Best of
Money

2017

Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship


M.J. DeMarco - 2017
    UNLEASH YOUR DREAM.Tired of sleepwalking through a mediocre life bribed by mindless video-gaming, redemptive weekends, and a scant paycheck from a soul-suffocating job? Welcome to the SCRIPTED club-- where membership is neither perceived or consented.The fact is, ever since you've been old enough to sit obediently in a classroom, you have been culturally engineered for servitude, unwittingly enslaved into a Machiavellian system where illusionary rules go unchallenged, sanctified traditions go unquestioned, and lifelong dreams go unfulfilled. As a result, your life is hijacked and marginalised into debt, despair, and dependence. Life's death sentence becomes the daily curse of the trivial and mundane. Fun fades. Dreams die. Don't let life's consolation prize become a car and a weekend.Recapture what is yours and make a revolutionary repossession of life-and-liberty through the pursuit of entrepreneurship. A paradigm shift isn't needed--the damn paradigm needs to be thrown-out altogether.The truth is, if you blindly follow conventional wisdom pushed by conventional people living conventional lives, can you expect to be anything but conventional? Rewrite life's script: ditch the job, give Wall Street the bird, and escape the insanity of trading your life away for a paycheck and an elderly promise called retirement. UNSCRIPT today and start leading life-- instead of life leading you.

Business Boutique: A Woman's Guide for Making Money Doing What She Loves


Christy Wright - 2017
    If you're ready to join them, this is your handbook that will take the ideas in your head and the dream in your heart and turn them into action. * Help you create a step-by-step, customized plan to start and grow your business * Show you how to manage your time so you can have a business-and life-that you love * Explain overwhelming business stuff like pricing, taxes, and budgeting in simple terms *Teach you how to use marketing to reach the right people in the right way

Worry-Free Money: Stop budgeting, Start Living


Shannon Lee Simmons - 2017
    Life is expensive. It doesn’t matter if you make $40,000 or $140,000 a year, it can feel like you’re constantly broke. Can you afford that new car, that vacation, that night out? You think so, but it feels impossible to know. And rigid budgets that force you to spend your money in unrealistic ways (like $9.50 per week for pants) don’t make things any clearer.But what if there was a new way to manage your money? One that left you certain you had your bases covered—both for your monthly bills and your future retirement—and then let you enjoy your money by spending it. (Yes, we just said that.)Enter Shannon Lee Simmons, a totally new voice in the world of personal finance, one who understands the new and very real pressures to survive modern life and keep up in the age of social media. Shannon doesn’t lecture, judge or patronize. The founder of the wildly popular New School of Finance, Shannon recognized that most of her thousands of clients felt broke, no matter what their income. And feeling broke can be as bad as actually being broke, because it leads to overspending and misery.Worry-Free Money takes a fresh approach to finances, looking at the root cause of the pressure to spend and showing why traditional budgets don’t work. It is a deeply practical book that will help you break the cycle of guilt, understand why you overspend and find hope—and fun—in getting your money under control.

Set for Life: Dominate Life, Money, and the American Dream


Scott Trench - 2017
    By layering philosophy with practical knowledge, Set for Life gives young professionals the fiscal confidence they need to conquer financial goals early in life. Accumulating a lifetime of wealth in a short period of time involves working harder and smarter than the average person, and Set for Life demonstrates how to do just that―from zero savings to five figures, then to six figures, and finally to the ultimate goal of financial freedom. Wealth isn’t just about a nest egg, setting aside money for a “rainy day,” or accumulating an emergency fund. True wealth is about building out a Financial Runway―creating enough readily accessible wealth that you can survive without work for a year. Then five years. Then for life. Readers will learn how to: • Save more income―50+ percent of it, while still having fun • Double or triple your income in three to five years • Secure “real” assets and avoid “false” ones that destroy wealth

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing: How to Buy, Rehab, and Manage Out-of-State Rental Properties


David Greene - 2017
     Real estate investing is one of the greatest vehicles to build wealth, but it doesn’t make sense in every market. Some locations provide incredible returns, while others make it almost impossible to find a single property that profits. Traditionally, investing out of state has been considered risky and unwise. But the rules, technology, and markets have changed: No longer are you forced to invest only in your backyard! Experienced investor and real estate agent David Greene shares his in-depth strategy to build profitable rental portfolios through buying, managing, and flipping out-of-state properties. Grow your real estate investing business in any location. Build relationships with your team from miles away. Learn to recognize coming shifts in any market. Use technology to stay informed from afar. Apply checks and balances to ensure you find the best deals. Understand where to buy, where to avoid, and whom to hire for work. Don’t let your location dictate your financial freedom. Get the inside scoop to invest—and succeed—anywhere!

Millionaire Expat: How To Build Wealth Living Overseas


Andrew Hallam - 2017
    As a follow-up to The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing, this book provides savvy investment advice for everyone—no matter where you're from—to help you achieve your financial goals. Whether you're looking for safety, strong growth, or a mix of both, index funds are the answer. Low-risk and reliable, these are the investments you won't hear about from most advisors. Most advisors would rather earn whopping commissions than follow sound financial principles, but Warren Buffett and Nobel Prize winners agree that index funds are the best way to achieve market success—so who are you ready to trust with your financial future? If you want a better advisor, this book will show you how to find one; if you'd rather go it alone, this book gives you index fund strategies to help you invest in the best products for you. Learn how to invest for both safety and strong returns Discover just how much retirement will actually cost, and how much you should be saving every month Find out where to find a trustworthy advisor—or go it alone Take advantage of your offshore status to invest successfully and profitably Author Andrew Hallam was a high school teacher who built a million-dollar portfolio—on a teacher's salary. He knows how everyday people can achieve success in the market. In Millionaire Expat, he tailors his best advice to the unique needs of those living overseas to give you the targeted, real-world guidance you need.

The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How the Fools Beat Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too


Tom Gardner - 2017
    The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the current information—from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio. David and Tom Gardner have investing ideas for you, no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is designed for today’s investor, sophisticate and novice alike, with the latest information on: —Finding high-growth stocks that will beat the market over the long term —Identifying volatile young companies that traditional valuation measures may miss —Using online sources to locate untapped wellsprings of vital information The Motley Fool rose to fame in the 1990s, based on its early recommendations of stocks such as Amazon.com, PayPal, eBay, and Starbucks. Now this revised edition is tailored to help investors tackle today’s market. “If you’ve been looking for a basic book on investing in the stock market, this is it...The Gardners help empower the amateur investor with tools and strategies to beat the pros” (Chicago Tribune).

Unleash Your Inner Money Babe: Uplevel Your Money Mindset and Manifest $1,000 In 21 Days


Kathrin Zenkina - 2017
    The workbook is designed to be a fun, exciting, truth-bomb packed 21 day challenge with the goal of manifesting $1,000 by the end of the 21 days. Kathrin guides you how to do this step-by-step with her “money babe actions” that allow you to tap into your innate ability to manifest money. Society wants you to think that money is hard. But the Universe is urging you to learn the truth about money. This workbook is your key to unlocking your natural money manifesting abilities that you didn’t know you had all along. After the challenge, you’ll never go back to struggling with money again. Ever. You can find more about Kathrin on Instagram at @manifestationbabe, on Facebook by searching Manifestation Babe, or online at ManifestationBabe.com.

Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook


Anthony Robbins - 2017
    There have been 30 such corrections in the past 30 years, yet there's never been an action plan for how not only to survive, but thrive through each change in the stock market. Building upon the principles in Money: Master the Game, Robbins offers the reader specific steps they can implement to protect their investments while maximizing their wealth. It's a detailed guide designed for investors, articulated in the common-sense, practical manner that the millions of loyal Robbins fans and students have come to expect and rely upon. Few have navigated the turbulence of the stock market as adeptly and successfully as Tony Robbins. His proven, consistent success over decades makes him singularly qualified to help investors (both seasoned and first-timers alike) preserve and add to their investments.

Ten Metaphysical Secrets of Manifesting Money: Spiritual Insights into Attaining Prosperity, Riches, Abundance, Wealth, and Affluence


James Goi Jr. - 2017
    This is one of the most power-packed prosperity books around. Anyone can attract more money using simple metaphysical and mind power techniques, but advanced money attractors have a deeper grasp of the subtler spiritual truths underlying the money-manifesting process. You can attract a lot more money than you ever have before, and this book will give you the knowledge you need to be able to do it just as naturally as you now breathe.In fact, this life-changing little book will teach you that the money you want is actually here now, that it is a part of you, and that you already have it. Within these covers resides an astounding power, which will become increasingly apparent to you over time and with subsequent readings, and spurred on by this power, you can begin to turn your financial dreams into reality. Table of Contents: Secret One......: You Already Have ItSecret Two......: It Is Not Separate from YouSecret Three...: It Is Not in Your FutureSecret Four.....: It Is Right for You to Have ItSecret Five......: You Are Worthy of Having ItSecret Six........: A Higher You Wants ItSecret Seven...: Inspiration Beats PlanningSecret Eight.....: Be a Person Who Has ItSecret Nine......: Cooperate with the UniverseSecret Ten.......: Spread the Good AroundAttracting more money, manifesting wealth, creating a life of prosperity, abundance, and affluence—these are things anyone can accomplish, but relatively few do. The difference between the haves and the have nots? It’s a mental difference. It all starts in the mind, with the power of thought. This book will teach you how to think in a way that will raise you to glorious new heights of success, achievement, and financial freedom.

