Participating in the economy is a part of everyday life; yet much of what is commonly accepted as economic fact is wrong. Keynesian schoolteachers and the liberal media have filled the world with politically correct errors that myth-busting professor Robert Murphy sets straight. Murphy explains hot topics like outsourcing (why it's good for Americans) and zoning restrictions (why they're not). Just like the other books in the P.I.G. series, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism pulls no punches. Murphy defends the free market on such sensitive issues as safety regulations, racial discrimination, and child-labor laws, all in a breezy manner that is anything but textbook. From rent control to golden parachutes to where money came from in the first place, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism sets the record straight on everything you thought you knew about economics.

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The youngest partner in Deloitte Consulting's history and founder of the consulting company Ferrazzi Greenlight, the author quickly aims in this useful volume to distinguish his networking techniques from generic handshakes and business cards tossed like confetti. At conferences, Ferrazzi practices what he calls the "deep bump" - a "fast and meaningful" slice of intimacy that reveals his uniqueness to interlocutors and quickly forges the kind of emotional connection through which trust, and lots of business, can soon follow. That bump distinguishes this book from so many others that stress networking; writing with 1 Fortune Small Business editor Raz, Ferrazzi creates a real relationship with readers. Ferrazzi may overstate his case somewhat when he says, "People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses," but his clear and well-articulated steps for getting access, getting close and staying close make for a substantial leg up. Each of 31 short chapters highlights a specific technique or concept, from "Warming the Cold Call" and "Managing the Gatekeeper" to following up, making small talk, "pinging" (or sending "quick, casual" greetings) and defining oneself to the point where one's missives become "the e-mail you always read because of who it's from." In addition to variations on the theme of hard work, Ferrazzi offers counterintuitive perspectives that ring true: "vulnerability... is one of the most underappreciated assets in business today"; "too many people confuse secrecy with importance." No one will confuse this book with its competitors.

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Why do you want this job? Why should I hire you? Why do you want to leave your current job? Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? Landing a good job is a competitive process and often the final decision is based on your performance at the interview. By following the advice of prominent career and human resources expert Peter Veruki, Director of Career Planning at Rice University's graduate school of business, you'll know you have the right answers at your job interview!

A professor at the Wharton School and author of STOCKS FOR THE LONG RUN argues persuasively that tried-and-true companies in the aggregate perform better over time than growth stocks, especially those in the technology sector. He is a buy-and-hold kind of guy who predicts that an unprecedented wave of discovery and innovation will fuel economic growth in the U.S. and provide superior returns for investors who are patient. He looks at a broad array of trends and influences occurring across the globe, including demographics and shifts in labor, manufacturing capacity, and capital. His explanations of his research methods are lucid, fresh, and personal.

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In this shrewdly titled volume for today's tough economy, global strategy consultants Slywotsky (The Art of Profitability) and Wise analyze companies in mature markets that have managed to achieve significant growth without venturing outside their industry, manipulating their financial statements or acquiring dot-coms. Their chief insight is that established companies with experience in their field have, aside from their core business, a wealth of hidden assets-customer contacts, technical expertise, efficient business models-that they can exploit to grow new businesses. Take John Deere, which studied the growth in home ownership (and consequently in the residential landscaping market) and decided to graft its trusted brand name and expertise in agricultural equipment onto a significant growth market. Clarke American took an apparently waning business-check printing-and morphed it into a customer services firm for large banks. By building on intangible assets like brand recognition, knowledge of the customer and distribution channels, these companies transformed themselves into growth centers for new products and services. The authors gloss over many of the problems that hamper blue chip companies seeking growth, however-e.g., market attrition, declining cash flow, recalcitrant middle managers and stodgy tradition-and fail to note that many of the corporations they cite here fall into current growth industries like personal banking, health care and home ownership. Nevertheless, the book does take an imaginative look at the possibilities open to mature companies looking to rejuvenate themselves.

Whether you are moving up, moving on, or just starting out, America's top career coach, Robin Ryan, offers proven, easy-to-learn techniques for mastering the job interview and landing the job of your dreams. This brief, compact book, newly updated in 2008, is packed with useful tips such as: how to establish a career identity or personal brand in the opening minutes of an interview using the 60 Second Sell, answers to more than one hundred of the toughest interview questions, important questions you must ask, interview etiquette and dressing to impress, negotiation techniques for securing the best salary and benefits package, and much more.

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Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations and thorough coverage. By far the leading speech textbook of our time,The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than six million students and instructors. The Lucas Learning Tools Suite offers even more tools and study options to fit the active lifestyles and diverse learning/teaching styles of today's students and instructors.

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Expanding on the principles, insights and wisdom that made GETTING TO YES a worldwide bestseller, Roger Fisher and Scott Brown offer a straightforward approach to creating relationships that can deal with difficulties as they arise. GETTING TOGETHER takes you step-by-step through initiating, negotiating, and sustaining enduring relationships — in business, in government, between friends and in the family.

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Farley's innovative system is based on Pattern Cycles--shifting market stages that repeat in an orderly, predictable process through all price charts and time frames. These classic Pattern Cycles:

* Describe the machine language within market opportunity
* Reveal the origin of the trade setup
* Explain how to capitalize on inefficiency through every bull and bear phase
* Show exactly where to uncover consistent profit opportunities
* Offer natural methods to shift tactics quickly as conditions change
* Predict the impact of the emotional crowd on trend, range, and price development

The Master Swing Trader will help you apply Pattern Cycles to your advantage, over and over again. By encompassing virtually all market action, and revealing how price moves in a highly predictable manner, its powerful tools will give you the edge you need to take other people's money before they take yours.

In today's lightning-fast markets, open information makes profit opportunities decidedly more difficult to spot and capitalize upon--with the investing herd becoming far more skilled at spotting inefficiencies and closing them up quickly. The Master Swing Trader will teach you to recognize these trade setups one step ahead of the crowd, dive in for solid profits, and close out your position before the majority has even caught on.

