THE TWO TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN: EASY MONEY, HIGH ROLLERS, AND THE GREAT CREDIT CRASH (PAPERBACK)
Read Published Article Buy the Book on Amazon.com Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, isn’t one for sugarcoating. His analysis is dour and grim, but certainly not dull. And when read against a backdrop of an ever-weaker economy, increasingly anxious economists and a stream of gloomy predictions, it can be downright scary. Morris, [...]
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Book Review: Maxed Out
Read Published Article Buy the Book on Amazon.com When Wesley Wannemacher, an Ohio resident, testified at a congressional hearing earlier this month, his story of debt and hopelessness was a familiar one. Wannemacher had maxed out his $3,000 Chase bank card to pay for his wedding and fell behind in his payments. Over six years, [...]
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GET RICH, STAY RICH, PASS IT ON: THE WEALTH-ACCUMULATION SECRETS OF AMERICA’S RICHEST FAMILIES
Read Published Article Buy the Book on Amazon.com Sorry, folks, this is not a get-rich-quick book. Still, you may be richer than you think, write authors Catherine McBreen and George Walper Jr. in Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On. More than 7 million American households today claim total assets of a million dollars or [...]
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REVIEW: ‘VIRAL LOOP’ SHOWS HOW VIRAL MARKETING BOOSTS START-UPS
Adam Penenberg’s latest book, Viral Loop, is catching. Penenberg, a professor of journalism at New York University, dizzily taps into the energy of the entrepreneurs who over the last decade and a half created some very successful Web-based businesses –Facebook, PayPal, Hotmail, to name a few. Their mode of operation: viral marketing, a method of product promotion [...]
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REVIEW: BOOKS SHED LIGHT ON BERNARD MADOFF’S SHADY ACTIVITIES
Read Published article The first books on swindler Bernie Madoff’s monstrous $65 billion Ponzi scheme have landed. Financial journalist Erin Arvedlund’s Too Good to Be True and biographer Jerry Oppenheimer’s Madoff With the Money are among the best.
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REVIEW: ‘FREE’ ADVICE ON HOW TO PROFIT BY GIVING THINGS AWAY
Read Published Article You can shell out nearly 30 bucks for Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail, or you can download the audiobook for free from publisher Hyperion’s website or at LongTail.com. It’s available on Scribd, Google Books, Shortcovers and iTunes. All free, for varying lengths [...]
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REVIEW: ‘FOOL’S GOLD’ BLAZES TRAIL OF UNDERSTANDING ON CREDIT CRISISREVIEW: ‘FOOL’S GOLD’ BLAZES TRAIL OF UNDERSTANDING ON CREDIT CRISISREVIEW: ‘FOOL’S GOLD’ BLAZES TRAIL OF UNDERSTANDING ON CREDIT CRISIS
Read Published Article Pointing fingers of blame can be unseemly and unproductive. Following the sheer magnitude of the financial crisis ignited by J.P. Morgan’s creation of a new kind of investment product — credit derivatives — in the early 1990s, Financial Timesjournalist Gillian Tett’s narrative Fool’s Gold is a welcome and engaging read.
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REVIEW: ‘IN THE BLACK’: A FINANCIAL HOW-TO WITH AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MIND
Read Published Article To be able to fund your dreams is firmly within your control. That’s the empowering message of AaronW. Smith, a financial planner and author of In The Black: Live Faithfully, Prosper Financially. It’s a matter of identifying your personal values, setting goals, discipline and ramping up your financial literacy. [...]
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REVIEW: INVESTMENT PRIMER CHARTS PATH FOR BEGINNERS
By Kerry Hannon Read Published Article Sometimes the very best books are the simplest. And that’s the beauty of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in your Twenties and Thirties. It offers the fundamental ABCs of how to manage your money. Originally penned more than a decade ago by Beth Kobliner, a former staff writer for Money magazine and [...]
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REVIEW: ‘THE DIFFERENCE:’ TO BECOME WEALTHY, SAVE, WORK HARD
Read Published Article Like the ubiquitous self-help volume The Secret, penned by Rhonda Byrne, author Jean Chatzky’s latest motivational book, The Difference, seeks to unlock a mystery. Chatzky wants to show you how to open a door to a hidden path to prosperity. The implied promise: By applying the knowledge herein, you can change your life. Her [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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