24 Assets: Create a digital, scalable, valuable and fun business that will thrive in a fast changing world


Daniel Priestley - 2017
    They effortlessly hire talented people, attract loyal customers, create cool products and make lots of money. These companies seem to stand out and scale up quickly with support from investors, partners and the media. Sadly, most companies don’t perform this way. Most entrepreneurs aren’t building anything of value. They work hard, make sacrifices, struggle, dream, plan and strive, but in the end, it doesn’t pay off. This book sets out a method for building a business that becomes a valuable asset. It focuses you on transforming your organisation into something scalable, digital, fun and capable of making an impact. It’s time to, stand out, scale up and build a business that has a life of its own. Start now by reading this book.

How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained


Beverly Blair Harzog - 2017
    DK's visual approach breaks new ground. In graphics, charts, and diagrams, How Money Works demystifies processes and answers the hundreds of financial questions we all have.Money facilitates the billions of transactions that take place every day across the globe. Using 'need to know' boxes, step-by-step diagrams, and other eye-catching visuals, How Money Works shows you how this is possible. It explains economic theories, how governments raise and control money, what goes on in the stock exchange, how analysts predict where shares are heading, and many other issues. It busts jargon, explaining terms such as quantitative easing, cash flow, bonds, superannuation, and the open market.Our forefathers may have used simple bartering to exchange goods and services, but today we depend on complicated financial instruments for pensions, life assurance, mortgages, and more. How Money Works explains how these work, as well as how to avoid on-line fraud and where to invest.With information on the latest forms of funding and currencies such as Bitcoin, this comprehensive book will fast track you to financial literacy and getting the most from your hard-won cash.

Beginning Magic Money: A Course in Creating Abundance, Book One (Magic Money Books 1)


Holly Alexander - 2017
     This book shares my simple Magic Money Philosophy and the steps needed to go from striving to thriving, from lack to abundance. If you’re like me, you watched The Secret, attended seminars, and studied every other new-age and new-thought authors and teachers, but with little success. Eventually, I combined the different advice I’d received and started to develop what I’ve nicknamed "Magic Money." But don’t get me wrong—this isn’t the woo-woo, Law of Attraction stuff you’ve heard before. Magic Money is practical prosperity that, when you practice it, works like a charm. And, it usually starts within 24 hours! Once I started thinking, saying, and doing a series of practical actions on a consistent basis, I have never been without exactly what I needed. This Course shares everything I’ve discovered, including the exact process I used, and continue to use, to this day. Many people fail at engaging in new ideas because they try to do everything all at one. I know from experience that taking small steps consistently over time is the true secret to success. Each book carefully takes you down your own path from lack to abundance with simple, easy to do action steps that make sense. • Book One of this course, Beginning Magic Money, includes a 30-day Experiment. This experiment will eliminate your doubt once and for all. You’ll prove to yourself, once and for all, there is an abundance of everything you want and need (including money) available to you. • In Book Two, Advanced Magic Money, I share next-level techniques and instructions for activating magic money into your life—along with money, clients, goods, services, and opportunities. You’ll know how to allocate your money to activate your own stream of magic money, now and forever. • Finally, in Magic Money Mastery, Book Three in the series, I’ll share my extra-special, high-level advice for how to effortlessly expand your abundance until your every desire and whim is granted almost instantaneously. Scroll up and get your copy of Beginning Magic Money and start your own flow of abundance today!

What Every Indian Should Know Before Investing: Edition 2017


Vinod Pottayil - 2017
    From Fixed Deposits to PPF to Real Estate, Gold, Mutual Funds, Stocks and more. Understanding each of these investment options can be a challenge to the new investor. This book aims to explain all the popular investment options in detail along with their advantages, disadvantages, taxation, etc. Along with investment options, this book also has chapters on Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Writing a Will, Making a Financial Plan and Investment Terms - topics that will ensure that the reader has a holistic view of investing. This new edition has a chapter on Essential Formulas that will help investors manage their personal finances better. All topics are explained in a simple, easy-to-understand manner!

Take Your Shot: How to Grow Your Business, Attract More Clients, and Make More Money


Robin Waite - 2017
    TAKE YOUR SHOT is ultimately an answer to the question: “How Can I Grow My Business, Attract More Clients, and Make More Money?” TAKE YOUR SHOT is the story about Russ Hibbert. Russ is a hard worker, dedicated to his wife and children, and building a career as a golf professional. But one day he wakes up and realises his business is going nowhere. A chance meeting with a business coach, David, leads to a dramatic change and an opportunity, for Russ, to design the business that he always wanted. TAKE YOUR SHOT will teach you: To change your perceptions of your own business so that you get out of your own way To set a brave goal, develop a strong desire to overcome obstacles, and the activities required to achieve your goal How to build desirable products, price those products confidently and demonstrate value to prospects How to get the business and life you’ve always dreamed of, increased prosperity, and to have fun! “TAKE YOUR SHOT is a great easy to read book that contains some serious messages for anyone working hard at building a business. I came across a phrase many years ago which can apply to many self-employed individuals 'it's easy to become a busy fool'. Reading this book will stop you falling into that trap as the serious messages are about the importance of belief, aiming high, being brave creating systems and surrounding yourself with the right people. A very uplifting read as the reader follows the journey of the main character as he learns to work smarter and enjoy life again.” Sandra Webber, High-Performance Coach and Author of Own It - Regain Control and Live Life on Your Terms

Smart Women Love Money: 5 Simple, Life-Changing Rules of Investing


Alice Finn - 2017
    Why? A myriad of factors cause women to earn less than men over a lifetime, making it all the more imperative that we make the money we do have work for us as much as possible. And here’s a reality check: as many as nine out of ten of us will have to manage our finances and those of our family at some point in our lives. And a lot of us think that means keeping our money “safe” in savings accounts, and not investing it. But not doing so has an opportunity cost that will lead to opportunities lost—the ability to pay for a college education, own a home, change careers to pursue a dream, or retire. Alice Finn wants to change how you think about your money, no matter how much or little you have. In Smart Women Love Money, Finn paves the way forward by showing you that the power of investing is the last frontier of feminism. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a successful wealth management adviser, Finn shares five simple and proven strategies for a woman at any stage of her life, whether starting a career, home raising children, or heading up a major corporation. Finn’s Five Life-changing Rules of Investing will secure your financial future: 1. Invest in Stocks for the Long Run: Get the magic of compounding working for you, starting now. 2. Allocate your Assets: Strategize your investing to get the most of your returns. 3. Implement with Index Funds: Take advantage of “passive” investing with simple, low-cost, and diverse funds. 4. Rebalance Regularly: Sell high and buy low without much effort, to keep you on track toward your goals. 5. Keep Your Fees Low: Uncover hidden fees so you don’t lose half of your wealth to Wall Street. Finn will also provide the tools you need to achieve long-term success no matter what the markets are doing or what the headlines say. So even in the face of uncertainty— such as the possible dumping of the fiduciary rule (requiring financial advisers to act in their client’s best interests) by the Trump administration—Smart Women Love Money will help you protect yourself and all of your assets for your future. Whether you have $10, $10,000, or more, it’s time to get smart about your money.

Dream Big: Let Your Financial Plan Make Your Dreams Come True


Mukesh Jindal - 2017
    Today, he is the owner of a flourishing taxi service business and is scouting around to buy a Mercedes Benz...not on a loan but with the wealth he has amassed over the years! How did he get from being a driver to a millionaire? Three simple secrets - he had the courage to dream big, learn about financial planning and implement what he learnt. Now, while you don't need anyone to help you to dream big, here is a book that will teach you everything that Vaibhav learnt. All you have to do is find the tenacity to implement it. Everything, from the importance of saving and investing and the need for life and health insurance to various investment products like mutual funds, SIP, PPF etc. that can enable you to build wealth, is explained in this book in simple and jargon free language. It helps you to choose instruments that are most suitable for you and explains why you would be better off without others. Dream Big simplifies and breaks down common financial planning principles such as risk profiling, asset allocation, portfolio construction, rebalancing etc. and explains the tax implications of various investment decisions. It also contains sections on planning for retirement and a legacy, and financial planning for women, divorced individuals, defence employees, senior citizens, etc.

One Proud Penny


Randy Siegel - 2017
    Who knew the life of a penny could be so exciting?Born in 1983, our copper (well, zinc and copper as we find out) narrator travels everywhere from New York City to Portland, Oregon, to Puerto Rico describing in colorful detail his many adventures along the way.Randy Siegel's quirky, informative text mixed with Serge Bloch's spare but exuberant illustrations (which make use of real pennies) make this book a must-have for lovers of American history or just a good story.A Neal Porter Book

Grownups are Just Kids with Money


Vinod Desai - 2017
    Why do salary slips look so complicated? How to save taxes? What are mutual funds? Where do I invest my parent’s retirement savings? What’s an income tax return?What to look for in a financial planner? How and where does one start investing?Written in plain English, this book cuts through the noise and helps you understand everything you need to know about growing money, and managing finances in India.Whether you’ve just started earning, or are thinking about investing, you’ll find answers to all these questions and more, in this one power packed book.

Wealth Building Secrets from the Bible: The Believer's Journey to a Faithful, Generous, and Financially Free Life


Jonathan Geraci - 2017
    In this book you will discover a Biblical holistic view on wealth that may surprise you. You will learn how modern financial advisors and the ancient words of scripture agree. These simple and engaging strategies will teach you Biblical habits for building wealth. In this book you will discover • how to apply the fruits of the Spirit into your financial life. • learn the emotional and spiritual consequences of debt and how to escape! • 5 money myths that many Christians fall into. • 4 secrets from the Bible for building wealth. • discover how to practice “outrageous” generosity. You can turn around your financial life by learning financial habits that are found in scripture. What’s stopping you from applying the Bible to every aspect of your life -- including your finances?