Pattern Cycles are not easy or automatic; they require concentration, discipline, and skilled execution. But the payoff of these classic strategies is virtually unlimited.

The Trading course is a recorded two day seminar. It consists of 8 information packed audio cassettes segments, detailing the concepts taught by Joe DiNapoli. Aspects of money management, psychology and gamesmanship not taught in the book "Trading with DiNapoli Levels" are presented here in great detail.

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Forbes magazine's editor and CEO collaborates with classical scholar Prevas to examine the lives of the ancient world's greatest leaders, including Julius Caesar, Hannibal and Alexander the Great, and the lessons they have for today's business people. Interspersed throughout are 20th- and 21st-century examples of leaders whose careers parallel those of the ancient leaders, men like Alfred Sloan, who, like Augustus consolidating the Roman Empire, transformed the motley collection of automobile companies that was General Motors in the early 1920s into the world's largest corporation. Unfortunately, the historical studies rest uneasily alongside the contemporary business cases, which are often tenuously related to the ancient stories. Worse, the entire work rests on the unsubstantiated claim that businesses are like military empires, and the lessons drawn are often banal; for example, from the story of Hannibal's daring winter march over the Alps to take the Romans by surprise, the authors suggest we should think outside the box, respond to attacks and pay attention to detail.

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The key points of the title are that you need to establish your long-term investment objectives in writing, and with the expert advice of professionals, determine a well-reasoned and realistic set of investment plans that can help you achieve your objectives. You should set your asset mix at the highest ratio of equities you can afford financially and emotionally for the long-term. However you do this, don't try to beat the market. That's a loser's game. Ellis emphasizes not making mistakes, not losing money relative to the market, staying in the market, and realizing that your real problem is beating inflation rather than the market. In general, doing less will be doing more. Avoid speculations, shifting funds continuously, and paying too much attention to near-term performance.

Syndicated columnist Sowell (economics, Hoover Inst.) is the author of 31 books and monographs on a broad range of topics, including race, culture, education, social policy, philosophy, and economics. In this groundbreaking work, he explains the basics of economics without resorting to the graphs, equations, and jargon that typically fill the textbooks and literature in the field. Along the way, he explains exactly what economics is and what its guiding principles are. Sowell covers a broad range of topics, from scarcity, the balance of trade, and price controls to minimum-wage laws, competition, profits and losses, and the role of government. Intended as a primer for the citizen not trained in the basics of economic theory, this book is flawed only in a somewhat confusing organization that leads to repetition.

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Brands is a very entertaining professor who thoroughly understands and enjoys his material. He's also sensitive to the larger issues raised by these stories of entrepreneurs. Oddly enough, something more than money explains their motivation. While American business is based on the dynamic of the individual, self-made entrpreneur, the irony is that they are motivated by a pre-capitalist sense of calling and perfectionism. They are not the profit-maximizers hypothesized by capitalist economists.  And Brands touches on the supreme irony of America, which consists of the tension between all-men-are-created-equal ethic of the Declaration of Independence and constitutional political system and the inequality-of-wealth-and-talent ethic of the capitalist business system. Cynics would say that the some-men-are-more-equal-than-others ethic of the economic system trumps and subverts the equality-based ethic of the political system. Brands would probably say that the empowerment and freedom of the individual can only be preserved via the sanctity of private property.  The sketches of the entrepreneurs are highly entertaining and thought-provoking.

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Did you know that the outcome of most persuasive events is determined before you ever say a word? You may know how to sell, but you were probably never taught how to persuade. In this book, persuasion expert Dave Lakhani breaks down the persuasion process into easy-to-use steps. You'll learn not only how to persuade, but the biology and psychology behind persuasion. In business, persuasion is key to every aspect of sales, marketing, and negotiations. This audio reveals today's most effective persuasion techniques for business professionals.

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SALESDOGS reveals how knowing the characteristics and interactions of the five basic 'breeds' of people will be sure to help anyone improve their business and selling savvy. Different workers have the personality traits of different breeds of dogs. This is the idea behind SALESDOGS, a clever business book in which sales expert Blair Singer reveals how anyone can learn what their natural strengths and weaknesses are in order to achieve best possible results. With information on a variety of sales topics-from dealing with 'big dogs' to protecting one's territory-SALESDOGS is a fun new way of looking at the sales game.

This presentation contains some truly fabulous sales tools--ideas, strategies, and attitudes that rise above the manipulations many people associate with professional sales training. The title works as a hook; everyone wants to stop making mistakes, and the 10 mistakes offered will be recognized by everyone. But the heart of this nearly flawless audio is the author's personal values, evident throughout the program, and his authentic interest in teaching ethical sales relationships.

Graham (and his collaborator Dodd) meticulously and methodically builds a framework for the analysis and decision-making necessary for truly good investment decisions. Step-by-step, they lay out a general approach and philosophy for investment (as quite distinct from mere speculation) followed by the systematic analysis of fixed income, convertible and equity securities (i.e., bonds, converts/preferreds, stocks); a detailed discussion of financial statements; and a description of certain underlying differences between the intrinsic value of a business and its fluctuating stock price. As a result, the reader emerges with a solid philosophy and approach for his or her own investments and the analytical tools to make actual buying and selling decisions.

Neil and Dana Phillips were both working in education when they started doing a little direct selling on the side, almost 30 years ago. Their business quickly grew, and soon their income tax bill was more than Neil had earned as a tenured university professor! Now, this inspiring husband-and-wife team shares their award-winning expertise to help you claim the personal prosperity you deserve in Direct Selling 101. More success-minded Americans than ever before are growing their fortunes as independent agents for such respected direct selling organizations as Princess House, Tupperware, and Mary Kay. As Neil and Dana introduce you to the exciting world of direct selling, you'll find out why over 12 million Americans are now involved in this $30 billion industry. You'll learn the essentials of starting and building a direct selling business, from recruiting new customers and sales team members to planning parties and closing the sale. You'll also explore some of the common misconceptions about direct selling, and find out how to choose a direct selling company that fits your needs and interests. And you'll benefit from Neil and Dana's industry-leading insights into a variety of elements important to any entrepreneur, including:
· Staying focused
· Managing your time
· Motivating others
· Setting goals
· Kick-starting your creativity
· and much more!
Whether you're new to the field or expanding your current efforts, Direct Selling 101 will tell you why this business has doubled in size in the last 10 years, and how you can turn that explosive growth into your own financial security!

