on treats, only to stress about bills later? Jump on a hot stock tip and regret it when it flops? These mistakes happen to everyone, but they don’t have to define your financial future.

We may not realize it, but children are hyperaware of money. They have scores of questions about its nuances that parents often don't answer, or know how to answer well. But for Ron Lieber, a personal finance columnist and father, good parenting means talking about money with our kids much more often. When parents avoid these conversations, they lose a tremendous opportunity—not just to model important financial behaviors, but also to imprint lessons about what their family cares about most.

Everything tells us that what will make us happy can be bought, whether it’s the latest gadgets, renovated kitchens, or luxury goods. But research has shown that having more money in the bank and more stuff around the house doesn’t necessarily correlate with being a happier person. With Happy Go Money, financial expert Melissa Leong cuts through the noise to show you how to get the most delight for your dollar.

Blockchain is the most important and transformational technology of our lifetimes. It’s disrupting everything from the finance industry to the art world. Now, you can get two of Jordan Daniels’s most popular books about blockchain in this low-cost bundle. Decentralized finance and crypto assets each walk you through how blockchain technology works and through different aspects of how this technology is changing the world. Most importantly, each audiobook also shows you how you can leverage the power of blockchain in your financial life.

The future will be increasingly distributed. As the publicity surrounding Bitcoin and blockchain has shown, distributed technology and business models are gaining popularity. Yet the disruptive potential of this technology is often obscured by hype and misconception. This detailed guide distills the complex, fast-moving ideas behind blockchain into an easily digestible reference manual. This book is for anyone evaluating whether to invest time in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Go beyond buzzwords and see what the technology really has to offer.

Ethereum represents the gateway to a worldwide decentralized computing paradigm. This platform enables you to run decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts that have no central points of failure or control, integrate with a payment network, and operate on an open blockchain. With this practical guide, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood provide everything you need to know about building smart contracts and DApps on Ethereum and other virtual-machine blockchains.

Understanding Ethereum now could equip you with the knowledge ahead of a major technological revolution in these early stages of development. After listening to this audiobook, you will understand how to easily set up an Ether wallet and then buy and trade Ether. This audiobook always contains information about mining Ether including cloud mining and more advanced Ethereum topics.

With Retirement Planning Made Easy, you have a blueprint to navigate your unique financial landscape, tearing down the barriers of complex financial jargon.

Today's turmoil in the financial markets illustrates how important it is to be in control of your money. This book addresses the core fundamentals of financial literacy, how to make your money go further, how to get the best return on your investment, how banks work and why city traders earn such enormous bonuses. It plots paths out of debt and builds financial confidence so readers feel in charge of their finances.

Retire Early with Real Estate provides practical, proven methods to quickly and safely build wealth, using the time-tested vehicle of real estate rentals. Packed with specific strategies, tips, and techniques you may have never learned before, this book will help you forge a new path toward your retirement.

Smart Is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials is an interactive, step-by-step guide to all things money. From credit, student debt, savings, investing, taxes, and mortgages, CNN's chief business correspondent Christine Romans shows this newest generation of earners how to build wealth. You'll learn the old-fashioned approach that leads to a healthier financial lifestyle, and open the door on a straightforward conversation about earning, saving, spending, growing, and protecting your money.

Imagine you're hanging out with friends on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Everyone's showing off their latest purchases — the newest iPhone or that exclusive Taylor Swift concert ticket. But while your friends flash their cards or Apple Pay, your heart sinks. With every tap, cha-ching, or swipe, you're confronted with a grim reality — financial FOMO.

In this book, Jeff Reed explains the fundamentals of smart contracts and how they work. The practical uses of smart contracts are enumerated in this book and you will also learn how you can make your own smart contracts in the Ethereum system. You will also get tips on how you can make your smart contacts easy to understand and user-friendly. This book also covers some of the myths surrounding smart contracts and the reasons why they exist.

Blockchain technology and the invention of smart contracts running on it have given rise to decentralized finance. At the time of its birth, DeFi was seen as a response to the 2008 crisis and a hope to democratize finance. By eliminating the role of intermediaries and fluidifying property through tokenization, finance would become accessible to all.

Crypto Creations: How Smart Contracts, NFTs, and DeFi Are Shaping the Future offers a clear, engaging look at blockchain’s most transformative applications and the powerful ways they’re redefining finance, ownership, and creativity. Curious about the latest innovations in blockchain? Crypto Creations reveals how Smart Contracts, NFTs, and DeFi are creating new opportunities across industries. With a focus on practical applications and real-world impact, this guide demystifies complex concepts and shows you exactly why these technologies are so significant. In this book, you’ll discover: