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J K Lasser Your Income Tax 2013
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ISBN: 111834670X, Paperback- $15.25 BUY
For over half a century, more than 39 million Americans have turned to J.K. Lasser for easy-to-follow, expert advice and guidance on planning and filing their taxes. Written by a team of tax specialists, J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013 includes all the outstanding features that have made this book the nation's all-time top-selling tax guide. It covers some of the most important topics associated with your taxes, from what must you report as income and strategies that will save you on taxes to how much tax you actually owe and what deductions can you claim.
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Clark Howard's Living Large in Lean Times: 250+ Ways to Buy Smarter, Spend Smarter, and Save Money
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by Clark Howard
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ISBN: 1583334335, Paperback- $10.85 BUY
Living Large in Lean Times is Clark's ultimate guide to saving money, covering everything from cell phones to student loans, coupon websites to mortgages, investing to electric bills, and beyond. In his candid and friendly next-door-neighbor manner, Clark shares the small, manageable steps everyone can follow to build a path towards independence and wealth.
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The Road to Wealth Revised
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by Suze Orman
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ISBN: 1594484589, Paperback- $ BUY
Millions of readers have embraced Suze Orman's New York Times bestselling The Road to Wealth since it was originally published in 2001. But the world has changed vastly since then, and it's more important than ever for readers to have access to accurate and practical answers to every question they have about their financial futures-questions Suze answers in The Road to Wealth. Compassionate, straightforward, and easy to understand, this updated edition gives readers invaluable advice about:
- Credit cards and the new bankruptcy laws
- FICO scores
- Changes in student financial aid
- Changes in the real estate market and mortgages
- Stocks and bonds
- The latest retirement investment strategies, including the new Roth 401(k)
- Mutual funds and annuities
- Wills and trusts
- Social Security
- Life insurance
- Disability and long-term care insurance
- Identity theft (and what to do if you're a victim of it)
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The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
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by Dave Ramsey
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ISBN: 159555078X, Hardcover- $ BUY
Dave condenses his 17 years of financial teaching and counseling into 7 organized, easy-to-follow steps that will lead you out of debt and into a Total Money Makeover. Plus, you?ll read over 50 real-life stories from people just like you who have followed these principles and are now winning with their money. It is a plan designed for everyone, regardless of income or age.
With The Total Money Makeover, you'll be able to:
Design a sure-fire plan for paying off ALL debt
Recognize the 10 most dangerous money myths
Secure a big, fat nest egg for emergencies and retirement
Positively change your life and your family tree!
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The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
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by Andrew Tobias
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ISBN: 0547447256, Paperback- $ BUY
You've probably got the original it was a million-copy best seller, so here's his newly revised 2011 version covering new laws and the joys of the Internet. This investment bible remains as stimulating and meaningful as it was when it was first published. It's packed with ideas about stocks, living beneath your means, tax planning, retirement, and just about everything else in the financial world. And all of it is presented with Tobias's trademark brevity and ingenuity.
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The Millionaire Next Door: Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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by Thomas Stanley & William Danko
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ISBN: 1589795474, Paperback- $ BUY
How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers--particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling.
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)
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by Benjamin Graham
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ISBN: 0060555661, Paperback- $ BUY
Among the library of investment books promising no-fail strategies for riches, Benjamin Graham's classic, The Intelligent Investor, offers no guarantees or gimmicks but overflows with the wisdom at the core of all good portfolio management. The hallmark of Graham's philosophy is not profit maximization but loss minimization. In this respect, The Intelligent Investor is a book for true investors, not speculators or day traders. He provides, "in a form suitable for the laymen, guidance in adoption and execution of an investment policy" (1). This policy is inherently for the longer term and requires a commitment of effort. Where the speculator follows market trends, the investor uses discipline, research, and his analytical ability to make unpopular but sound investments in bargains relative to current asset value. Graham coaches the investor to develop a rational plan for buying stocks and bonds, and he argues that this plan must be a bulwark against emotional behavior that will always be tempting during abrupt bull and bear markets. Since it was first published in 1949, Graham's investment guide has sold over a million copies and has been praised by such luminaries as Warren E. Buffet as "the best book on investing ever written."