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In a world quickly becoming more virtual, human relations skills are being lost -- along with the skill of leadership. When you develop your leadership ability through The Dale Carnegie Leadership Mastery Course you'll learn to be flexible, adaptable, and trustworthy, as well as a tough and decisive distributor of power. Learn all the secrets of leadership mastery:

* Gain the respect and admiration of others using little-known secrets of America's most successful leaders.
* Get family, friends, and coworkers to do what you ask because they want to do it, not because they have to.
* Respond effectively when under crisis using proven techniques for thinking clearly and reducing anxiety under pressure.
* Accomplish twice as much by learning to motivate others to perform at their best.
* Make powerful decisions and follow through on them using Carnegie's action formula.

A valuable tool that stands next to the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Dale Carnegie Leadership Mastery Course offers a proven formula for success.

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Napoleon Hill devoted his life to analyzing the success of more than 500 of the 20th Century's greatest achievers, people like Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. His exhaustive research proved that the essence of success lies within 17 simple principles that, when used together, serve as an infallible formula for achievement. These 17 key principles are the foundation of The Science of Personal Achievement, a comprehensive course in success that empowers you to convert any adversity into advantage. And it all starts with a thought.

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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.

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Most customer service operations have it wrong. They gauge their effectiveness and productivity based on the number of customer calls or contacts they handle. But do your customers really want a 3relationship” with your company2s customer service department, or do they simply want to purchase your products or services so they can put them to use?

In this groundbreaking book, Bill Price and David Jaffe offer a new, game-changing approach, showing how managers are taking the wrong path and are using the wrong metrics to measure customer service. Customer service, they assert, is only needed when a company does something wrong - eliminating the need for service is the best way to satisfy customers. To be successful, companies need to treat service as a data point of dysfunction and figure what they need to do to eliminate the demand.

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This comprehensive 15 cd training course will explain not only the basics but the intricate ins and outs on stock trading. There is no other study course as thorough. This set includes the following cds: CD1. Missing, CD2. Introduction to Stocks and Stock Options Trading (continued), CD3 Beyond the Basics, CD4. Beyond the Basics (continued), CD5. High Profit-Low Risk Debit Spreads, CD6. High Profit-Low Risk Debit Spreads (continued), CD7. Directional Trading for Instant Success, CD8. Directional Trading for Instant Success (continued), CD9. Starting the Trading Day and Ratio Backspreads, CD10. Ratio Backspreads and The 5 Minute Success Formula, CD11. Trading the Markets, CD12. Straddling the Markets, CD13. Tracking the Sideways Market, CD14. Tracking the Sidewals Market (continued), CD15. Protecting Your Portfolio with Collars.

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We're constantly negotiating in our lives, whether it's convincing the kids to do their homework or settling million-dollar lawsuits. For those who need help winning these battles, Roger Fisher has developed a simple and straightforward five-step system for how to behave in negotiations. Narrated soothingly by NPR announcer Bob Edwards, Fisher adds the meaty portions of the material with a sense of playfulness. The blend of voices makes this tape easy to listen to, especially the real-life negotiating scenarios, in which negotiating examples are given. This is a must-have tape for every businessperson's car.

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Everybody wants to connect, but not everybody knows how to. Connecting is all about your friendliness, your ability to engage, and your willingness to give value first. When you combine those three attributes, you will have uncovered the secret of powerful connections and rich relationships. In Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Black Book of Connections you will find secrets uncovered, myths dispelled, and hundreds of ways to interact, connect, and score. You'll learn things like where to network for the best results, how to make the initial connection, how to capture the opportunity, and how to follow up so that you capitalize on the connections that you make. The Little Black Book of Connections is not just a sales guide, it's a business guide and a life guide. Gitomer's 6.5 Assets for Networking Your Way to Rich Relationships will get you from who you know to who knows you.

Jeffrey Gitomer's bestselling work in which he shares his tips on how to be a successful salesperson has a new edition and is now available on audio. He provides motivational advice and practical techniques for initiating, maintaining, and closing a sales presentation. Written in a breezy manner with short, easy-to-remember suggestions, this audio will be popular with persons just getting started in this field or those needing an inspirational pep talk. In an area where there are literally dozens of works already available, The 1 Sales Bible will prove helpful to anyone who listens to it.

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In turbulent markets you need to become an investment predator. Investment predators create a plan for capturing their prey (prime investment opportunities) while risk is fairly low, and spit the bones out (sell the investment) before they become prey themselves. Pounce describes a system that is neither frantic day trading nor passive buy-and-hold investing. You set up a three-pronged strategy based on quantitative measures of market value, economic direction, and market sentiment, and then choose stocks, exchange traded funds (ETFs), or mutual funds using easy-to-understand criteria. You tweak the system no more than once a month. You2ve now got the laws of probability in your favor. Recessions, disruptive periods, or bear markets become windows of opportunity. Pounce teaches you with dozens of specific examples how to run your investment life so as to never be the prey again!

John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States from Indonesia to Panama to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corporations, such as Halliburton and Bechtel. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the U.S. government, World Bank, and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks, dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission. This extraordinary true story exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world.

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In this 1936 self-help classic, Dale Carnegie presents maxims, techniques, and profiles in success designed to enhance both professional and personal relationships. He highlights the psychology behind behavior patterns, and encourages readers to use their understanding to improve their public speaking skills and their self-esteem.

