Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Nontraditional Investments That Drive the World's Best-Performing Portfolios





The first book to explain the new world of alternative investing, showing how anyone can use nontraditional options to significantly increase returns and lower risks

The world's elite investors have long relied on alternative investments to produce superior returns. Until now, these strategies were the exclusive purview of institutions and the superwealthy, but today any informed investor can play the same game.

A rainbow of investment options--timber, start-ups, master limited partnerships (MLPs), hedged strategies, managed futures, infrastructure, peer-to-peer lending, farmland, and dozens of other nontraditional strategies--can provide dramatically better gains, with less total risk, than the standard choices. In The Alternative Answer, Bob Rice, Bloomberg TV's Alternative Investments Editor, leads an entertaining and easy- to-understand tour of this world, and suggests specific alternative investments for all four key "jobs" of a portfolio: safely generating more current income, decreasing risks of economic shocks, significantly increasing long-term profits, and protecting purchasing power over time.

Regardless of experience or net worth, readers will learn exactly how to substantially improve investment performance--in the same way that the world's best investors already do. Stocks and bonds alone aren't nearly enough. Investors need an alternative answer and now they have it.

The Alternative Answer

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do about It

The United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today's workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility haveshifted from government and employers to individuals. For this reason, Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth have written this concise guide for anyone concerned about their own - and the nation's - retirement security.Falling Short is grounded in sound research yet written in a highly accessible style. The authors provide a vivid picture of the retirement crisis in America. They offer the necessary context for understanding the nature and size of the retirement income shortfall, which is caused by both increasingincome needs-due to longer lifespans and rising health costs - and decreasing support from Social Security and employer-sponsored pension plans.The solutions are to work longer and save more by building on the existing retirement system. To work longer, individuals should plan to stay in the labor force until age 70 if possible. To save more, policymakers should shore up Social Security's long-term finances; make all 401(k) plans fullyautomatic, with workers allowed to opt out; and ensure that everyone has access to a retirement savings plan. Individuals should also recognize that their house is a source of saving, which they can tap in retirement through downsizing or a reverse mortgage.

Falling Short

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11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom

Many Americans view Wall Street as a bastion of greed and corruption; a place that attracts people who don't deserve the money they make but are willing to break the law to get more of it. Yet for all their mistrust, many of these same Americans believe that Wall Street is essential for our economy to function. How do we fix it? Send in the Marines.

Known for its exemplary discipline, the Marine Corps ensures victory by obeying key commands, such as: establish clear, tactical objectives; know the terrain before heading into battle; identify and capitalize on combat advantages; control timing; leverage complementary skills within the unit; negotiate from a morally defensible position; harness strength of leadership to craft a bulletproof plan. Ken Marlin served ten years' active duty as a Marine officer before taking on the financial sector. He's seen this program of pride, professionalism, and fidelity work - from the battlefield to the boardroom.

Marlin is no socialist: he's a capitalist and risk-taker who enjoys earning money for himself and his clients. InThe Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street, he teaches you the Marine Corps way to win on Wall Street and on Main Street: to sacrifice short-term gains for the long-term interests of your clients and your company. Deploying Marine-tested tactics, he engineers lasting, honorable success while lowering the ethical cost of doing business. That's the Marine Corps way.

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

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Janet Tavakoli

What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 years, they both saw the writing on the wall, made clear by the implosion of Bear Stearns. Tavakoli, in clear and engaging prose, explains how the credit mess happened beginning with the mortgage lending Ponzi schemes funded by investment banks, the Fed bailout and its impact on the dollar. Through her narrative, we hear from Warren Buffett and learn how his enduring principles caused him to see the mess that was coming well in advance and kept him and his investors well out of the way.

Dear Mr. Buffett

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Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits

Becoming a young Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money-- as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers. YOUNG MONEY Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits YOUNG MONEY is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer and author of the critically acclaimed The Unlikely Disciple, spent more than three years shadowing eight entry-level workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and other leading investment firms. Roose chronicled their triumphs and disappointments, their million-dollar trades and runaway Excel spreadsheets, and got an unprecedented (and unauthorized) glimpse of the financial world's initiation process. Roose's young bankers are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bonuses, and recreational drugs that have always characterized Wall Street life. But they experience something new, too: an industry forever changed by the massive financial collapse of 2008. And as they get their Wall Street educations, they face hard questions about morality, prestige, and the value of their work. YOUNG MONEY is more than an exposé of excess; it's the story of how the financial crisis changed a generation-and remade Wall Street from the bottom up.

