Recommended business books about personal financing and investing.
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust by John Coates A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist reveals the biology of boom and bust and how risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior or stress and depression. Catalog Link |
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The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing: Finding Value, Generating Absolute Returns, and Controlling Risk in Turbulent Markets (Little Books. Big Profits) by John Mauldin Focuses on Mauldin’s key observations including The Muddle Through Economy, Taking Stock (or Bonds or Hedge Funds), and focusing on other investments to adjust to what the author believes is the new reality. Catalog Link |
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Survival Investing: How to Prosper Amid Thieving Banks and Corrupt Governments by John R. Talbott Finance guru Talbott shows how the recent housing collapse and global economic crisis left governments of the world with enormous annual operating deficits. Catalog Link |
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The Aftershock Investor: A Crash Course in Staying Afloat in a Sinking Economy by David Wiedemer,Robert A. Wiedemer,Cindy S. Spitzer Advice on protection and profits in the short and long term future from the experts who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008, and who now have more information about what is yet to come. Catalog Link |
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Worth It ... Not Worth It?: Simple & Profitable Answers to Life's Tough Financial Questions by Jack Otter Demystifies complex, real-world dilemmas and breaks the answers down into simple, Do This/Not That solutions. Organized around six basic topics: Getting Started, Shelter, Automotive, Investing, Family Matters, and Retirement. Catalog Link |
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All the Money in the World: What the Happiest People Know About Getting and Spending by Laura Vanderkam VanderKam explores the ways in which thinking more cogently about money’s role in our lives can bring us peace, and asks: if you had all the money in the world, not literally, but all you wanted what would you change about your life? Catalog Link |
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The Executor's Guide: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust by Mary Randolph J.D. This guide will help you navigate the land of legal procedures. Contains tables outlining key points of each state’s laws, information on estate taxes and worksheets to keep you on track. Catalog Link |
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Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con by Guy Lawson This real-life thriller tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for a “secret market” beneath the financial market we all know. Catalog Link |