In Just 18 Months, Nicolas Darvas Turned $25,000 into Over $2 Million... This is How He Did It... ...and How You Can Do it Too! With just fifty pounds sterling to his name, at the age of 23, Nicolas Darvas fled his native Hungary using a forged exit visa, to escape the Nazis. A dancer by trade, he toured nightclubs and other venues, making a living as a performer. While on tour in 1952, a Toronto nightclub offered Darvas $3000 worth of stock in a Canadian mining company, instead of his normal cash payment. He accepted the offer, and within two months, made an $8000 profit. When this happened, Darvas became very interested in the stock market. Seeing the potential for easy money in the stock market, but realizing that his initial success was based on luck, over the next several years, Darvas became committed to conquering Wall Street. He read as much as he possibly could about the stock market. He analyzed company balance sheets, studied analyst forecasts, and read dozens of investment newsletters. This book is the result of that study, including how Darvas used his system to take a $25,000 investment and turn it into a $2.25 million fortune in just 18 months. Nicolas Darvas wasn't a professional stock trader. He was a dancer. Yet, his unique approach to stock trading, which allowed him to make money regardless of whether the market rose or fell, enabled him to make a fortune. Will this system work for you? Yes! Unlike most stock trading systems, Darvas' unique strategies work, regardless of the economy or other market conditions. In fact, thanks to modern day analysis tools, his system works as well today as it ever has. Every day, people make money in the stock market.

Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules: The Lost Writings consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between 1919 and1923 for Success Magazine, of which he eventually become an editor. Hill's obsession with achieving material success had led him from poverty stricken Appalachian Mountains with the desire to study successful people. These articles focus on Hill's philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experience of a multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons, showing readers how these successful people achieved such status. Many of his writings such as the chapter on Law of Attraction, written in the March 1919 issue, have recently basis of several bestselling books. Readers will discover principles that will assure their success if studied and put into action.

Fisher lays out the fundamental principles of intelligent investing. Widely respected and admired, Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies are not only studied and applied by today's finance professionals, but are also regarded by many as gospel. He is  known as one of the pioneers of modern investment theory.

The transformation from a manufacturing-based economy to one that's all about service has been well documented. Today it's estimated that nearly 75 percent of Americans work in the service sector. Instead of producing tangibles--automobiles, clothes, and tools--more and more of us are in the business of providing intangibles--health care, entertainment, tourism, legal services, and so on. However, according to Harry Beckwith, most of these intangibles are still being marketed like products were 20 years ago. In Selling the Invisible, Beckwith argues that what consumers are primarily interested in today are not features, but relationships. Even companies who think that they sell only tangible products should rethink their approach to product development and marketing and sales. For example, when a customer buys a Saturn automobile, what they're really buying is not the car, but the way that Saturn does business. Beckwith provides an excellent forum for thinking differently about the nature of services and how they can be effectively marketed. If you're at all involved in marketing or sales, then Selling the Invisible is definitely worth a look.

An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who's wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car, or how to outwit Starbucks. This title offers the hidden story behind these and other questions, as economist Tim Harford ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and of course the United States to reveal how supermarkets, airlines, and coffee chains--to name just a few--are vacuuming money from our wallets. Harford punctures the myths surrounding some of today's biggest controversies, including the high cost of health-care; he reveals why certain environmental laws can put a smile on a landlord's face; and he explains why some industries can have high profits for innocent reasons, while in other industries something sinister is going on. Covering an array of economic concepts including scarce resources, market power, efficiency, price gouging, market failure, inside information, and game theory, Harford sheds light on how these forces shape our day-to-day lives, often without our knowing it. Showing us the world through the eyes of an economist, Tim Harford reveals that everyday events are intricate games of negotiations, contests of strength, and battles of wits. With a light touch and sly wit, The Undercover Economist turns "the dismal science" into a true delight.

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With unique access to Starbucks personnel and resources, Joseph Michelli discovered that the success of Starbucks is driven by the people who work there -- the partners -- and the special experience they create for each customer. Michelli reveals how you can follow the Starbucks way.

The bestselling Mastering the Trade presents you with a step-by-step approach for becoming a successful trader. Written with authority by fulltime trader and fund manager, John F. Carter, this straightforward, all-you-need-to-know resource combines an insightful market overview with specific trading strategies and concepts. 

Even if your credit cards are maxed out and you have a huge mortgage to pay off, you can still get rid of all your debt in about five to seven years and begin rapid wealth-building without sacrificing the things that matter most to you! This is as close to a financial chain reaction as you'll ever find. You'll be amazed how quickly your debts melt away, and how rapidly your net worth climbs! In this program, you'll learn how to prioritize and pay off every penny of your debt in the shortest possible time. You'll discover how to operate 100% on cash ... even in emergencies   so you'll NEVER need to use credit again. It will teach you how to focus every dollar you're currently using on debt payments toward building your wealth. And best of all, it will show you how to do all of this with the money you already make! In addition to getting and staying out of debt, it will show you how to attain REAL financial freedom. You'll also learn simple, no-hassle strategies for investing your money for long-term growth. And without debt dragging you down, you'll be amazed at how quickly you can amass a fortune! Believe it or not, after their debts have been paid off, most people can retire in about 5 to 7 years – and they can achieve this using the money they are already bringing home! Far from being a lottery or a "get rich quick" scheme, this is a rock-solid plan – a plan that will absolutely work for you – a plan that will take you from debt to wealth.

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 1 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 1 The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In

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Country boy makes good in this down-home tale of self-made multimillionaire Wyly. In his humble post-Depression Louisiana roots, Wyly learned his first business lessons from football strategy, his father's tiny newspaper business and his mother's bargaining skills. A lucky meeting propelled him to the University of Michigan's Business School and his first corporate job at IBM, where he had to work fast to keep from succumbing to culture shock as he discovered there ain't no Bubbas in Michigan. Energetic and restless, he soon left IBM for Honeywell and then created his own technology companies, rescuing failing businesses, founding Green Mountain Energy and devoting himself to environmentalism. Citing Sam Walton as a hero and Ross Perot as a personal friend, Wyly stresses the power and privilege of self-creation and speaks honestly about what he's learned: that failure is crucial to achieving success, independent thought is imperative, luck serendipitous and power useless unless it is wielded for good.