Wealth Can't Wait: Empower Your Freedom, Create Your Future and Build a Life Worth Living


David Osborn - 2017
    In 'Wealth Can't Wait', they share their decades of knowledge, debunk the myth that building wealth is often difficult, and demonstrate how you can create horizontal income streams to enjoy more financial freedom throughout your life.Far from a get-rich-quick formula, 'Wealth Can't Wait' equips you with a comprehensive set of wealth-building skills that will serve you throughout your life. Osborn and Morris's tested and proven five-part strategy outlines what is required to build wealth - from making the initial choice to dealing with setbacks - and details how to cultivate the mindset, habits, business, and momentum to secure the greatest results. The book's valuable tips, building blocks, and lessons from the authors' own experiences will inspire you to start achieving your financial ambitions today.

Studio 54


Ian Schrager - 2017
    Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with star-studded photographs and personal stories from the greatest party of all time. From the moment it opened in 1977, Studio 54 celebrated spectacle and promised a never-ending parade of anything goes. Although it existed for only three years, it served as a catalyst that brought together some of the most famous and creative people in the world. It quickly became known for its celebrity guest list and uniquely chic clientele. From the cutting-edge lighting displays to its elaborate sets, it was the beginning of nightclub as performance art. Now, Studio 54 explores this cultural zeitgeist and gives us Schrager's personal firsthand account of what it was like to create and run the most famous nightclub of our age. With hundreds of photographs, many of which have never been seen before, of the celebrities and beautiful people and engaging stories and quotes from such cultural luminaries as Liza Minelli, David Geffen, Brooke Shields, Pat Cleveland, and Diane von Furstenberg, this exciting volume depicts the wild energy and glittering creativity of the era. One of the most important cultural landmarks of the twentieth century, Studio 54 continues to inspire with its legendary glamour. This exhilarating volume is a must-have for style and fashion aficionados today.

Advanced Magic Money: A Course in Creating Abundance: Book Two (Magic Money Books 2)


Holly Alexander - 2017
     This book shares more about my simple Magic Money Philosophy and the steps needed to go from striving to thriving, from lack to abundance forever. If you’re like me, you watched The Secret, attended seminars, and studied every other new-age and new-thought authors and teachers, but with little success. Eventually, I combined the different advice I’d received and started to receive what I’ve nick-named "Magic Money." But don’t get me wrong—this isn’t the woo-woo, Law of Attraction stuff you’ve heard before. Magic Money is practical prosperity that, when you practice it, works like a charm. And, it usually starts within 24 hours! Once I started thinking, saying, and doing a series of practical actions on a consistent basis, I have never been without exactly what I needed. This Course shares everything I’ve discovered, including the exact process I used, and continue to use, to this day. Many people fail at engaging in new ideas because they try to do everything all at one. I know from experience that taking small steps consistently over time is the true secret to success. Each book carefully takes you down your own path from lack to abundance with simple, easy to do action steps that make sense. • Book One of this course, Beginning Magic Money, includes a 30-day Experiment. This experiment will eliminate your doubt once and for all. You’ll prove to yourself, once and for all, there is an abundance of everything you want and need (including money) available to you. • In Book Two, Advanced Magic Money, I share next-level techniques and instructions for activating magic money into your life—along with money, clients, goods, services, and opportunities. You’ll know how to allocate your money to activate your own stream of magic money, now and forever. • Finally, in Magic Money Mastery, Book Three in the series, I’ll share my extra-special, high-level advice for how to effortlessly expand your abundance until your every desire and whim is granted almost instantaneously. Scroll up and get your copy of Advanced Magic Money and start your own flow of abundance today!

Running Still


Steven Sheiner - 2017
    Less than a year after escaping the big city for a taste of the simple life, his family is sick. His wife and kids have all been diagnosed with a never before seen illness. But why isn't he sick? And how is there already a drug available for this new disease? Jack will stop at nothing to get answers, and to save his family. With the help of some surprising and unexpected friends, he uncovers a conspiracy that is bigger than anything he could have imagined. But is it more than he can handle? Filled with action, drama, and suspense, Running Still is a roller coaster ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end!

Advanced How To Become Money Workbook


Gary M. Douglas - 2017
     But, is money any of those things? No, its not. Money is energy, just as are you energy. There is no difference between you and money except the points of view that you give it. What if you could BE money? What if you could BE the energy that creates, generates, and produces money? If you could change your financial reality by looking at the points of view you have about money, would you choose to do so? The Advanced How to Become Money Workbook by Gary M. Douglas picks up where the original How to Become Money Workbook leaves off. It is full of more advanced questions and processes designed to facilitate the insane and limited points of view you have created around money and to create greater ease in your life—with a lot more money and currency flows.

Recipe for Forex & Indices Investing


R.B. Nthulane - 2017
    No indicators or robots used. It is not for scalpers but swing traders. It will get you to where you always wanted to be through trading.

Exotic Ink Series: Book Bundle (Books 1-3) Boxed Set Collection


L.S. Anders - 2017
     Book 1 – Vehn Vehn Mathieu possesses one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. He has everything money can buy, but there’s a huge piece missing from his exceptional life that can’t be bought – a soulmate. He longs to find a woman who wants the man behind the persona, a woman who can see beyond the façade. When he finally finds the one, she is completely unaware of his true identity. Will she be able to come to grips with his celebrity and love the man behind the name? Callie Mackenzie is well-known in her own little niche. Her beauty, talent, and radiant personality hide the dark, jagged scars of her past that threaten to extinguish the light of her future. Her seemingly iron-clad armor can barely protect the fractured soul of the woman beneath as she fights a daily battle to preserve the happiness she has strived so hard to achieve. Finished with abusive men, she prefers to daydream about the one she thinks she’ll never meet. But when Callie’s fantasy becomes her reality, how will she slay her own demons to be with him? Vehn and Callie together. When forces outside their control threaten to destroy their fragile new bond, Vehn and Callie come face to face with her deep-rooted insecurities. Their chemistry is unshakable, but is their untried relationship strong enough to endure the hardships of his fame and her past? Is the reward of being together worth the price each must pay to keep their one true love? Book 2 – Tegan Jaded, cynical, and emotionless… Tegan Steele had no idea his Achilles heel would come in the form of a demure blonde. The last thing he wants is another relationship, but Rayna Nichols reawakens a part of him he thought was long buried and proves to be more than he can handle. Kindhearted, shy, and soft-spoken… Rayna Nichols can’t seem to keep her eyes or hands to herself after meeting fellow tattoo artist, Tegan Steele. Aside from being sinfully sexy, she discovers there’s more to this hardened bad boy than meets the eye. Book 3 – Jason A love lost, but never forgotten. An opportunity realized. He gives up everything for a chance to win the heart of his one true love. Separated by years, the sacrifice he must make might prove too much. Will she give him another chance to win her heart? Locked in the hell of her past, she finds herself longing for a future. One that isn’t teeming with deadly secrets. Haunted by the loss of her beloved spouse, she can’t seem to disentangle herself from his ghost or the enemies that still seek her out. When new friends prove to be more than they appear, giving Jason and Evana a chance to start over, will they take it? Or, is it already too late?

The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism


Joel Solomon - 2017
    It will remake the world and be the biggest money-making opportunity in history.Business as usual, founded on exploitation and environmental ruin, is over. Climate catastrophe, reactionary politics, and widening inequity have put the world on edge. Meanwhile innovations are shifting the economic ground, and an entire generation is pounding the table for real change. Capitalism is evolving into a force that can restore the planet, transform the global economy, and bring justice to people.Joel Solomon, impact investor and change agent, lays it on the line. The Clean Money Revolution is part memoir of an inspiring thought leader's journey from presidential campaigner to pioneering investor, part insider's guide to the businesses remaking the world, and part manifesto for a new vision of profit, power, and purpose.Meet some of the people behind this massive shift, and discover the role you can play in the $50-trillion movement toward true prosperity. A must-read for investors, wealth advisors, aspiring entrepreneurs, and all who want their values and money to work together to transform the future.The Clean Money Revolution is on. Join it!

Freelance to Freedom: The Roadmap for Creating a Side Business to Achieve Financial, Time and Life Freedom


Vincent Pugliese - 2017
    After winning the highest award in his field, Vincent was offered a 3 percent raise. He knew at that moment he needed a monumental change. One month away from their baby being born, Vincent and Elizabeth started a side photography business out of desperation. In less than four years, they grew their business to pay off all of their debt, including their home, and left their jobs for a life of freedom. With the world moving rapidly towards a freelance model, Freelance to Freedom is not only timely and necessary, but it’s also entertaining, engaging and paints a picture for anyone looking for a life of freedom with money, time and location.