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
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ISBN: 0060731338, Paperback- $ BUY
Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet
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When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
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by Mohamed El-Erian
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ISBN: 0071592814, Hardcover- $ BUY
When Markets Collide is a timely alert to the fundamental changes taking place in today's global economic and financial systems--and a call to action for investors who may fall victim to misinterpreting important signals. While some have tended to view asset class mispricings as mere ?noise,? this compelling book shows why they are important signals of opportunities and risks that will shape the market for years to come. One of today's most respected names in finance, Mohamed El-Erian puts recent events in their proper context, giving you the tools that can help you interpret the markets, benefit from global economic change, and navigate the risks.
El-Erian, who describes America?s economic future with the term "new normal" advocated the strategy he applied at Harvard on returning to investment powerhouse Pimco in January 2008. Pimco, which manages about $1.1 trillion, recently opened its first El-Erian fund aimed at minimizing risks from systemic shocks - called "Black Swan" events (see next book on our list by Nicholas Taleb).
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:
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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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ISBN: 081297381X, Paperback- $ BUY
Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating book, The Black Swan, in which he examines the influence of highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact. Engaging and enlightening, The Black Swan is a book that may change the way you think about the world, a book that Chris Anderson calls, "a delightful romp through history, economics, and the frailties of human nature."
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Don't Count on It!
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by John C Bogle & Allan S Blinder
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ISBN: 047064396X, Paperback- $ BUY
Insights into investing and leadership from the founder of The Vanguard Group. Throughout his legendary career, John Bogle-founder of the Vanguard mutual fund group and creator of the first index mutual fund-has helped investors build wealth the right way, while, at the same time, leading a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. Widely acclaimed for his role as the conscience of the mutual fund industry and a relentless advocate for individual investors, in Don't Count on It, Bogle continues to inspire, while pushing the mutual fund industry to measure up to their promise.
Praise for Don't Count On It:
"Jack Bogle is one of the most lucid men in finance."
?NASSIM N.TALEB, PhD, author of The Black Swan
"It was not an easy sell. The joke at first was that only finance professors invested in Vanguard's original index fund. But what a triumph it has been. And what a focused and passionate drive it took: it is a zero-sum game and only costs are certain. Thank you, Jack."
?JEREMY GRANTHAM, Cofounder and Chairman, GMO
"On finance, Jack Bogle thinks unconventionally. So, this sound rebel turns out to be right most of the time. Meanwhile, many of us sometimes engage in self-deception. So, this book will set us straight. And in the last few pages, Jack writes, and I agree, that Peter Bernstein was a giant. So is Jack Bogle."
?JEAN-MARIE EVEILLARD, Senior Adviser, First Eagle Investment Management
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The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times
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by Jean Chatzky
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ISBN: 0307407144, Paperback- $ BUY
Trusted financial coach Jean Chatzky shares the secrets her groundbreaking research of the self-made wealthy has uncovered so that anyone can break through the barriers that stand between them and true financial freedom. Find out why it?s important to:
? Get happy, but not too happy
? Do what you love, but don?t quit your day job
? Read every day
? Remember that failure is not an option?it?s a necessity
? Harness your intuition to take risks that make sense
? Practice the Kevin Bacon Principle?make connections
? Say thank you?and mean it
? Make your money work as hard as you do
Through candid interviews and a study of more than five thousand people, Jean reveals the traits and habits of those who have moved from the lowest economic strata to the highest. The Difference helps you take a look at where you are now and offers simple strategies for going where you want to go. The Difference, you?ll see, is within you: You have the power to determine your financial future and achieve the next level of wealth.
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