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Financial historian, noted finance expert, and author Charles Kindleberger was the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT for 33 years. In this updated edition of his most famous work, the author presents and intriguing study of the major financial upheavals of history. Chock-full of colorful anecdotes and epigrams, this title encourages listeners to learn from the examples of history and take stock of their assets before it's too late.

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In this new, greatly updated edition of 1 The Return of Depression Economics, Paul shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up for the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. He also lays out the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis, and turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession. Brilliantly crafted in Paul's trademark style - lucid, lively and supremely informed - this new edition of 1 The Return of Depression Economics will become an instant cornerstone of the debate over how to respond to the crisis.

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Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's 1 Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, 11, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it.

This course will lead you step-by-step through every topic in of Series 6 Exam making even the most difficult concepts crystal clear. In just a few hours you'll grasp the essence of the entire course...effortlessly. Series 6 Exam preparation cannot be easier. You will cover ALL topics with incredible details! TOPICS COVERED: Securities Markets; Investment Securities; Economic Factors; Securities and Tax Regulations; Marketing, Prospecting, and Sales Presentations; Evaluation of Customers; Product Information: Investment Company Securities; Variable Contracts; Opening and Servicing Customer Accounts. SCOPE OF THE EXAMINATION: The Series 6 is comprised of 100 multiple-choice questions and 135 minutes of testing time is allowed to complete the examination. A candidate must correctly answer 70 percent of the questions to receive a passing grade.

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly.

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Consult Goodman for radical money sense. A former long-tenured 1 Money magazine reporter, he tackles the money issue endemic to Americans according to six psychological types--Strivers, Ostriches, Debt Desperadoes, Coasters, High Rollers, and Squirrels. Each profile is based on the emotional effects of money, whether that involves indifference, its use as a measure of success, or high tolerance of risk. So these psychological examinations feature strengths as well as weaknesses, initial attitudes and suggested changes, individual/couple financial snapshots and anecdotes in narrative and in sidebars, quizzes, and summaries of actions to take. Names are unusually descriptive; Debt Desperadoes are measured by the number of maxed-out credit cards, whereas Squirrels are averse to any spending no matter the reason.

Buffett's plain-speaking suffuses the book and renders his public and private successes and failures wonderfully human and universal. Schroeder's sections detailing the genesis of Buffett's investment strategy, his early mentoring by Benjamin Graham (who imparted the memorable "cigar butt" scheme: purchasing discarded stocks and taking a final puff). Inspiring managerial advice abounds and competes with gossipy tidbits (the married Buffett's very public relationship with Washington Post editor Katherine Graham) in this rich, surprisingly affecting biography.

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There are 3 major sources of government funding, Federal, State and Local which include counties, cities, towns and villages. The mistake many people make is that they might only try calling a government agency such as HUD, but HUD doesn't disperse the money in many of their programs. It goes instead to the local areas and it's the local governments that disperse the money. For example HUD has CDBG (Community Development Block Grants) money with over $4.7 billion available this year, so you would have to contact the local government to find out what CDBG funding is available in your area and what the qualifications are. Another little known fact is that 23% of the budget for the Federal and State government has to be made available to small business to compete with. The SBA (Small Business Administration) targets their funding to businesses with $5 million or less in revenues and 500 or less employees. In addition, these sources have a lot of programs which target funding for minorities, disabled people, veterans and even WOMEN. National Grants Conferences has many years of research and has taken this knowledge and all these programs and combined it together all into one place. This CD set will save you a lot of time and effort in finding and securing government money for the program that best fits your needs.

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Mortensen (Maximum Influence) draws on Howard Gardner's research on multiple forms of intelligence and Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence to introduce his concept of PQ7the specialized intelligence required for the art of persuasion. While the book is primarily geared toward marketing and sales professionals, the author argues that the inability to command influence is a universal personal and professional dilemma; he makes a compelling case that teachers, social workers, parents and spouses can benefit enormously from the respect power that accompanies finely tuned people skills. Mortensen invokes great communicators from Confucius and Thoreau to corporate CEOs to present PQ's key components (the five C's of trust: character, competence, confidence, credibility and congruence) and rewards (more sales and fruitful negotiations, higher incomes, happier relationships). Sections on mirroring and other nonverbal persuasion techniques are especially fascinating, and the author's emphasis on developing self-knowledge as a crucial ingredient will inspire readers to determine their purpose and passion. Mortenson's insights are enriched by anecdotes, humorous illustrations, a persuasion IQ test and an accessible step-by-step structure. Simultaneously useful and entertaining, this book is a thought-provoking examination into developing a vital talent.

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Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating new 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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Hagstrom, a principal in a Philadelphia investment firm, describes the investment strategies and techniques used by Warren Buffett to realize enormous success as a professional investor. Aiming his analysis at the individual investor, Hagstrom reviews the influence of Buffett's mentors, Ben Graham and Philip Fisher, and illustrates Buffett's synthesis of their investment philosophies. Hagstrom provides case studies of Buffett's major investments, showing the qualities of the companies that had appeal. Buffett's investment philosophy espouses long-term investing, respect for good management, and recognition of the value of a business franchise. This insightful work is a worthwhile complement to Graham's classic writings, considered essential for new investors.

Though written before 9/11, the insights in this program have a global view that is still very current. The audio consists of thoughtful lessons from a collection of CEOs who include Klaus Schwab, James J. Shiro, Timothy Koogle, C. Michael Armstrong, Esther Dyson, Niall W.A. FitzGerald, and Michael Dell. Dell's piece on hypergrowth alone is worth the price of admission. As a group, the pieces are urbane and far-reaching works that have an academic aura but are still well grounded in the practicalities of leadership today. Kudos to the top-of-his-game reader, Grover Gardner, and to the publisher for creating a deeply fascinating lesson on managing in the new world order.