Efficiency: Get Rich Without Giving Up Your Life


Wall Street Playboys - 2017
    We’ve seen many people become rich… yet they lack social skills (trapped in relationships they desperately want to escape) or… their bodies have seen material physical decay. We’re putting out the framework in this book and you’ll have all of the tools you need to get get rich and have a fun life at the same time.We’re not going to lie and say this is a “guarantee” to become rich. There are no guarantees. Getting rich and winning at life is no different than sports. We can give you every single step to take and how to do it. But. It is up to YOU to execute on the steps. Instead of buying 10 different books at the same time, we’ll give everything out in ten key beneficial points:1) How to get into the top 10% physically with one hour a day of exercise per day. You’re going to be busy and unless you’re a professional athlete, dedicating an hour a day will be enough. This is the first step to become a well rounded individual as a healthy person can work longer hours, has more energy to go out and have fun and extends his life (the most valuable asset in the world: Time)2) How to eat correctly to be in the top 10%. We’ll give you the rough blue print for items to eat on a daily basis. By simply following the framework you won’t need to count calories/macros etc since we’re trying to be efficient with our time. By following the framework, you will have less stress (no longer calculating everything you eat) and you’ll give yourself some wiggle room to go out and drink when you feel like it.3) How to figure out what type of intelligence you have. We give you a process to figure out where your skills are. Everyone has *relative* advantage in at least 2-3 categories. Use this to your advantage and develop your natural talents. We believe talent matters more than passions. Talents are natural to you and if they didn’t exist everyone would be able to make money in the exact same industries or throw a fastball at 100mph. Finding your type of intelligence is the first step to becoming rich.4) How to use this type of intelligence to choose a career and the *right* company: Wall Street, Technology or Sales. We have talked about this in the past and you’ll notice we’re adding a new wrinkle. We’re giving you the tools to figure out what company to join. You’ll have basic mathematical formulas that will tell you if you should join Company A or Company B when the offers come rolling in.5) How to start an online business and sell (the basics and all you need to start). This one is self explanatory. We go into details on how to start an online business and how to sell. The best thing about online businesses? The margin structure. As you’ll see the cost of running a website is practically nothing and you’ll need minimal start up capital to begin today.6) Clear outline of how to create and start an online product business with correct copywriting. You’ll never be an expert in sales. No one is! Why? Every single second invested in learning more about sales will lead to a financial return. The game continues to evolve but we can give you the basic framework to start.7) How to go into affiliate marketing if someone wants to take a stab at the competitive space. We give you both the legitimate affiliate marketing route and the dark side as well. The overnight success stories are “too good to be true” because they are. That said there are legitimate ways to do affiliate marketing as well. If you don’t want to create a product (yet) most people start here and move to starting a Company later (once they learn a specific niche)8) Overview of how affiliate marketing operates and how to do it. Beyond the overview, we also tell you how to do it. Both the legitimate way and the dark side as well. We explain why the legitimate way is better long-term, but we’d be lying if we said everyone is selling on an equal playing field (they are not).9) How to do all of this and maintain a normal social life (avoid choking off your personality). This puts everything together, we give a basic schedule and explain how to improve your social skills and meet new people frequently without losing traction with your business and career. If you’re able to keep your composure and go out twice a week, you’ll see your phone numbers increase and you’ll be much more interesting than the average person who works, sleeps and watches TV all day.10) Common questions and a schedule.We provide a rough schedule on a weekly basis under the assumption that a person is not rich yet. In addition, we answer a large number of common questions and provide good answers to “questions around morality” which essentially says “Break every single rule you can because someone else will, just don’t break the law. Ever.” this is essentially the gray area that you’ll operate in if you’re new to any field.

Populism: The Phenomenon


Ray Dalio - 2017
    It's so potent that he and a team at Bridgewater Associates, the $150 billion hedge fund he founded, published a 61-page paper on it.The research is titled, "Populism: The Phenomenon."Dalio defines populism as "a rebellion of the common man against the elites, and to some extent, against the system." Over the last year, it has become a tremendously influential force, he said.He tallied the share of votes received by populist candidates in developed countries around the world to create an index. The chart, on the first page below, shows a spike in populism recently – the highest since the 1930's.

The Debt Consolidation Myth: A Proven Method to Help You Get Out of Debt While Still Living Your Life


Jesse Mecham - 2017
    Let’s have you destroy your debt. Let’s have you be rid of it forever. That’s exactly what this 80/20 guide is going to give you—a sure-fire, bulletproof, tried and true method for destroying your debt. Debt, in almost any form, is lame. Nope, “lame” is probably not a strong enough word for it. Debt is a burden. Debt’s a drain. It’s a mood killer. It’s a relationship strainer. It’s a cash flow crusher. Sheesh. It takes the fun out of just about everything. Sure, you’ll hear fancy-pants people tell you about “good” debt and “bad” debt and the like. They’ll discuss fancy terms like “opportunity cost” or the value of using “OPM” (other people’s money, and if you didn’t know what OPM meant, bless you). They may even use another three-letter acronym like “ROI” when they’re talking about how you can leverage debt and get a better return on your investment. Well, we’re not talking about capitalization of a multi-conglomerate business. We’re talking about your personal finances. And when it comes to personal finances, debt is a draining, mood-killing, cash flow-crushing burden—and it’s lame. Heck, debt collectors, big banks, attorneys ... they all make debt personal. So I think it’s safe to say that your debt belongs right square in the middle of what we’d call your personal finance. Yes, let’s make this very personal. Let’s talk about how you got into this mess of debt, where you want to go, and how you’ll get there. And, true to our 80/20 guide form, I’ll tell you everything you need to know and do as quickly as possible. Unless I see a good opportunity for a joke, where I’ll drag it out just a bit longer.

Smart Portfolios: A Practical Guide to Building and Maintaining Intelligent Investment Portfolios


Robert Carver - 2017
    At its heart are the three key questions every investor needs to answer: 1. What to invest in. 2. How much to invest. 3. When to make changes to a portfolio. Author Robert Carver addresses these three areas by providing a single integrated approach to portfolio management. He shows how to follow a step-by-step process to build a multi-asset investment portfolio, and how to rebalance the portfolio efficiently. He covers both investment in collective funds like ETFs, and also direct investment in individual equities. Important features include: -- Why forecasting future returns is so difficult, and how to account for uncertainty when making investment decisions. -- How to accurately calculate the true costs of an investment, including costs that you may not even be aware of. -- How to select the best ETF for each asset class. -- How to compare the costs and other features of different ETFs. -- How to select individual shares. -- Calculating the number of shares needed for adequate diversification. -- How to use systematic forecasting algorithms to adjust portfolio allocations. -- How to cut trading costs through smart rebalancing strategies and execution tactics. Robert Carver also explains how to blend assets with different levels of risk, and how to construct portfolios that suit the level of risk that the investor can cope with. Smart Portfolios is detailed, comprehensive, and full of practical methods, rules of thumb and techniques, all fully explained with examples. It is intended for professional investors worldwide, including financial advisors, private bankers, wealth managers and institutional funds; as well as experienced private investors.

Magic Money Journal: A Journal for Creating Abundance (Magic Money Books Book 4)


Holly Alexander - 2017
     Holly Alexander's powerful Magic Money series ignited a quiet revolution; filling bank accounts, restoring peace of mind, and transforming the thoughts of anyone lucky enough to discover this series. And now she's distilled the process in this powerful journal. In these pages, you'll discover... • Simple techniques for raising your vibration • What to do when you feel doubt, fear, or lack • Daily guided journal entries to keep you on track • The Seven Simple Magic Money Steps • Free group support for your Magic Money journey • 25 powerful mantras to flip any situation • The One Minute Magic Money Method The perfect accompaniment to the Magic Money series, this special journal equips you with all the tools you need to jumpstart and maintain your Magic Money journey. After all, as Holly says, “If you can think it, then to become it, you must ink it.”

The Little Book of the Business Cycle


Raoul Pal - 2017
     And so does every single business. Yet mainstream economists rarely forecast recessions or booms because they don’t spend enough time understanding the Business Cycle. In this book, Raoul Pal, an advisor to many of the world’s greatest hedge fund investors, shows you exactly how you can easily forecast the ups and downs in the economy, your business and your investments better than most on Wall Street. His powerful but simple framework will give you the understanding you need to maximize your profit potential.

The 12% Solution


David Alan Carter - 2017
    A strategy that’s not pie-in-the-sky and not just a bunch of theory, but rather a systematic plan that is backed up with real numbers showing it clearly beating the S&P 500 over time. A trading strategy that’s understandable, repeatable, that works and works simply.Anyone can do this. In simple-to-understand language, you’ll discover---- The six ETFs that power the strategy, and why.-- The simple technique for identifying which of those ETFs to buy, and which to sell. And most importantly, when.-- How $5,000 can end up $1,000,000 in your retirement portfolio.-- How to protect your portfolio during market downturns with a simple cash trigger.-- In short, how to earn an average of 12% annually in the stock market with minimal trading, less volatility, and less risk.Beat "The Street" in just 20 minutes.If you have 20 minutes a month and a computer, you can turn any investment amount into a steadily growing compounding machine that will make you the envy of Mad Money’s Jim Cramer and 99% of all mutual fund managers.Make just 2-4 trades one day a month. The strategy tells you what ETFs to buy and what to sell. That’s it. Then turn off the computer and go live your life.

The GameDev Business Handbook


Michael Futter - 2017
     It features interviews with more than 25 prominent members of the video game industry, including Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail, Capybara Games’ Nathan Vella, Romero Games’ Brenda Romero, video game attorney Ryan Morrison, Klei Entertainment’s Jamie Cheng, Supergiant Games’ Amir Rao, Harebrained Schemes’ Jordan Weisman, Ninja Theory’s Nina Kristensen and many, many more. The Handbook features expert guidance and in-the-trenches anecdotes on budgeting and finance (complete with links to downloadable worksheets), incorporation, contracts and employment, intellectual property, press and public relations. If you’re considering crowdfunding, early access, or pursuing a licensed property, The GameDev Business Handbook can help steer you toward success. The book features triumphant stories and cautionary tales, with advice from those who have been where you want to go. Built with love, The GameDev Business Handbook is crafted with guidance from game industry veterans: those who produce games, attend every show, help other developers every day, and aspire to support a better environment for game production. These are the experts who make the games industry a better place for the next generation.

Rock Retirement: A Simple Guide to Help You Take Control and be More Optimistic About the Future


Roger Whitney - 2017
    Traditional retirement advice usually boils down to saving more, sacrificing more, and settling for less. This approach makes people dependent on systems outside their control, such as the market, economy, and investment returns. The result: people lose power over determining their life. What sets Rock Retirement apart is its holistic approach to helping people take back control and act intentionally towards the life they want. It addresses the fears, hopes, and dreams that people have about retirement, goes way beyond the numbers, and shows them how to balance living well today and tomorrow.

