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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

Personal finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences - his two fathers. One father (Robert's real father) was a highly educated man but fiscally poor. The other father was the father of Robert's best friend - that Dad was an eighth-grade drop-out who became a self-made multi-millionaire. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by... (more)

The Cashflow Quadrant

Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

by Robert T. Kiyosaki

The Cashflow Quadrant is the follow-up guide to finding the financial fast track that best works for you. It reveals the strategies necessary for moving beyond just job security to greater financial security by generating wealth from four selective financial quadrants.

One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know To Make Money in the Market, Miniature Edition

One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know To Make Money in the Market, Miniature Edition

by John Rothchild, Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies sold, is now a handy, useful Running Press Miniature Edition™! Readers will learn what stocks to avoid, how to decipher Wall Street jargon, how to design a perfect portfolio, and countless other ways to succeed in business and finance. Packed with insightfrul excerpts from essays in the original One Up on Wall Street , as well... (more)

The Intelligent Investor, Revised Edition

The Intelligent Investor, Revised Edition

by Benjamin Graham

More than one million hardcovers sold Now available for the first time in paperback! The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham's Timeless Wisdom for Today's Market Conditions The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop... (more)

Money Makes the World Go Around

by Barbara Garson

What does it really mean to live in a world united by, and immersed in, the free flow of capital? In Money Makes the World Go Around , Barbara Garson sets out to see for herself, and the result is a hilarious and instructive gallop through international finance in today's post-industrial economy. Depositing two sums of money-one in a small-town bank, the other in an aggressive mutual fund-Garson tracks her... (more)

Rich Dad's Retire Young, Retire Rich

by Robert T. Kiyosaki

The way to achieve the goal of a lifetime.Its the dream that is quickly becoming a realitymaking so much money at an early age that you could decide when to retire, knowing full well that you have enough stashed away to ensure a life of comfort. In this new book, the fifth in the Rich Dad series, financial guru Robert Kiyosaki provides practical insight on how to put together a financial plan which will not only... (more)

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition

by Burton G. Malkiel

The million-copy bestseller, now fully up-to-date and ready for post-dot-com investors. Using the dot-com crash as an object lesson in how not to manage your portfolio, here is the best-selling, gimmick-free, irreverent, vastly informative guide to navigating the turbulence of the market and managing investments with confidence. A Random Walk Down Wall Street is well established as a staple of the... (more)

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein

John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of his traders,... (more)

Personal Finance for Dummies, Fourth Edition

Personal Finance for Dummies, Fourth Edition

by Eric Tyson

Too many personal finance consultants offer financial advice that ignores the big picture and instead focuses on investing. You need much more than that to plan your future. You need a broader understanding of personal finance that includes all areas of your financial life in order to become financially sound. Personal Finance for Dummies, 5 th Edition is full of detailed, action-oriented financial... (more)

Richest Man in Babylon

by George S. Clason, Robert B. Goodman

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING CLASSIC Read by millions, this timeless book holds the key to success-in the secrets of the ancients. Based on the famous "Babylonian principles," it's been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift and financial planning. ACHIEVE PERSONAL WEALTH... This celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of-and a solution to-personal money... (more)

Money Game (Vintage)

by Adam Smith

Let's Get Real About Money!

by Eric Tyson

"The book's gem is a personal financial action plan that allows easy assessment of current assets and retirement goals!This book demystifies the many obstacles--from the logistical to the conceptual--to smart financial planning." --Publishers Weekly "Eric Tyson is the best personal finance writer at work today. In a field cluttered with hucksters, false gurus, and just plain bad advice, this book delivers powerful... (more)

Beating the Street

by John Rothchild, Peter Lynch

Develop a Winning Investment Strategy -- with Expert Advice from "The Nation's #1 Money Manager" Peter Lynch's "invest in what you know" strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies -- and their stocks -- perform the way they... (more)

Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors

Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors

by Charles Gasparino

"Blood on the Street is a riveting account of the Wall Street scam in which ordinary investors lost literally billions of dollars -- in many cases their life savings -- in one of the greatest deceptions ever, by the crack reporter who broke the original story. In one of the most outrageous examples of dirty dealing in the history of Wall Street, hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits were made during... (more)

Analysis of Financial Statements

by Leopold A. Bernstein, John J. Wild

Turn financial statements into powerful allies in your decision making Whether you're an investor, creditor, consultant, regulator, manager-or an employee concerned about your company's well-being and the stability of your job-the ability to successfully interpret and analyze financial statements gives you a leg up in today's rough-and-tumble marketplace. Analysis of Financial Statements, Fifth Edition , by... (more)

Quality of Earnings

by Robert Sobel, Thornton L. O'glove

An indispensable guide to determining how much money a company is really making and for buying and selling stocks without making costly blunders.

Leveraged Buyouts

Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing--in Only 15 Minutes a Week!

Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing--in Only 15 Minutes a Week!

by Phil Town

Before I became “Phil Town, teacher of investing principles to more than 500,000 people a year,” I was a lot like you: someone who viewed individual stock investing as way too hard to do successfully. As a guy who barely made a living as a river guide, I considered the whole process pretty impenetrable, and I was convinced that to do it right you had to make it a full-time job. Me, I was more interested in having... (more)

How to Prosper During the Hard Times Ahead: A Crash Course for the American Family in the Troubled New Millennium

How to Prosper During the Hard Times Ahead: A Crash Course for the American Family in the Troubled New Millennium

by Howard J. Ruff

Not only do you need to protect yourself and your family for the new millennium,you also need to know how to protect your investments.

Key Financial Instruments: Understanding and Innovating In the World of Derivatives

Key Financial Instruments: Understanding and Innovating In the World of Derivatives

by Warren Edwards

This practical manual will help bankers to innovate and sell useful financial products. Written by a leading expert in financial instrument innovation, this book will demystify key financial instruments, their structures, benefits, risks,and rewards. It examines the process of innovating and structuring successful instruments and sheds new light on the "why" of their development. Using worked examples and... (more)

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by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

by Robert T. Kiyosaki

by John Rothchild, Peter Lynch

by Benjamin Graham

by Barbara Garson

by Robert T. Kiyosaki

by Burton G. Malkiel

by Roger Lowenstein

by Eric Tyson

by George S. Clason, Robert B. Goodman

by Adam Smith

by Eric Tyson

by John Rothchild, Peter Lynch

by Charles Gasparino

by Leopold A. Bernstein, John J. Wild

by Robert Sobel, Thornton L. O'glove

by Phil Town

by Howard J. Ruff

by Warren Edwards