Young Money

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Passion and Property in Manhattan

An investigation into the secretive world of Manhattan luxury real estate offers insight into the workings of carriage-trade brokers, co-op boards, and the homes of such figures as Jerry Seinfeld, Barbra Streisand, and Tommy Hilfiger.

The Sky's the Limit

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Loral Langemeier

Build Your Assets into a Lifetime of Financial Freedom

A guide to personal investments includes worksheets to organize assets, along with information on investing in a wide range of asset classes through direct asset allocation.

The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing

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Investing Your Inner Wealth for Fulfillment and Abundance

Soul Currency 

James J. Cramer

Cliff Mason

Audiobook, CDs - Unopened, in original packaging

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)

Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life (Audiobook)

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Texas

The Book of  Money 

Gene G. Marcial

Marcial introduces seven effective, money making, counterintuitive strategies, gleaned from his 25 years of experience. He offers insights into picking and analyzing stocks that contradict widely held myths in the market so that investors can make more profitable investing decisions.

Gene Marcial's 7 Commandments of Stock Investing

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Robert Barbera

A Street economist's strategy for managing market madness “A punchy and relevant book on our present distress that has, at its core, one very big and useful idea.“ Portfolio “Heeding the lessons of the last few years, as documented in this book, may help both financiers and government policy makers find ways to reduce some future costs of capitalism without sacrificing all the potential rewards.” The New York Times “[Barbera] challenges the blind faith in free markets.” The Economist “Barbera ... [is] one of the few commentators actually saying something interesting and innovative about the crisis.” Asia Times "The Cost of Capitalism is a must-read and a thoroughly enjoyable one—for those who want to understand the Crisis of 2008 and hammer out a new framework for decision making." Jared L. Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University "Readers who absorb the lessons of this book will be armed with more than mere technique; they will acquire an attitude that will make them better investors for the rest of their lives." Paul DeRosa, Principal, Mt. Lucas Management Corp. "The Cost of Capitalism translates the economic diagnoses and theories of my father, Hyman Minsky. It captures the vivacity of a post dinner conversation not coincidentally my father's favorite forum for elaborating, educating, and entertaining." Diana Minsky, Art Historian, Bard College "Lucid, intriguing, brilliant! Barbera combines the uncertainty and speculation of Keynes with Schumpeter's "Creative Destruction" and Hy Minsky's "Deflationary Destruction" into a tasty stew." James R. Schlesinger, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency "Long ago, Bob taught me that if you don't know Minsky, you don't know nothing. This work shows the path out of nothingness." Paul A. McCulley, Chief Investment Officer, Pacific Investment Management Company "Barbera's recommendations are profound in their simplicity. Let us hope Wall Street, Main Street, Washington, and academia embrace them." Jack Rivkin, former Chief Investment Officer, Neuberger Berman "This is truly an extraordinary book that should be of great interest to an extremely wide audience from Wall Street practitioners to economics and finance scholars." Louis Maccini, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University From the panic of 1987 to the tech-bubble burst of 2000, the past two decades have witnessed a series of financial crises, each more disruptive than the last. Unfortunately, they all seem like dress rehearsal for today's debacle. In hindsight, the precipitating factors responsible for each crisis seem clear, yet, in every case, mainstream economists and policy makers were caught off guard. Why didn't they see it coming? What should they have known but didn't? And, most critically, how must they adjust their thinking going forward? In the Cost of Capitalism, Robert Barbera provides compelling answers to all these questions. In the process, he offers the most cogent analysis yet of today's crisis and explains how to manage the ever present potential for mayhem intrinsic to free market economies without stunting innovation and growth. At the core of Barbera's thinking are three assumptions: first, boom and bust cycles have been stoked since 1985 by finance, not inflation; second, Main Street stability paradoxically invites excessive risk taking on Wall Street; and last, these things set the stage for small setbacks to deliver cataclysmic consequences. Barbera applauds current efforts to unabashedly infuse public money into the global economy. It's the only way, he says, to prevent another Great Depression. And, looking beyond the crisis of the moment, Barbera contends that mainstream thinkers need to form a new economic paradigm by embracing the insights of free market champions like Joseph Schumpeter and the cautionary wisdom of Hyman Minsky. Financial market mayhem comes with the territory in a free market system. Nonetheless, innovators and their bankers still offer the world the best chance for a prosperous twenty-first century. Economists, policymakers, and investors must begin to redefine their understanding of free market capitalism. The Cost of Capitalism will set them on that course.

