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From meltdowns to moguls, bailouts to bubbles, business books worth browsing.
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Finance Basics for Tough Times. You'll get a clear and straightforward overview of the most essential elements of finance and what they mean for your business. From "The Skills You Need Today" collection, featuring concise and handy guides to developing the critical skills managers need most in challenging times. 2009 Appears on the following book lists:  How Can I Afford Retirement? |
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Block, Sandra. The Busy Family's Guide to Money A guide to handling income offers clear tips and advice for a family with children, including how to save and invest, get tax breaks, find a deal on a mortgage, teach kids how to handle money, and deal with major one-time expenses. 2008 |
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Bonner, William, 1948- The New Empire of Debt : the Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble In The New Empire of Debt, financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon bring an end to this once great empire. They clearly show how this has happened and discuss what you can do to overcome the financial challenges that will arise as the situation deteriorates. 2009 |
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Brixey, Marcia. The Money Therapist : a Woman's Guide to Creating a Healthy Financial Life Counsels women at any financial level on how to address a wide range of monetary concerns, from getting out of debt and creating a budget to spending wisely and saving money, in an empowering guide that also shares tips on organizing financial records and safeguarding against identity theft. 2008 |
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Cloutier, George Profits Aren't Everything They're the Only Thing : No-nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru Reveals thirteen no-nonsense, tough-love maxims--including forget teamwork; micromanage like crazy; pay raises are over; fear is the best motivator; if your business fails during a recession, it's your fault; and more--that small businesspeople may not want to hear at first, but will thank the author for in the end. 2009 |
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Davis, Gerald F. (Gerald Fredrick), 1961- Managed By the Markets : How Finance Reshaped America Since the early 1980s, Gerald F. Davis shows, finance and financial considerations have increasingly taken center stage, dramatically reshaping American society. Individuals and households find their welfare tied to the stock market and the mortgage market as never before. And the turbulence of recent years starkly underscores the dangers of depending too much on financial markets. Written in the spirit of C. Wright Mills' penetrating The Power Elite and White Collar, this brilliant study provides an invaluable map of the finance-driven American society. 2009 |
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Dunnan, Nancy How to Invest $50-$5 000 : the Small Investor's Step-by-step Plan for Low-risk High-value Investing A guide to investments and saving plans that will be most profitable for the small investor includes the latest information on on-line trading, 401(k) investments, stock portfolios, and saving for college. 2007 |
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Epping, Randy Charles The 21st Century Economy : a Beginner's Guide : with 101 Easy-to-learn Tools for Surviving and Thriving in the New Global Marketplace With recent economic turmoil monopolizing the headlines, it has become more important than ever to understand fundamental economic terms and concepts. 2009 |
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Fries, Amy R. Daydreams at Work : Wake Up Your Creative Powers Find solutions, energy, and the next big idea - all through the creative power of daydreaming. 2009 |
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Goffee, Robert. Clever : Leading Your Smartest Most Creative People Leading clever people can be enormously challenging, yet doing so effectively is the key to your organization's sustained success. Lively and engaging, this book provides the ideas, practices, and examples you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish. 2009 |
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Kansas, Dave. The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know it : What You Need to Know About the Greatest Financial Crisis of Our Time-- and How to Survive it Describes the factors that contributed to the current financial crisis, presents an analysis of the government's role in banking, describes which investments are protected, and looks at investment strategies. 2009 |
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Kobliner, Beth, 1965- Get a Financial Life : Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties Presents a comprehensive guide to finance for young people in their twenties and thirties, providing easy-to-understand explanations of such financial basics as mutual funds, credit cards, medical insurance, debt, and housing. 2009 |
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Leeb, Stephen Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy Expanding on his forecast for an economic collapse, an expert on Wall Street describes the effects of the financial crisis and soaring oil prices on personal wealth and offers tips on how smart investors can survive--and even thrive--in difficult economic times. 2009 |
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Leopold, Les. The Looting of America : How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs Pensions and Prosperity and What We Can Do About it In The Looting of America, Leopold debunks the prevailing media myths that blame low-income home buyers who got in over their heads, people who ran up too much credit-card debt, and government interference with free markets. Instead, readers will discover how Wall Street undermined itself and the rest of the economy by playing and losing at a highly lucrative and dangerous game of fantasy finance. 2009 |
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Loeper, David B. Stop the Investing Rip-off : How to Avoid Being a Victim and Make More Money An investor's guide to avoiding hidden charges and making more on investments, this book, filled with in-depth insights, serves as an advocate for the consumer and exposes what insiders know about sales pitches and addresses questions every investor should ask during the final pitch. 2009 Appears on the following book lists: How Can I Afford Retirement? |
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O'Neil, William J. How to Make Money in Stocks : a Winning System in Good Times or Bad Based on a major study of market winners from 1880 to 2009, this expanded edition tells you how to select profitable stocks, avoid common investment errors, recognize undervalued stocks, know when to sell, reduce risk, and retire early. 2009 Appears on the following book lists: How Can I Afford Retirement? How Can I Afford Retirement? |
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Parness, Michael. Rule Your Freakin' Retirement : How to Retire Rich By Actively Managing Your Assets Shares guidelines for adopting an active, aggressive trading strategy to ensure a fully funded retirement, in a reference that challenges conventional methods while providing plain-language instructions on funds, insurance, and other subjects. 2009 Appears on the following book lists: How Can I Afford Retirement? How Can I Afford Retirement? |
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Pond, Jonathan D. Safe Money in Tough Times : Everything You Need to Know to Survive the Financial Crisis A regular on CNN and NBC Mr. Pond provides advice on ways to minimize the effects of the financial crisis on one's finances, with information on such topics as budgeting, debts, investments, property devaluation, unemployment, and loss of credit. 2009 Appears on the following book lists: How Can I Afford Retirement? How Can I Afford Retirement? |
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Ponzio, Joe F Wall Street : Joe Ponzio's No-nonsense Approach to Value Investing for the Rest of Us The founder of fwallstreet.com brings his brand of financial straight-talk to readers in this book that teaches how to become sharp investors who use economic downturns to their advantage, in a guide for anyone who is fed up with Wall Street, but still wants to invest his or her money sensibly. 2009 Appears on the following book lists: How Can I Afford Retirement? |
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Posner, Richard A. A Failure of Capitalism : the Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression Richard Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of this mother of all financial disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it. No previous acquaintance on the part of the reader with macroeconomics or the theory of finance is presupposed. This is a book for intelligent generalists that will interest specialists as well. 2009 |
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