Wealth by Virtue


Chad Gordon - 2017
    Wealth is the absence of that fear. Wealth by Virtue is a masterful explanation of our financial world. The book is structured around The Six Areas of Finance: banking, investments, real estate, insurance, legal planning, and tax planning. Everything in your personal finances fits into these categories. By recognizing this structure, you make them all work together and put yourself on the path to wealth-optimized decisions. Wealth by Virtue is a personal finance book that builds a conceptual framework to aim for a better financial future. In the BANKING chapter, he shows you: ... how inflation is the most certain threat to personal finances ... how most people don’t make money in banks In the chapter on INVESTMENTS, he shows you: ... how much the stock market performs each year ... how using dividends for income can actually grow your wealth in retirement In the REAL ESTATE chapter, he shows you: ... why using extra money to paying off your house generally puts you in a poorer position than saving it up ... how buying real estate shields from your biggest inflation threat In the INSURANCE chapter, he shows you: ... why all insurance decisions begin with your insurable needs and how to calculate this ... how to know if you need long term care insurance or if you can self-insure In the chapter on LEGAL PLANNING, he shows you: ... whether you should get a trust or a will ... why putting “joint” on accounts and property can be a massive mistake In the chapter on TAXES, he shows you: ... how people can receive Social Security without paying taxes ... how tax deferral does not usually help you Wealth by Virtue looks at your personal finances, financial planning, and retirement planning as a comprehensive structure rather than as unrelated components. Invest in your copy now to get your finances working and maximize your retirement planning today.

Book More Business: Make Money Speaking


Lois Creamer - 2017
    It offers everything you need to know for jump-starting your speaking business or taking an already-successful speaking business to the next level. At the core of these lessons? The imperative to make money speaking. Lois Creamer contends that even if you have the most interesting and important message in the world, it will go unheard if you don’t have a platform. Book More Business: Make Money Speaking illustrates how to get that platform and how to be well paid for your work. Discover how to: • Develop a powerful positioning statement that describes you by concept and outcome • Identify target markets and find the decision-makers who will hire you • Leverage social media to find prospects and attract followers • Utilize additional revenue streams to complement your speaking income If you’re a professional speaker (or you’d like to be) and you need a practical strategy for booking more business and making more money speaking, this book was written for you. What Others are Saying About Book More Business: Make Money Speaking: “If you asked me to name the one person who could help you build a speaking business, only one person would come to mind, and that is Lois Creamer.” ―Shep Hyken, CSP, CPAE “A must read and Lois Creamer is a must-have resource in your business.” ―Scott McKain, CSP, CPAE "Consider this book your personal coach for moving your career into high gear.” ―Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE "Be prepared to watch both your joy and your success escalate!” ―Glenna Salsbury, CSP, CPAE "My bank account, heart, and creative focus rely on her wisdom based fairy dust." ―Jessica Pettitt, CSP

The Treasure Principle: Revised and Updated


Randy Alcorn - 2017
    Every paragraph has been carefully edited and updated to make the book more relevant and useful to readers in their journey of generosity.

Starting a Business: Turn Your Passion Into A Thriving Business - How To Start an Online Business That Will Crush It!: A Rookie Entrepreneur Start Up Guide ... Entrepreneurship Start Up Series Book 1)


Gundi Gabrielle - 2017
    if instead you could turn something you love and are passionate about into a full time income?With an exact step-by-step plan that shows you how to get from A to Z while avoiding the pitfalls most rookie entrepreneurs fall into? How would that change your life? It may seem like a far-away dream, but that is exactly what this little start up guide by Top 100 Business Author and Lifestyle Entrepreneur Gundi Gabrielle will teach you! Step by step - while having fun along the way!! Whether it is chapters like:  "How to chill with the M-Word" (aka Marketing) "Sassyliscious Brand Explosion" or the occasional "Boo-Boo Alert" Gundi and her flagship SassyZenGirl humor readers of the "Sassy....NO CLUE!" series have come to love, take a difficult subject and turn it into an easy-to-understand, fun journey that anyone can use as a roadmap for turning their passion into a business.This book is not about writing a detailed business plan or setting up an LLC.The No Fluff/No BS Blueprint on How to start a business that will CRUSH IT!! is about the core principles of modern marketing as practiced by successful entrepreneurs a la Gary Vaynerchuk, Neil Patel, Jon Morrow, Evan Carmichael, Russel Brunson and many others.Not pitching or pestering people - or any other sleazy salesman tactics - but rather truly caring about your customers and clients, bullding long lasting relationships and creating win-win situations for everyone involved. Finding out what people actually want and need and then tailoring your product to their needs, so they'll love buying from you, rather than you pursuing them. Sound a lot more fun? Even more fun: you will learn how to harness the formidable marketing power of today's internet platforms to:  grow an enthusiastic following of people who share your passion  provide the

Magic Money Mastery: A Course in Creating Abundance: Book Three (Magic Money Books 3)


Holly Alexander - 2017
     This book shares the ways to accelerate my simple Magic Money Philosophy and everything you need to know to go from striving to thriving, from lack to abundance forever. If you’re like me, you watched The Secret, attended seminars, and studied every other new-age and new-thought authors and teachers, but with little success. Eventually, I combined the different advice I’d received and started to receive what I’ve nick-named "Magic Money." But don’t get me wrong—this isn’t the woo-woo, Law of Attraction stuff you’ve heard before. Magic Money is practical prosperity that, when you practice it, works like a charm. And, it usually starts within 24 hours! Once I started thinking, saying, and doing a series of practical actions on a consistent basis, I have never been without exactly what I needed. This Course shares everything I’ve discovered, including the exact process I used, and continue to use, to this day. Many people fail at engaging in new ideas because they try to do everything all at one. I know from experience that taking small steps consistently over time is the true secret to success. Each book carefully takes you down your own path from lack to abundance with simple, easy to do action steps that make sense. • Book One of this course, Beginning Magic Money, includes a 30-day Experiment. This experiment will eliminate your doubt once and for all. You’ll prove to yourself, once and for all, there is an abundance of everything you want and need (including money) available to you. • In Book Two, Advanced Magic Money, I share next-level techniques and instructions for activating magic money into your life—along with money, clients, goods, services, and opportunities. You’ll know how to allocate your money to activate your own stream of magic money, now and forever. • Finally, in Magic Money Mastery, Book Three in the series, I’ll share my extra-special, high-level advice for how to effortlessly expand your abundance until your every desire and whim is granted almost instantaneously. Scroll up and get your copy of Magic Money Mastery and cement your own flow of abundance today!

How to Avoid Investment Traps: A Guide to Independent Investing: In the world's fastest growing economy - India


Khalid A. Khan - 2017
    Some of the aspects this book deals in detail are as follows: 1. How someone who is working in a full-time job, has little or no understanding of finance, has no interest or time to follow the market or financial news, can invest their money in the best available financial products, INDEPENDENTLY. 2. How to PROTECT oneself from falling into the investment traps laid by an army of commission-based agents, distributors or bank representative selling risky and poor return products that earn the sellers the highest commission? 3. Who is a WEALTHY person? The real and practical definition may surprise you. 4. How to arrive at the “REAL” Return on Investment, not the RETURN that is displayed on the product brochures and marketing materials of the product? 5. What are the biggest investment MISTAKES or Investment TRAPS and how to avoid them? 6. Do you really need an Investment Advisor’s services? This step by step guide will take you through each step, starting from how to find your current assets, liabilities, net-worth, income, expenses and saving potential and up to creating a Financial Plan that is specific to your needs. This will also tell you the ways and means to achieve all those goals such as owning a house, children’s education, retirement planning, etc. Suggestions given in the book are backed by its RATIONAL, LOGIC and STATISTICS not on personal expertise. Khalid A Khan, worked for Global financial leaders such as Allstate Insurance and CNA in the USA, John Hancock, Manulife in Canada, after starting his career from TATA's in Jamshedpur and later worked for Citibank Singapore and Syntel. And now he wants to share his experiences, the financial mistakes he made and what he learnt from those. The biggest myth about the personal finance is “Investing is too challenging and complicated”. The truth is, investment is neither difficult nor complicated for anyone. This myth is perpetuated by all those who benefit from you having this belief. And they would want you to continue to believe it so that you continue to do business with them. My belief is, if you have the intelligence to earn, you already have what it takes to invest. The book is as useful for a salaried person as to those in self-employment, working on contracts in various sectors including Construction, IT, and also for those in Cinema and entertainment where the money comes and goes at far greater pace.

Poor Richard's Retirement: Retirement for Everyday Americans


Aaron Clarey - 2017
    Never started a 401k or IRA? Don’t worry. And are you so far behind in your personal finances you’re worried you’ll never be able to retire? It’s all good. Because whether you know it or not, the entire US retirement system is horribly flawed and was doomed to fail anyway. And that’s why every American needs to read “Poor Richard’s Retirement.” “Poor Richard’s Retirement” is a revolutionary retirement system because, unlike today’s conventional retirement planning, it works. It puts retirement easily within the reach of your everyday man. Whether you have student loans, a mortgage, are behind in your retirement planning, or have no retirement savings at all, “Poor Richard’s Retirement” bypasses it all by showing you how little you truly need to retire. And it does so through the simple truth that happiness is not found in $400 yoga pants, luxury SUV’s, McMansions, or whatever lies they’re selling you on TV, but through love of family, friends, and your fellow man. All of which are free. Make retirement infinitely easier and life happier. Buy “Poor Richard’s Retirement” today. Nobody in America has saved enough for retirement…until now.