The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing Our Economic Future

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Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments

On the heels of the most recent economic crisis, America is headed towards another - high inflation and dollar devaluation. The signs are clear: federal debt is compounding while growth has stalled and America's foreign creditors are questioning the dollar's reserve currency status. The good news, according to Charles Goyette, is that those who are prepared can protect themselves and even profit in this new era. Drawing on historical examples, he explains the importance of gold, silver and other alternative investments.

The Dollar Meltdown

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How to Maximize Your Competitive Position and Increase Your Pricing Power

Commoditization-a virulent form of hypercompetition-is destroying markets, disrupting industries, and shuttering long-successful firms. Conventional wisdom says the best way to combat commoditization is differentiation. But differentiation is difficult and expensive to implement, and keeps you ahead of the pack only temporarily.

In Beating the Commodity Trap, Richard D'Aveni provides a radical new framework for fighting back. Drawing on an in-depth study of more than thirty industries, he recommends first identifying the commoditization trap you're facing:

-Deterioration: Low-end firms enter with low-cost/low-benefit offerings that attract the mass market-as Zara did to high-end fashion companies.

-Proliferation: Companies develop new combinations of price paired with several unique benefits that attack part of an incumbents' market-as Japanese motorcycle makers did to Harley-Davidson.

-Escalation: Players offer more benefits for the same or lower price, squeezing everyone's margins-as the iPhone did in mobile devices.

The author provides a tool for diagnosing your competitive position and shows how to strengthen it while also boosting your pricing power-by destroying the commoditization trap confronting you, escaping it, or turning it to your advantage.

Illustrated with a wealth of examples, this concise, practical guide gives you the framework and tactics you need to battle commoditization.

Beating the Commodity Trap

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2 for one bundle. Keys to smart investing and how to make more money from skills and hobbies. 

California

Keys to Smart Investing

Money Secrets provides a front row seat to what the financial industry doesn't want you to know about investing, from an insider who believes you deserve the truth. It is a common-sense approach to planning and investing wisely.

Bundle: Money Secrets/Put More Cash in Your Pocket.

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Michele Cagan

Connecticut

From Stocks and Bonds to ETFs and IPOs, an Essential Primer on Building a Profitable Portfolio

A crash course in managing personal wealth and building a profitable portfolio--from stocks and bonds to IPOs and more!

Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of investing into tedious discourse that would put even Warren Buffett to sleep. Investing 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you learn how to build a portfolio and expand your savings. From value investing to short selling to risk tolerance, this primer is packed with hundreds of entertaining tidbits and concepts that you won't be able to get anywhere else.

So whether you're looking to master the major principles of investing, or just want to learn more about stocks and bonds, Investing 101 has all the answers--even the ones you didn't know you were looking for.

Investing 101

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Louisiana

Watch TV, Get Rich

The author offers advice on how to act on his stock recommendations as delivered through his television and radio shows, in a resource that covers such topics as researching a stock and knowing the best time to sell.

Jim Cramer's Mad Money

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Mad Money

Arizona

Learn to Manage Your Money and Protect Your Financial Future

Explains the basics of investing and offers guidance in making the five informed decisions leading to a successful investment experience at any level.

The Investment Answer

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Mary Rowland

In an accessible, step-by-step format, Mary Rowland explains how to get the most out of a 401(k) and use it as the basis of a lifetime of financial planning.