First published in 1973, this seventh printing of a A Random Walk looks forward and does so broadly, examining a new range of investment choices facing the turn-of-the-century investor: money-market accounts, tax-exempt funds, Roth IRAs, and equity REITs, as well as the potential benefits and pitfalls of the emerging global economy. In his updated "life-cycle guide to investing," Malkiel offers age-related investment strategies that consider one's capacity for risk. (A 30-year-old who can depend on wages to offset investment losses has a different risk capacity from a 60-year-old.)

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As boomers reach midlife faster than a new Beatles CD can climb the charts, many are wondering if they'll have sufficient resources to comfortably make it through their golden years. Investment guru Charles Schwab's You're Fifty--Now What? addresses these concerns with a step-by-step road map to help the middle-aged assess where they're at, determine where they want to go, and pick the proper mix of investments to get there. "While getting older isn't a bad thing," Schwab writes, "being unprepared for it is. And by not understanding the financial part of your future, you sabotage yourself and limit your choices."

Whether you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or just trying to manage your personal finances, understanding the money game is essential to making informed business decisions and achieving financial success. But how many of us really have a handle on how this complex system works? It explains the forces that guide the system, on both a macro- and a microeconomic level, arming listeners with the knowledge to control their own financial destiny.

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For the first time, the successful Turtle system is explained -- the rules, timing, risks, and rewards that can deliver enormous profits. Faith shows you how to use this system, including how to select the right trades, smooth out returns, effectively diversify, and know when to exit a winning trade. Sharing behind-the-scenes insights and step-by-step techniques, Faith shows how you can use the Turtle Way to achieve enormous profits-whatever your skill level.

Feel more at ease at parties, banquets, receptions, and networking events. Use icebreakers that work every time. Engage anyone in conversation with poise and confidence. Come across as composed and self-assured when talking to people or entertaining clients at conventions, trade shows and other work-related functions.

Brodow (Beating the Success Trap) covers familiar territory in this primer on common negotiations like buying a new home or asking for a raise at work. There are also plenty of lists, such as 10 traits for successful negotiation, and three rules for achieving a win-win outcome. There are no surprises: the pointers are all along the lines of "ask for a better outcome than you are willing to settle for" and "make minor concessions." Drawing heavily upon his own professional and personal experiences as a U.S. Marine and a professional actor, he shows how to achieve "win-win" scenarios in various settings.

Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil” because of his uncanny ability to predict the direction of fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States, from a $2,500 investment. In the 1980s, Pickens became a household name when he executed a series of unsolicited buyout bids for undervalued oil companies, in the process reinventing the notion of shareholders’ rights. Even his failures were successful in that they forced risk-averse managers to reconsider the way they did business.

Dr. Stanley summarizes findings from their research into the key characteristics that explain how the elite club of millionaires have become "wealthy." Focusing on those with a net worth of at least $1 million, their surprising results reveal fundamental qualities of this group that are diametrically opposed to today's earn-and-consume culture, including living below their means, allocating funds efficiently in ways that build wealth, ignoring conspicuous consumption, being proficient in targeting marketing opportunities, and choosing the "right" occupation.

Iacocca, the bestselling author and former president of Ford and Chrysler, is back to sound a howl of anger against the sad state of leadership in the U.S. today. Iacocca starts with a rundown of sins committed by George W. Bush and his administration, and then moves on to criticize the American auto industry-naturally, he's furious over the sale of Chrysler to Daimler-Benz. Along the way, Iacocca rails against the lack of leadership in vital national concerns such as health care, open markets and energy policy.

Consultant Crawford urges executives to focus on what he calls "Pivotal Agreements": elements that are crucial in determining whether every sale meets broader company objectives. For example, if a sales team doesn't achieve the pivotal agreement to defer price negotiations until late in the sales cycle, prices will probably fail to satisfy profit objectives. To create appropriate pivotal agreements, Crawford recommends a "3D Model" involving data, dialogue and discipline to "close the gap" between strategy and sales.

Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill - the world of trading - this audio book is a captivating insight into one of the least understood factors of all our lives. In an entertaining narative style, the author succeeds in tackling three major intellectual issues: the problem of induction, the survivorship biases, and our genetic unfitness to the modern world. Taleb uses stories and anecdotes to illustrate our overestimation of causality and the heuristics that make us view the world ...

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Rogers and his fiancee, Paige Parker, began their adventure on January 1, 1999, from Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan, Congo, Colombia and East Timor. They saw the real world from the ground up - the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood. Here are some of Rodgers' conclusions: India, like many other large nations, will break into several countries, The Euro is doomed to fail, There are fortunes to be made in Angola, Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a scam. This title is great for the armchair adventurers, global investors and any seeing the world.

John Addison on leadership and success. Topics include: Becoming a Leader, I'm Talking to You, Stuck in the Mud of Life, People are Designed for Success, Act the Way You Want to Feel, Be Positive Even When Traveling, To Be Good You Got to First Be Bad, We Market Hope and Opportunity, A Lighthouse of a Weathervane?, If Not Now When, 99%, Fears Into Fuel, "I'm Sick of IT".

Beckwith applies his unparalleled clarity, insight, humor, and expertise to a new age of mass communication and mass confusion. What Clients Love will help you stand out from the crowd - and sell anything to anyone. From making a pitch to building a brand, from designing a logo to closing a sale, this is a field guide to take with you to the front lines of today's business battles.

This collection includes three of Tom Hopkins' most successful audio books: Mastering the Art of Selling, The Academy of Master Closing and Advanced Sales Survival Training. Hopkins was a millionaire by the time he was twenty-seven. He began his career as a real estate agent (failing miserably and earning $42 a month). After investing his last few dollars in a sales training seminar, Tom quickly rose to the nation's number one sales position - setting records that still stand today.