Napoleon Hill's Success Principles Rediscovered


Napoleon Hill - 2017
    You give it to yourself first. Become a believer by taking action, and seeing the results. Then begin to share the gift with others. Napoleon Hill’s success principles are timeless, and there is a reason. Actually there are a dozen reasons—and all of them create an atmosphere and environment conducive to learning, and succeeding:He’s gentle, and his words are gentle.He’s insightful, and his principles are sound and time-tested.He’s easy to ready, understand, and apply.He’s on target with what’s wrong and what’s weak.He’s on target with how to make it right and strong.His wisdom is right on the money.His ethics ring true and genuine.He reinforces his advice with real-world examples.He encourages you to do it.He has faith that you can achieve.He warns you of outside influences that will be jealous of your endeavors.He has a track record that includes tens of millions of success stories.“I owe my positive attitude to Napoleon Hill. I realized that by adopting the fundamental Hill principles, and adapting them to my life and family, I could achieve and maintain a positive mental attitude. I became an achiever and a believer—and have never lost that belief.” -Jeffrey Gitomer, Author The Little Red Book of Selling and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude

Applied Mainline Economics: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Public Policy


Matthew D. Mitchell - 2017
    But unless those who employ these techniques also practice what the authors call “mainline” economic thinking, these new empirical methods are liable to generate more heat than light.In this book, Matthew D. Mitchell and Peter J. Boettke summarize the ideas of mainline economics. They begin with a puzzle that has vexed economists for more than 200 years: Why are some societies fabulously wealthy while others are miserably poor? They briefly survey the empirical tools that might answer this question and show that this puzzle cannot be understood without grounding the analysis in theory, suggesting that the first place to start is with mainline economic theory. Throughout the discussion, Mitchell and Boettke offer the reader examples of how these tools have helped researchers and policy analysts bridge the gap between ideas and real-world problems.

Never Enough?: 3 Keys to Financial Contentment


Ron Blue - 2017
      Money and life are inextricably linked. They don’t run on independent tracks but rather continually exist together, both of them somehow needing to be handled with steady applications of wisdom and biblical integrity, even when they seem in direct competition.   Veteran financial counselor and trusted author Ron Blue helps you navigate the seeming incompatibilities of money management. His liberating, simplifying analysis breaks down all your financial options to a basic four, then shows you how to adeptly keep them spinning alongside each other without leaving you consumed by confusion or regret—in fact, with all your dreams, plans, and principles still intact.

Why Do You Hate Money?: A Fitness Marketing Guide To Create Content That Kills, Craft Copy That Converts, And Master The Science Of Selling Without Selling Out


Joey Percia - 2017
     The truth is, most people choose a career in health and fitness because it's changed their life and they want to return the favor. But if you can’t communicate with your audience you’re going to get lost in the noise. Many people make marketing confusing, but it doesn’t have to be this way. This book makes it simple, even if you’re just starting out. In Why Do You Hate Money, former fit pro turned copywriter; Joey Percia walks you through the same proven strategies industry experts pay him thousands to implement into their businesses. The best part is, these time-tested lessons are easy to apply so you can put them to work right away. Whether you're a new personal trainer, an expert nutritionist, local box owner, a seasoned chiropractor, an experienced physical therapist, a martial arts studio owner, or in another health and fitness related field, this book will show you how to use direct response marketing to build a business you love. You’ll discover: - Four expert hacks to cure writer's block once and for all…this chapter alone will give you back hours of your life every single week - An honest and ethical approach to market your business in a way that makes you feel good but still gets you more clients. - 13 ways to spark inspiration and get your creative juices pouring out (you will LOVE #7) - The most common fitness marketing mistakes and how to avoid them… if you can avoid these 4 mistakes you’ll be blown away at how much your business will grow - How to use Kickass Copywriting to make loads of cash without being salesy - Simple storytelling strategies to boost sales and make people fall in love with you (don’t worry you don’t have to be a storytelling master) - How to write cash-generating emails like a million dollar copywriter without actually being one - Health and fitness related examples, checklists, templates, and guides to writing high converting copy which means more clients … and so much more Why Do You Hate Money’ is the go-to fitness marketing guide to create content that kills, craft copy that converts, and master the science of selling without selling out. What are you waiting for? Scroll up, and grab your copy right now.

The Future of Property Investing in Australia: Don't Risk Buying Real Estate Before You Read This Book!


Sam Saggers - 2017
    Whether you are buying real estate for the first time or the fortieth time, and whether you are just starting out in life or nearing retirement, this book will change the way you look at real estate. With a sensible and easy-to-follow approach, Sam Saggers gives you a proven path for your property investment journey. This is your ultimate guide to cracking the code for what type of property makes a great investment and what properties you should avoid. As Sam demonstrates, buying for maximum profits is a core approach to investment success, whether local or interstate, whether a pre-construction property or established, whether old or new. You will learn: • about Australia’s property plan • how globalisation is impacting on Australian real estate • how to avoid buying in the wrong areas of our cities • how to spot and purchase a bargain property • how the dawn of great property design will impact you • how to maintain your lifestyle in retirement • where to buy real estate for fast profits • how to hold real estate over the long term • how to use technological disruption to create positive cash flow investments • why the knowledge economy is changing real estate forever. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to become a successful property investor. Sam will give you the ability to buy real estate profitably and without fear.

The Mysteries of Money: Ribbonfarm: The Rust Age (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 7)


Venkatesh G. Rao - 2017
    In this collection of posts, Venkatesh Rao gamely tackles the mysteries of money, the business world, and the economy. While this volume will not make you rich quick (or slow), supply startup success recipes, or provide guidance on improving margins or setting interest rates, it should be of interest to anyone whose finance and economics curiosities extend beyond the mere making of money to the broader social realities it undergirds. Starting with a core set of essays on metaphors and mental models for money, the volume moves farther afield to the business world, startup culture, and consumer psychology, and ultimately to questions of life beyond the long, legibilizing reach of money.

Clever Girl's Guide to Living with Less: Break Free from Your Stuff, Even When Your Head and Heart Get in the Way


Kathy Vines - 2017
    I want to get rid of stuff. I need to get rid of stuff.” Instead, you run into reason after reason why you need to keep things. You’re frustrated, and you don’t know why you can’t just let go. All these reasons to hold onto things start swimming in your head: "I paid good money for this..." "But this is still good..." "I might need it some day..." And many other reasons not to let go. Clever Girl’s Guide to Living with Less brings fresh understanding to WHY you’re struggling, and strategies for HOW to break down the barriers and break free from your stuff, once and for all.

Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business Without Selling Your Soul


Jenny Kassan - 2017
    But your business needs money. So, do you max out your credit cards, borrow from friends and family, and do everything yourself? Or do you make a devil's bargain with some venture capitalist who'll demand a tenfold return and could easily take your business out from under you?No and no! You don't have to bootstrap, and you don't have to sell out! Jenny Kassan says the landscape of investment capital is far larger and more diverse than most people realize. She illuminates the vast range of capital-raising strategies available to mission-driven entrepreneurs and provides a six-step process for finding and enlisting investors who are a match with your personal goals and aspirations. The plan you create will inspire you, excite you, and help you achieve your dreams!

End Financial Stress Now: Immediate Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Financial Outlook


Emily Guy Birken - 2017
    End Financial Stress Now gives you practical, actionable instructions you need to improve your money management—no matter what your income level is. You can learn how to achieve the mindset of financial flexibility, which can help you navigate any money issues you face. These practical, step-by-step instructions on budgeting can help you track expenses, pay off debt, and save money. Featuring straightforward advice on how to increase self-discipline so you can stick to your budget as well as techniques to help you identity misinformation and false beliefs you have about money, you can follow this guide to create a fulfilling life free of financial stress.

Digital Dollars and Cents: A Virtual CFO’s Playbook to help Digital Companies Create a Financial Roadmap to Success


Jody Grunden - 2017
     What is forecasting and why do you need to do it? Learn the importance of using a forecast as a guide for every decision you make -- i.e. expansion, acquisition, buyout, retirement. What if you could pull a lever to improve your company's performance? You can! Discover the four levers (Utilization, Weekly Expectation, Standard Bill Rate and Average Bill Rate) and how they all lead to your company's Effective Rate. How do you determine and measure your pipeline? Your pipeline metric (what you currently have under contract and what you have "in the works") should not be forgotten as it can have a drastic impact on your revenue. Jody Grunden pulls from over 20 years of both public and corporate accounting experience to provide this tremendous resource for business owners. He is the co-founder and CEO at Summit CPA Group, a Virtual CFO firm that helps clients maximize profits, minimize taxes, and increase cash flow. His personable style makes it easy for readers to understand and apply the concepts to their own company, regardless of their current comfort level with the finances. About the Summit CPA Group Summit CPA Group operates under a profit-focused model, using dynamic forecasting models and key performance indicators with their clients to help them transcend their focus from simply “being in the black” to longer-term financial health and wealth. Building on their foundation, Summit CPA Group started another line of business in 2010 doing 401K Audits. Since then, the Audit team has grown to be recognized as one of the top 5% of all firms performing that type of audit (based on quantity of audits). With the mission statement, “Changing the way people think about accounting,” the next big step for the Summit CPA Group will be helping make this level of service a norm rather than an exception within other accounting firms.

How To Get Away With E-Commerce Fraud


Edoardo Fiorentini - 2017
    How to Get Away with E-Commerce Fraud is the result of that investigation, which pits Edo’s sophisticated skills against an industry which must always try to remain a step ahead of the fraudsters. Inside these pages, you will also discover: • Corporation secrets • Stories from 10 of the most known risk experts in the business • An appendix with 3 published articles on the subject

The Know-Nonsense Guide to Money: An Awesomely Fun Guide to the World of Finance!


Heidi Fiedler - 2017
    Turn each page in this book to learn a new basic concept about money, including earning, saving, spending, and borrowing, and discover the tools needed to develop good money-management habits. With a lighthearted approach, this guide turns serious and important topics into concepts that are approachable and fun for everyone. You'll love learning so much, and you might even laugh out loud!

