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Standard and Poors Guide to Money and Investing Standard and Poor

Standard and Poors Guide to Money and Investing Standard and Poor

An all-new personal finance guide from the authors/creators of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing

. First in a new series based on information from Standard And Poor�s�the leading financial information organization�Standard And Poor�s Guide to Money And Investing demystifies the world of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, and options, empowering you to make informed investment decisions, measure your performance, and evaluate the risks and rewards. Completely up-to-date to reflect significant changes in investing due to new technologies and the Internet, this concise, easy-to-read guide explains how to understand the markets, evaluate companies, and spot trends to invest for success. Also covered are forces driving the economy and the roles of institutions from the Federal Reserve to multinational banks to the stock exchanges.

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5 Stars A Book For Success
Excellent book to learn financial investment guidelines. Anyone should understand the basics shown here. Highly recommended.

4 Stars The Market for almost dummies
Great book, I highly recommend it. It makes sense of a very confusing topic and actually holds your attention considering the dry nature of the market system.

It’s a good book for people like me that have no experience working/dealing with the market/stocks/bonds/ect. I wish it was a little more clear on some things and I wish it went into a little more detail sometimes, but I think this is a good first read, it was highly recommended to me by many financial savvy people.

5 Stars Exactly what I was looking for!
For years I had heard all the buzz words and wondered what they meant. In a very easy language to read and understand, these book answered all my questions. I highly recmmend it!

5 Stars Great Compact Guide
This book is very helpful for gaining an understanding of investing. The layout is clear and interesting, and there is a lot of useful information packed into this small guide!

5 Stars The very best !!!
As a financial advisor I’ve read a lot of books about investing; Recently my little brother asked me for a book to get started. This is the one I truly recommend above all the rest. A truly professional yet simple read.

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Ideas Into Dollars Made E Z

Ideas Into Dollars Made E Z

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Standard Deviants School Accounting Program 1 The Basics Classroom Edition

Standard Deviants School Accounting Program 1 The Basics Classroom Edition

The Standard Deviants introduce you to the basics of accounting, including GAAP - the generally accepted accounting principles. You’ll learn about owners? equity, the three types of business organizations, the five types of accounts, and three types of financial statements.

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1 Star Is this a joke? God I hoped it was!
This DVD series is so disappointed. I could not believe my eyes when I put this piece of garbage in my DVD player. It’s a very annoying DVD. It’s almost $30 and it’s only 26 minutes.

They try to make the subject funny, but with only 26 minutes of run time there is not much teaching just comedy. The beginning is very annoying, you can’t skip it and there is no menu.

It looks like a DVD my grandma would create and she is 85 years old. Horrible, horrible DVD.

The only good thing….I’ll get back to you when I find one.

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Rich Dads Prophecy Why The Biggest Stock Market Crash in History is Still Coming and How You Can Prepare Yourself and Profit From It

Rich Dads Prophecy Why The Biggest Stock Market Crash in History is Still Coming and How You Can Prepare Yourself and Profit From It

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the Rich Dad Poor Dad series deliver a financial plan to help Baby Boomers survive an impending economic crash. Anyone with a 401K knows that investing in mutual funds is not safe, or so claim Kiyosaki and Lechter. Even worse, they warn that a devastating economic crash is imminent because Baby Boomers will soon be required by law to drain trillions of dollars stashed in 401Ks, IRAs, SEPs, and other mutual-fund savings accounts as they start to retire. In short, the country’s financial system won’t withstand the drain, and relying on a 401K and Social Security will mean financial disaster. Here, Kiyosaki and Lechter provide a financial roadmap for readers to prosper during these troubled times.

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5 Stars Kiyosaki’s Advice Right On the money!
The big bull market.

In the 1980’s, some wise investors warned of a coming crash. Unfortunately, many disregarded this warning and got nailed in October 1987.

During the 90’s, again some were warning about a “bubble”, “markets had gone up too far”, “some dot.com stocks had taken the “e” out of “p/e” were without earnings.”

Nonetheless, some people chose not to listen and got burned again by the biggest stock market crash (so far) in history.