Successful people don't take "no" for an answer. Get what you want through successful negotiation. Let KARRASS help you strengthen the key negotiating skills you need in business and in life. The strength of your agreements, understandings and relationships can make the difference between success and failure. Weak agreements always break down. They bring nagging dissatisfaction and aggravation into your business and personal lives. Strong agreements help you reach and exceed your own objectives. Help has arrived!

World-renowned chess master and Fortune 500 business consultant, Bruce Pandolfini, shows how chess principles can be simply and logically applied to any business or life situation. Some secrets of strategy that everyone will find useful: 1) Be aggressive, but don't take unnecessary chances, 2) Answer all threats with a counterthreat, 3) Always get at least as much as you give up. Crisply and engagingly written, with entertaining examples and chess anecdotes, this title, will improve your strategic thinking so you'll never again debate your next move.

Managers and employees spend more than 40 percent of their time listening to other people, but often do it so poorly that the result is misunderstood instructions, misdirected projects, and erroneous actions - millions of dollars' worth of mistakes just because most people don't know how to listen. In this new edition of her classic guide to the art of effective listening, the author, shows you how to acquire active, productive, listening skills and put them to work for you professionally, socially, and personally.

Quibein has developed a five-point plan that will have you speaking and writing with more confidence and clarity than you ever thought possible. He reveals that all successful business communication - written, spoken, or just implied by body language or attitude - employs the same handful of basic principles that anyone can master. Speaking with the same authority and appeal that earned him the presidency of the National Speakers Association, Qubein share his insight on a wide range of skills.

In our time, Alexander's example of unprecedented and unparalleled success has inspired leaders of business and government, from media mogul Ted Turner to Desert Storm commander General Norman Schwarzkopf. In this outstanding audio, Partha Bose, a leading expert on business strategy, shows how you can use the secrets of Alexander's success to conquer today's challenges, as successful executives, politicians, and generals have.

Home to some of the world's grandest, flashiest, and most lucrative casino resorts, Las Vegas's multitude of attractions draws some 40 million tourists from around the world every year. But Vegas hasn't always been booming at the level it is today. This newest influx is largely a result of three competing business moguls: Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn, and Dr. Gary Loveman. Shart, Insightful, and revealing, this is the gripping story of how billions of dollars and drive for power made the personal visions became reality.

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Who Moved My Cheese? Is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a  "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy. "Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind. And "The Maze" is where you look for what you want. When you come to see "The Handwriting on the Wall," you can discover for yourself how to deal with change.

The New Conceptual Selling provides three highly effective keys for getting information, giving information, and getting your customer to commitment. These CDs highlight the best of the New Conceptual Selling in a casual interview format with authors Diane Sanchez and Stephen Heiman. Revised and updated for the 21st century, you will learn the key components of this sought after sales program and the best ways to make it work.

Lilyan Wilder is a communications consultant who has worked with the world's most notable public figures, broadcast correspondents and many Fortune 500 companies. Her clients have included media icons Oprah Winfrey and Charlie Rose, former President Bush, John Scully, and Katherine Graham. This audio will teach you how to cope with the panic, avoidance, and trauma of speaking as you give the gift of your convictions and experience your voice for the first time.

Globality is not a new or different term for globalization. It's a new name for what happens next. Globality is a business and economic phenomenon that, like a giant tsunami, is rapidly crashing over world markets - for better of for worse - and is intensifying with incredible power and speed. In Globality, the authors present a vast amount of vital information and insightful analysis to reveal a startling truth: Over the past 20 years, the countries, companies, and leaders of rapidly developing nations have developed considerable entrepreneurial talents ...

Property management guru Dolf de Roos demonstrates field-tested strategies and insider techniques designed for novice and seasoned real estate investors alike - available anytime you want! In the car, out for a run, or unwinding at home: If you can play a compact disc, Real Estate Riches can provide practical steps to financial prosperity through property. As the real estate market declines, join the smart money by buying at the bottom. Don't miss this great opportunity.

Fox combines his own experience as an extremely successful entrepreneur with lessons learned at the family dinner table by business leaders such as Jim Donald, CEO of Starbucks, Tom Campbell, found of Tom's of Maine; Leslie Blodgett, CEO of Bare Escentuals; and George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees. This compelling audiobook contains hard-hitting advice on independence and self-reliance, management dynamics and problem solving.

Learn the 25 keys to a great business plan, including writing the company's mission, identifying market opportunities, calculating appropriate financial ratios and projecting growth rates, that will help guide your company's expansion and attract necessary financing.

Listen as Fisher debunks the conventional market myths that many investment decisions are based upon, and reveals a precise methodology that will allow you to know what others don't. The methodology - which has helped Fisher achieve success throughout his long financial career - is as easy as asking three simple questions. The first will help you see things the way they really are. The second will help you see things that other investors often miss. And the third will help you understand your relationship with today's markets.

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Fear short selling no more. In this 80 minute audio, Toni Turner will take you step by step through the process of selling short. Her systematic top down approach shows you how to pick the right stocks for selling short and it will prove to you that short selling is not as difficult or as scary as you may think.

This 8 CD or audio cassette set course is one of the most thorough, step-by-step guides on trading in the futures market available. Starting with the basics of Getting Started, the moderator takes the listener on a journey of the markets. You will learn the terminology of trading and then the importance of selecting the right broker. In the fourth hour you will start scratching the surface of implementing a trading strategy. Then dig in deeper with advanced trading strategies. The next hour is dedicated to money management and finally a questions and answers session.  Whether on the road, or just listening at home, this is a great course for learning the markets.

Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, agains brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and profits. His optimistic, no excuses, get-it-done mind-set is riveting. Packed with personal anecdotes and written in Jack's destinctive no-b.s. voice 'Winning' is a great business book with original thinking.

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Get an extraordinary inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. He is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as "The Man Who Moves Markets," Soros has made a billion dollars going up against the British pound. He is not merely a man of finance, but a thinker to reckon with as well.