The Father's Recipe for Personal Finance


Antoine Boyd - 2017
    They have a phenomenal new recipe to try as well as a deep conversation about personal finance as it relates to biblical principles. The father answers several questions the teenagers have regarding money management, retirement plans, debt, and a few other things that are relevant to the subject. He explains it in a very basic and godly way so that any late teen or young adult should be able to grasp. His prayer is that these principles can be passed down from generation to generation in order for his family to always be well positioned economically.

Habits Of A Millionaire Mind: Change Your Mindset, Break Bad Habits, Overcome Limiting Beliefs, And Live In Prosperity


Steven Schuster - 2017
    Therefore improving your habits has one of the greatest life-changing impacts. Learning the habits in this book might be the only difference standing between millionaires and you. Your bad habits hinder you from the life you desire. They endanger everything you value and hold dear: health, wealth, relationships, and your peace of mind. You want better habits and you want to smash bad, toxic ones. How do you do this? Habits are not unchangeable. You learned the old habits, therefore you can learn new, better habits to replace those harmful behaviors that cause you pain and unfulfillment. If you wonder how did the most successful people on Earth earn the title, this book is here to answer you. Find out what mindset mistakes are responsible for your unfulfillment and learn to act against them consciously. -Would you like to become more productive? -Would you like to deal better with the most important aspects of your life: relationships, health, and business? -Would you like to sleep with peace of mind? -Would you like to worry less and enjoy life more? -Do you crave financial freedom? Habits Of A Millionaire Mind will show you how many unexplored opportunities you have in life. Build confidence, find happiness and achieve a success you could only dream before. Don't forget - advice is only valuable as far as you implement it. Take action to adopt the habits of millionaires. -Utilize the life-changing power of habit to your complete advantage -Change your scarcity mindset into growth mindset -Rock up your financial life from paying off your debt to becoming a "real deal" -Learn to accept abundance in your life Become the best possible version of yourself. -Ditch your old, withholding habits to new, prospering ones -Learn what are the best 3 mindsets, which keep you focused, calm and attentive all the time. -Become a better person Reading this book you'll learn to think quicker and more effectively, make better decisions, and organize your financial life. Your new mindset will channel wealth, health, and abundance in your life. Your relationships will improve, your money worries will decrease.

House Arrest: A Practical Guide on How to Replace Your Income Through Property Investing


Rick Gannon - 2017
    Rick shares his property secrets that helped him leave his job as a police officer within 6 months. A value-packed book on how to start your own House In Multiple Occupation Property Business. Are you looking to replace your income? Then you need this one-stop property training book This is a "no frills" straight-talking book on how to invest in high cash-flowing property the correct way with Houses In Multiple Occupation (HMOs) It covers:- Deciding on your area Legislation Planning permission Licensing Local and national legislation Marketing Rent to Rent Lease Options Deal stacking Working with Joint Ventures How to find property without using any of your own money Refurbishment How to source tenants How to manage tenants How to systemise your business Mindset And MUCH MUCH more! If you are looking for a one-stop property book then let this be it!

The Resilience Roadmap: A Guide to Building Your Ideal Business


Danny Morel - 2017
    Even though he had to contend with a lackluster education system and lived on welfare in a single-parent home, he didn’t let any of that hold him back. He had resilience—and now you can, too. In The Resilience Roadmap, Morel shares his Seven Principles of Resiliency, which he developed after transcending his troubled youth and going through all the euphoric highs and crushing lows of twenty years in the real-estate business. The principles will give you the power to change your mind-set, the motivation you need to craft a plan and take action, and the guidance necessary to keep you on the path to success. Stop pining after the life you want, and make it happen! No matter what you’re trying to achieve, The Resilience Roadmap has the tools you need to turn your dream into a reality.

Love & Money: Protecting Yourself from Angry Exes, Con Artists, Wacky Relatives and Inner Demons


Ann-Margaret Carrozza - 2017
    What may come as a surprise, though, is that we are far more likely to be involved in a costly legal dispute with a former loved one than we are with a stranger. In Love and Money, Ann-Margaret Carrozza will help you to easily understand and implement essential legal strategies to prevent you from doing legal battle with someone you once shared Thanksgiving dinner (or a pillow) with.Through an engaging narrative, including amusing cautionary tales, readers will learn how to utilize contracts to identify and avoid costly relationship landmines, reduce pet peeves, and create a joint mission statement, all the while ensuring that one’s wealth and values are transmitted to future generations.Love and Money demystifies many legal structures, including:PrenuptialPostnuptialCohabitation agreementsLove contractsWillsTrustsPowers of attorneyHealthcare advance directivesAfter learning how to erect legal barriers against external wealth destroyers and evildoers, the focus of the book moves to internal wealth destroyers. Readers will learn how to identify and combat internal wealth repellants such as low self-esteem, fear, and stress. Becoming and remaining wealthy requires more than just money. This book provides a unique education about the interrelated nature of the internal and external laws of wealth and how to put them both to work for stronger relationships with one’s finances and loved ones.

The Science of Money: How to Increase Your Income and Become Wealthy


Brian Tracy - 2017
    Scores of books, articles, blog posts, and speeches have been written on what money is, how to earn it, how to spend it, who has it and who does not and a myriad of other topics related to the effects that it produces. Yet, despite the content focus and interest on the topic, there is one word that describes the average person's views around money: confusion. It seems that there is so much disinformation (what we might call "financial white noise") that most people either rely on chance for their fortunes they ignore the subject altogether. This is not only unnecessary, it is a tragedy because of the untapped human potential that is never uncovered when people leave their lives to chance or give up on their dreams. It's also totally unnecessary, because the topic of money - how to create it, how to invest it, and how to spend it wisely - is known. Truly there is a "science" of money, just as there is a science of nutrition, chemistry, and engineering. This "science of money" has been tested and proven again and again. And while new "theories" can arise all the time - just as we have new theories for cures for cancer or baldness, for example - the discipline of science, and it's rules for testing and verifying results - will, in short order, move these ideas from the realm of "theory" to one of two categories: The Laws of Money that have been proven and can be relied upon - as much as you can rely upon the sun rising in the East and setting in the West - the The Myths of Money - those ideas (some of which may still be around just as "rumor" or "innuendo" can exist without any basis) which claim to be true, but which have been tested and disproven, or which at best have never been decidedly proven. Ultimately, this program has one central goal: To end all of the confusion once and for all, and to present in one comprehensive program, the essential truths about money. If you simply study the ideas in this program and apply them to your life and your business, you will become financially successful - as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.

Passive Income: How to Make Money Online using Evergreen Content


Practical Psychology - 2017
    In January 2017, I earned over $15,000 from many online sources. In Passive Income Tutorial, you will learn how to make money online using blogs, Amazon, Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram utilizing Evergreen content for a steady and passive income flow. I want to give back by teaching you: -How to set up a successful Youtube channel (My Algorithm Hacks included!) -How to start and maintain your own consulting business -How to make money selling Ebooks on the Amazon kindle store -How to set up and grow a Facebook Fan page -How to set up and grow an Instagram account -How to set up a blog with Wordpress -How to utilize SEO (I teach you how to manipulate Search Engines!) -How to set up a membership website -How to set up a Subscription Box Service -How to set up a Patreon account -How to outsource and dropship your own products The book is set up into 3 parts: -My past failures -How to gain followers -How to monetize your audience You don’t have to go through where I failed, instead let me teach you every successful trick I’ve learned to jump-start your passive income. I’ve read over 100 books in the past year on marketing, home business, passive income, affiliate marketing, and tons of other monetizing methods. I’ve also been binge-reading tons of growth hacking books for social media platforms and have summarized the best methods into this book. I’ve personally used these methods myself and have seen great success in my online and financial life. In short, I now own and run a Youtube channel titled “Practical Psychology” with over 700,000 subscribers because I LOVE giving value. In this book, you’re going to get value by the truckload.

Inheritolatry: The Final Obstacle to Completing the Great Commission


James D. Wise - 2017
    Most of this wealth is currently earmarked to be passed-down to the next generation, without regard to financial responsibility or need, spiritual commitment, size of the estate or God’s intended purpose for these resources. The four biblical inheritance principles outlined in this book will encourage God’s people to align their estate plans with His wisdom and commit part of this excess wealth to completing the work of the Great Commission. Jim Wise has served in the financial services industry for thirty-three years. His professional designations include CFP (Certified Financial Planner), CAP (Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy), ChFC (Chartered Financial Consultant), CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter) and CKA (Certified Kingdom Advisor). He has served on the Board of Directors for Chesapeake Theological Seminary and Slavie Federal Savings Bank. Jim has written two books, a Bible study workbook entitled Five Steps to Financial Freedom (2003, Hensley Publishing) and Spiritual Gifts, Plain and Simple (2008, VMI Publishing).

7 Occult Money Rituals: The Keys to Authentic Financial Magick


Henry Archer - 2017
    This book contains rituals of alchemy that change your very reality and bring the money you desire. Ritual One is a rejection of personal poverty. If you’re in the depths of poverty, you begin to move away from those depths. If you’re already doing OK with money, the ritual removes the fear that poverty can ever return. Ritual Two will remove your financial desperation, to help you allow and attract a new financial future. Ritual Three removes the blockages that prevent wealth from coming to you. Ritual Four is a petition for riches, and this is a master working that helps to attract money into your life over the coming year. Ritual Five is designed to attract a specific sum of money, to solve a problem or fulfil a desire. Ritual Six increases your wages, or income from business or sales. Ritual Seven increases your luck in games of chance, including lotteries, card games and any form of gambling. The magick used in this book comes from many sources. If it works, it’s in the books. You’ll discover the six secret names of the archangel Metatron to access wealth. There are four gnostic angels that break through financial barriers and a secret pathworking technique that accesses the power of ancient gods. The book explains the source of these magickal techniques, but only in brief, so you can put your focus on getting the magick to work. The methods are safe, and you don’t need special equipment. All you need is an open mind and a willingness to work the magick as instructed. When you get money through magick, it’s one of the best feelings in the world. This book can bring you that feeling.