A Commonsense Guide to Your 401(k)

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Larry Swedroe

Pennsylvania

One of today's leading figures in the field gives busy investors a quick-access guide to step their investing up to new levels of profitability

Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett: the Winning Strategy to Help You Achieve Your Financial and Life Goals

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Joel Greenblatt

Andrew Tobias

Maryland

In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market—a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print—Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market averages by simply and systematically applying a formula that seeks out good businesses when they are available at bargain prices. Now, with a new Introduction and Afterword for 2010, The Little Book that Still Beats the Market updates and expands upon the research findings from the original book. Included are data and analysis covering the recent financial crisis and model performance through the end of 2009. In a straightforward and accessible style, the book explores the basic principles of successful stock market investing and then reveals the author’s time-tested formula that makes buying above average companies at below average prices automatic. Though the formula has been extensively tested and is a breakthrough in the academic and professional world, Greenblatt explains it using 6th grade math, plain language and humor. He shows how to use his method to beat both the market and professional managers by a wide margin. You’ll also learn why success eludes almost all individual and professional investors, and why the formula will continue to work even after everyone “knows” it. While the formula may be simple, understanding why the formula works is the true key to success for investors. The book will take readers on a step-by-step journey so that they can learn the principles of value investing in a way that will provide them with a long term strategy that they can understand and stick with through both good and bad periods for the stock market. As the Wall Street Journal stated about the original edition, “Mr. Greenblatt…says his goal was to provide advice that, while sophisticated, could be understood and followed by his five children, ages 6 to 15. They are in luck. His ‘Little Book’ is one of the best, clearest guides to value investing out there.”

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

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Florida

Sane Investing in an Insane World

Presents guidelines on how to invest successfully by becoming a "prudent speculator," explaining the role of psychology in risk taking while covering such topics as spotting an undervalued stock and knowing when to sell.

Jim Cramer's Real Money

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James Dicks

For anyone or investors interested in Forex or day trading. 

Oregon

6 Ways to Trade the Dollar

The first plain-English introduction to foreign currency exchange trading--one of today's hottest profit opportunities The foreign currency market is the largest financial market in the world, and foreign exchange trading is quickly becoming one of today's most high-profile, potentially lucrative markets. One problem is that books on the topic are complex, technically dense, and difficult for Forex novices to grasp. FOREX Made Easy is the first book to approach the topic in a detailed yet accessible style, gradually and deliberately moving from simple to complex in easy and natural language. Author James Dicks--founder of the popular trading software 4X Made Easy--draws upon his trading knowledge to give readers only the information they need, from setting up a workstation to trading electronically. This Forex guidebook provides traders with: An easy-to-follow, six-step process for FOREX trading Methods for gaining an advantage using technical analysis Dozens of examples to illustrate key points

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Bob Rice

The Alternative Answer

Charles D. Ellis; Alicia H. Munnell; Andrew D. Eschtruth

Falling Short

Ken Marlin

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

Janet Tavakoli

Dear Mr. Buffett

Kevin Roose

Young Money

Steven Gaines

The Sky's the Limit

Loral Langemeier

The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing

Ernest D. Chu

Soul Currency

James J. Cramer; Cliff Mason

Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life (Audiobook)

Mike Palmer & Ryan Markish

The Book of Money

Gene G. Marcial

Gene Marcial's 7 Commandments of Stock Investing

Robert Barbera

The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing Our Economic Future

Charles Goyette

The Dollar Meltdown

Richard Anthony D'Aveni

Beating the Commodity Trap

Kim Curtis/Loral Langemeier

Bundle: Money Secrets/Put More Cash in Your Pocket.

Michele Cagan

Investing 101

James J. Cramer; Cliff Mason (As told to)

Jim Cramer's Mad Money

James J. Cramer

Mad Money

Gordon Murray; Daniel C. Goldie

The Investment Answer

Mary Rowland

A Commonsense Guide to Your 401(k)

Larry Swedroe

Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett: the Winning Strategy to Help You Achieve Your Financial and Life Goals

Joel Greenblatt; Andrew Tobias

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

James J. Cramer

Jim Cramer's Real Money

James Dicks

Forex Made Easy