Robert Kiyosaki, despite the erroneous comments by some reviewers who obviously didn’t even read the book, is not just advocating real estate. He also advocates stock market investing, hedgeing and other strategies. Kiyosaki did say that there would be a boomin the markets and this was at a time when the bear market was at it’s peak. Many of us will recall back in 2002 when this book came out how widely critized Kiyosaki was for suggesting that the markets would rebound. But what happened in 2003 through 2006?

I am not in any way associated with Robert Kiyosaki. For my money, markets go down and markets go up again. President Bush’s tax plan did work to stimulate the economy and the stock market, regertably other economic factors weighed down in 2007, 2008 and still continuing on in 2009.

Many of us (accurately) predicted a spike int he the stock market in 2002 and going forward as did Kiyosaki and then another March 2000-like selloff coming at the end of the decade (and it happened starting in 2007)interspersed with bullish and bearish type markets like we saw in 1994 and 1998.

For those who say that Kiyosaki called it wrong, the selloff came early, guess again. Kiyosaki indicated that the markets would go down as the baby boomers began to retire. Those “baby-boomers” were born between the years of 1946-1964. The real carnage has not even happened yet. Wait until 2016.

I know people in their 70’s who had been retired and now are thinking of going back to work at a 7-11 store or Wal Mart because their retirement rest egg is slipping away.

Then when babyboomers retire…..??? Will you be prepared for that, er, unlike those who were not prepared in March 2000 or October 1987, or 1929 or 2008-2009??

Kiyosaki was right. His advice is right on the barrelhead.

5 Stars eye-opener on how current retirement laws may affect everyone’s investments…
Current laws would require retirees to start withdrawing from their retirement accounts at age 70-and-a-half whether they want to or not…? I never realized how this may possibly cause a selling cascade in the stock market (as there would be around 75 million baby-boomers affected assuming that many of them may have investments). It appears we may (hopefully) have a few years to prepare for this possibility.

4 Stars No Issues Good Product
Book was delivered quickly. No issues with product or delivery. Be more conscious of condition description, I would have rated it fair/good. Thank you! I will be ordering from you in the future.

1 Star Garbage!
“Rich Dad’s Prophecy” predicts a market crash around 2016 when the oldest Baby Boomers start cashing out their 401(k) plans and stop contributing. Solution: Invest in real estate rental properties instead. (Comment: The market crash came 8 years early, and occured for different reasons. Rental properties have also crashed.)

Kiyosaki, however, ignores the difficulty of finding positive cash-flow rental properties (doing so almost forces one to use dangerous ARMs, interest-only loans), evaluating potential purchases for hidden problems (eg. leaky roofs), and cost-effective maintenance of properties. I also don’t think much of his characterization of one’s home as a liability instead of an asset - it appreciated (until recently). Finally, his book is highly repetitive and becomes boring.

Bottom Line: I didn’t take Kiyosaki’s advice earlier, and am glad I didn’t.

4 Stars You ignore this at your own peril
In his latest book “Prophecy”, Robert T. Kiyosaki predicts a major stock market crash in the near future. This, he says, is a result of the baby boomers (mostly) saving for their retirement via stock investments and given that a large number of them will retire from 2016 onwards their investments will have to be cashed in as it will be needed and as a result the market will fall if not crash. Apart from that, RK says, that most baby boomers may not actually see their money ever again as more often than not most of it is invested in their own companies, i.e., the ones they work for, and if their employer goes down the drain so will their funds saved for retirement. Kiyosaki uses the demise of Enron as an example to demonstrate this.

Granted, there is nothing really new about all this. If you have spent any time working in the financial field you would know about this - although over the years I felt that people tend to stick their heads in the sand and hope that this will not happen or somehow go away

Apart from complaining about the existing system and the financial illiteracy of the vast majority of the market participants (and that would appear to be the main problem), Kiyosaki in Part II of the book sets out a game plan on how to build your own financial ark.

What I like about Kiyosaki’s book is that he is pointing his finger straight at what could potentially happen and he does it in rather convincing style. There is indeed a good deal of information here that Kiyosaki has mentioned in his previous books, but I am not terribly upset about this as it serves to reinforce the message. Besides, if you haven’t read any of the previous Kioysaki books, you would be stuck in the middle of nowhere if Kiyosaki left out the previously published information.

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