Make Money Blogging: Proven Strategies to Make Money Online while You Work from Home


Joseph Hogue - 2017
    I hated my job and knew I didn’t want to spend a third of my day miserable…but looking through blogging books, all I found were generic strategies and false promises.They all promised huge income but none really told me how much bloggers make or how to make money online. I said screw it and started my blogs anyway in 2014. I quit my job and spent 60+ hours a week building my sites and learning how to make money blogging. You know what, it paid off. I doubled my monthly income last year and now make more than 85% of bloggers. That’s in just two years of blogging and I make money from seven different income sources every month. Flip-flops and a T-shirt are my uniform and I’m loving it! The nine ways to make money I detail in this book helped me grow my income to over $5,000 a month. More than a work from home reference, each chapter is a step-by-step in getting started and maximizing your income from each source. Some of the strategies to make money are completely passive once you set them up. Others will take more work but can make thousands a month. The one thing they have in common...they all work! You Don’t Have 60+ Hours a Week to Learn How to Make Money Online? I didn’t start making money blogging overnight. I treated it like a business, I put everything into it and sacrificed life for months to learn how to start a blog and be successful. My pain is your gain. You don’t have to sacrifice a year of your time to start making money and work from home. I put everything I learned on my own into this book from the easiest ways to make money to the methods that make thousands a month. Making Money Blogging…and only Making Money This isn’t just another generic blogging book, covering everything from starting a blog to building traffic and then offering a side-note on a few ways to make money.You can find that anywhere. Type ‘Start a Blog’ in Google and you’ll find thousands of articles on how to setup your site but none of them tell you exactly how to make money. Believe me, I tried and had to learn the hard way. This book is 100% dedicated to giving you the tools that make money on websites. In this book you’ll learn: The proven one-year strategy for developing different income sources on your blog, from the immediate payoffs to the methods that make thousands a month (pg. 171) The complete sales funnel one blogger uses to sell his $1,000 courses and make between $30,000 to $70,000 every single month (pg. 93) How I turned my blogs into a self-publishing engine and make nearly $2,000 a month just on the books (pg. 67) How I doubled the monthly income from my blogs last year to make more than 85% of bloggers (pg. 6) How I turned a blog making less than $100 a month into a $1,000 cash machine in less than three weeks (pg. 112) I'm not promising you a get rich quick scheme or a way to make money online without doing any work. All nine of these blogging strategies take time to set up and some require continuous work on your part. Anyone that promises you online riches without the work is just trying to scam you.

Bankruptcy: A Love Story


Janet Lombardi - 2017
    Her husband, Josh, an attorney, had emptied accounts without her knowledge. Her advisor spoke bluntly to her: Get yourself a good accountant, attorney, and private eye. Bankruptcy: A Love Story, Lombardi’s debut memoir, lays bare the financial and other infidelities in her marriage. It traces the story of her family’s plunge into economic turmoil as Josh faces prosecution and prison. Set against the backdrop of September 11th, the memoir roller coasters through sexual desire, addiction, financial collapse, and squandered love. As wife and mother, Lombardi confronts her own desires and demons as she travels the road to survival and navigates questions of love and redemption. Bankruptcy: A Love Story adds a human face to the headlines and statistics about sub-prime mortgages and debt-financed living. In 2010, home foreclosures in the United States reached an all-time high with more than one million people losing their homes. Americans have suffered the effects of these tough economic times, but few have captured the frightening ride in such detail. Bankruptcy: A Love Story takes the reader down the well and back up into the light. Ultimately, that road back is lined with painful choices, desperate moves, and the knowledge that letting go provides the only real answer. “Riveting!” - Sarah Hepola, New York Times bestselling author of Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget “Janet Lombardi's debut memoir Bankruptcy is a poignant, brave, and compelling story of lost money, marital heartbreak, and healing.” - Susan Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Unhooked, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and What’s Never Said "Bankruptcy is an intriguing story of a shocking loss that could happen to anyone. The writing is riveting! It kept me up half the night." - Jan Phillips, author, Creativity Unzipped “Bankruptcy: A Love Story, rich in sensory details, captivates the reader from the first page to the end. Lombardi’s voice is authentic, her story is heart-wrenching. We learn what it feels like to be betrayed and yet to still love the betrayer. More than a coming of age story, it is “a coming of self” story. A memoirist wants to understand who she was in the past and who she is today. Janet Lombardi has succeeded, and in so doing she has opened doors to self-discovery for those who have the good fortune to read her fascinating memoir.” - Susan Tiberghien, author, One Year to a Writing Life “In her beautifully written debut memoir, Bankruptcy: A Love Story, Janet Lombardi captivates us with her personal triumph over deceit and financial infidelity. Lombardi truly gives meaning to perseverance in the face of adversity. This is one book that will leave you feeling inspired and able to overcome whatever life throws in front of you.” - Lori Bizzoco, Executive Editor of CupidsPulse.com “Set between the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the collapse of the mortgage market seven years later, Bankruptcy: A Love Story tells the harrowing, true story of a marriage careening between devotion and desperation. Offering an intimate view of the corrosive effects of addiction and codependence, Lombardi's memoir is more than the saga of one woman’s stunning descent into financial and emotional ruin. It’s a story of discovering that the one true love is love of yourself.” - Desiree Cooper, author, Know the Mother

Common Cents: How to Live a Happy Life Without Money? It's Simple, Just Live!


Netiera Danise - 2017
    It teaches you how to center your life on things that actually make a difference; like feeling alive, manifesting your dreams, gaining self-love and building relationships. Society molds you to believe that you have to have materialistic substance in order to value life. Well, Common Cents says otherwise. Common Cents says you can live a happy life without money you just have to start LIVING!

Soft Corruption: How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It


William E. Schluter - 2017
    In Soft Corruption, a former state senator recounts his fifty-year fight to expose such misconduct. William E. Schluter doesn’t simply wade through New Jersey’s muck, but provides concrete suggestions for how our political system might be reformed and how citizens can effect that change.

Give the Best Away: The Remarkable Story of Rosemary Lancaster, MBE


Rosemary Lancaster - 2017
    

History of the Black Dollar


Angel Rich - 2017
    This book aims to help older generations remember, while enlightening younger generations on the progression of America and its direct correlation to the support of Black Americans that will inspire both groups to continuing uplifting economic social justice.

Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff


Bill Maurer - 2017
    But what about the debris, the things that allow a transaction to take place and are left in its wake? How would a museum go about curating our scrawls on electronic keypads, the receipts wadded in our wallets, that vast information infrastructure that runs the card networks? This book is a catalog for a museum exhibition that never happened. It offers a series of short essays, paired with striking images, on these often ephemeral, invisible, or unnoticed transactional objects—money stuff.Although we've been told for years that we're heading toward total cashlessness, payment is increasingly dependent on things. Consider, for example, the dongle, a clever gizmo that processes card payments by turning information from a card's magnetic stripe into audio information that can be read by a smart phone's headphone jack. Or dogecoin, a meme of a smiling, bewildered dog's interior monologue that fueled a virtual currency similar to Bitcoin. Or go further back and contemplate the paper currency printed with leaves by Benjamin Franklin to foil counterfeiters, or khipu, Incan records kept in knotted string.Paid's authors describe these payment-adjacent objects so engagingly that for a moment, financial leftovers seem more interesting than finance. Paid encourages us to take a moment to look at the nuts and bolts of our everyday transactions by looking at the stuff that surrounds them.

Building Your Financial Future from the Present


Andreina Maneiro - 2017
    Usually it was used to refer to a person more than 55 year of age, but times have changed, and we are now facing a new age where we can balance lifestyles, manage time to our favor, and be more efficient by investing on what is important � as I always say, keep the main thing (THE MAIN THING), connect more with your purpose in life, with what you want to experience and live. For great experiences, and usually for a creative bucket list, it is important to have control of your finances, and create a plan for learning instruments already in existence, with which you can make the most of every dollar you earn. The intention of this book is to start with a guide to the different names that have been given to plans, to understand their differences, and guide you into making the best decisions. Here we go�..Enjoy the ride

Buy It, Rent It, Profit!: Make Money as a Landlord in Any Real Estate Market


Bryan M. Chavis - 2017
    But where does one begin? With more than twenty-plus years of experience in real estate and as the founder of The Landlord Property Management Academy, Bryan M. Chavis knows all phases and aspects of working with rental properties. In Buy It, Rent It, Profit! he explains why rental properties are such a wise investment in today's real estate world and outlines the steps and systems you need to implement to become a successful landlord and property manager. This updated edition of the modern classic includes advice on being a profitable and professional landlord, protecting your investment, learning what types of property you should be purchasing, and adapting to the ever-changing world of technology in real estate. Chavis also provides systems on how to attract quality tenants, negotiate lease agreements, collect rent, finance a mortgage, and manage the property overall-everything you need to become a smart, profitable, and professional property manager.

Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World


Thomas Hylland Eriksen - 2017
    This collection explores the question of identity in this new world, looking at the consequences of rapidly accelerating change on social and personal identities and providing a concrete set of perspectives on how people conceive their selves and belonging in the twenty-first century. Featuring examinations of the Phiippines, Israel, Australia, the Cape Verde Islands, and Afghanistan, the book studies changes generated by rapid industrialization, forced return of migrants, sudden population growth, and the touristification of local cultures.