Smart Finance

Hey you...you saw the title. You get the deal. You’re smart. You’ve made a few dollars. You’ve done what the financial books and websites tell you to do. So why isn’t it working? Maybe emotions and expectations are getting in the way of good sense - or you’re paying attention to the wrong people. If you’ve started counting your lattes, for god’s sake, just stop. Listen to this book instead. After decades of working as a Wall Street trader, investment adviser, and money expert for CBS News, Jill Schlesinger reveals 13 costly mistakes you may be making right now with your money.

In The Smart Money Method, the stock-picking techniques used by top industry professionals are laid bare for investors. This is the inside track on how top hedge funds pick stocks and build portfolios to make outsize returns. Stephen Clapham is a retired hedge fund partner who now trains stock analysts at some of the world’s largest and most successful institutional investors. He explains step-by-step his research process for picking stocks and testing their market-beating potential.

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.

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.

Kids may not appreciate the value of a dollar, but it’s hard to blame them. After all, what have they learned about money? Managing finances is rarely covered in schools, and as a parent, you probably don’t know where to start. How do you provide a strong foundation of financial knowledge for your kids with these gaps? What should they learn each year? How do you teach a skill set you never received yourself?

How not to be living in your parents’ basement by the time you’re 30. Ever thought about what life would be like if you could finally live on your own and not have others tell you what to do? Want to know how you can avoid burying yourself in debt as most people do in their 20s? What if you could start building your wealth today - even if you’re barely 18, with no money and no experience? If you’re looking for ways to make money fast and become a millionaire through eCommerce…this ain’t it, chief.

Most credit books promise quick fixes and easy solutions to bad credit, but the truth is there is no quick fix when it comes to credit. Your best strategy as a smart consumer is to understand your credit inside and out. Credit expert John Ulzheimer can give you all the tools you need to master the world of credit, before or after you get into trouble, and take the power back into your own hands.

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.

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.

Against a drumbeat of hopelessness about too much student debt and too few jobs requiring a college degree, Smart Is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials is a realistic and optimistic road map for millennials to save more, navigate their careers, invest in the stock market, and pay their student loans all at the same time.

You can start learning the proven methods we have used for the past two years to earn over $10,000 a month. That's over $100,000 a year. The infamous six figures everyone chases!

Getting into college is just as hard as figuring out how to pay for it. In this original audiobook, prospective students and their parents will learn how to think like informed consumers as you make this very important - and costly - decision. National expert, Reyna Gobel, MBA, provides you with money-saving processes to determine which colleges are right for you, which ones offer the best financial-aid package, and how to plan for this expense.

Are you ready to maximize your earning potential by investing in the essentials and implementing expert advice? Are you prepared to completely transform your home to attract potential buyers? In The Smart First-Time Home Seller's Guide, you will discover how to fetch the highest price tag possible for your home in any given setting. To do this, all you need is a willingness to accept help and to apply the steps when competing against today's market.

Green Giants examines nine companies that are merging social responsibility with wild profitability - and reveals the six factors responsible for their success, including: iconoclastic leadership fueled by deep conviction and a rebellious streak; disruptive innovation that uses sustain ability to spur the development of radically better products and services; a higher purpose that ignites the company - when the mission leads, profits follow.

In The Triumph of Value Investing, Janet Lowe urges listeners to return to the basic principles of value investing, as taught by the legendary Benjamin Graham, which remain as relevant as ever today. These lessons can help listeners maneuver sanely through any type of economic turmoil and even benefit from further disruptions.

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.

Drawing on examples from over 100 foundations and non-profits, Money Well Spent gives listeners the framework they need to design a smart strategy. This is a book for everyone who wants to get the most from a philanthropic dollar: donors, foundations, and non-profits.

You've heard of amazing deals, online discounts, outlet shopping-but has anyone showed you how to shop for free? Meet Kathy Spencer-hot, hip mom of four who can whittle a $267.22 grocery bill down to one penny. One penny.

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.

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.