The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, perhaps the greatest investment advisor of the 20th century, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Among the audio's special features are the use of numerous comparisons of pairs of common stocks to bring out their elements of strength and weakness and the construction of investment portfolios.

This audio CD set helps you master the critical habits of wealth building. Key speakers at this annual meeting are: Alex Green, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, Karim Rahemtulla, Dr. Mark Skousen,  Michael Checkan, Dr. Van Tharp and Rick Rule. You'll learn what history tells us about stock returns, what the world's smartest financial minds see in the markets for the next ten years, and how to use this information.

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizard: Michael Steinhardt

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizard: Ed Seykota and Larry Hite

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizard: Paul Tudor Jones (The Art of Aggressive Trading) and Gary Bielfeldt (Yes, They Do Trade T-Bonds in Peoria)

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizard Richard Dennis

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizard Bruce Kovner

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizard Michael Marcus

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizards Tom Baldwin and Tony Saliba

Learn trading secrets in these one-on-one interviews with Market Wizards William O'Neil and David Ryan.

Learn trading secrets in this one-on-one interview with Market Wizard Jim Rogers. Rogers topic: Buying Value and Selling Hysteria.

Learn trading secrets in this one-on-one interview with Market Wizard Marty Schwartz - Champion trader.

First published in 1923, this title is a fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest speculators who ever lived. Now, more than 80 years later, it remains the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever written. Generations of investors have found that it has more to teach them about themselves and other investors than years of experience in the market.

Short selling is explained in clear, understandable terms with examples that outline the concept. This seminar maps out the risk and guides you to the most useful resources and strategies. Smith uses charts and personal examples to show you how to recognize the inherent trends in the market and profit from them.

This interactive course will help you remove the emotional component involved in making buy/sell decisions. Kiev will coach you on the best ways to deal with the stress, anxiety, and adrenaline rush that's a by-product of daily market activity. And you'll learn the same methods he's trained thousands of professional traders to employ as they triumph over the psychological provides facing every trader.

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Writings by Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, George Soros and other leading figures of finance. In their own words, these legends of Wall Street share their best investment ideas and advice. This title offers unique insights into how these professionals and others achieved financial success through intelligent investing. It will inspire and motivate you dig deep for that special market winner.

Abridged audio CD version of Mr. Schwager's interview with Mark Weinstein (High-Percentage Trader) and  Brian Gelber (Broker Turned Trader).

Abridged audio CD version of Mr. Schwager's interview with Dr. Van Tharp. Subject includes: The Psychology of Trading

Audio versioin of Jon Najarian live seminar.

Audio version of Van Tharp's seminar.

Audio version of Lewis Borsellino's live seminar.

From individuals seeking income to support early retirement to those looking to convert qualified-plan assets into inheritance vehicles, this presentation addresses the full spectrum of client needs and circumstances. In every instance, retirement specialist Frank Rainaldi explains how advisors can maximize a client's retirement assets while also minimizing client taxes and penalties - a combination that can dramatically enhance advisor revenues as well.

Business planning expert Robert Hales revisits the essential elements of estate planning - but offers a significant new twist: He shows how slightly tweaking standard estate planning strategies can lead to optimal effectiveness. Hale clearly underscores the need for integrating both the "bean counter" and "visionary" approach into the estate planning process.

Join Terry Stanaland, as his entertaining new presentation walks you through the top estate-planning tools and demonstrates how to apply them in every scenario. Drawing on real-world case studies, Stanaland explores in detail the wide variety of estate planning techniques available to achieve client goals.

Rediscover an essential concept to investment success that has long been overlooked: asset allocation. Join leading investment advisor and top wealth manager, Michael Kresh, CFP in his new thought provoking and highly entertaining presentation. You will gain straightforward insight into the steps essential to involving clients in the asset allocation process.

Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on begind the scenes. Hedgehogging allows you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.

The first definitive guide to understanding and profiting from the relationship between the stock market and interest rates. It provides an historically proven system, rooted in fundamental economics, that allows investors and traders to forecast the stock market using data from the interest rate markets - together with supporting market sentiment and cultural indicators - to pinpoint and profit from major turns in the stock market.

Audio 2-CD set of Mr. Freeburgh's popular trading seminar.

Audio 2-CD set of Mr. McMillan's popular options trading seminar.

In this 2-CD audio set, Larry McMillan discusses his approach to using options and leading market indicator.

Audio CD of Mr. Nison's candlestick charting seminar

Audio CD of Mr. Schwager award winning seminar on his interviews and insights into the great minds on Wall Street

Research studies prove a stong command of the English language is directly linked to your career advancement, to the money you make, and to your social success. This Verbal Advantage Success Edition will give you a vocabulary more powerful than that of most executives and professionals, even those with advanced degrees.

Advanced Level 6 thru 10 includes 12 audio CDs and easy to use Guidebook. It is recommended that Level 1 - 5 be completed prior to using this course.

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Research studies prove a stong command of the English language is directly linked to your career advancement, to the money you make, and to your social success. This Verbal Advantage Success Edition will give you a vocabulary more powerful than that of most executives and professionals, even those with advanced degrees.

Level 1 thru 5 includes 12 audio CDs and easy to use Guidebook. Also available is the Success Edition Advanced Level 6 thru 10. See Book-ID TB709

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Toby Crabel explains his strategies for system and portfolio creation with special attention to longer-term performance.

Also includes course PDF files for your review.

Master hypnotist John Parada, PhD, takes the listerner on a wonderful journey into the psychological aspect of emotion management. Listen to Parada gently ease you into a dream-like state that will allow you to self-analyze and develop a successful trading state of mind. His words are accompanied by soothing music. You will feel refreshed and ready to tackle the markets with new confidence.

A hundred-thousand investors have turned to this bestselling guide for mastering successful trading by Dr. Alexander Elder, a professional trader, a world-class expert in technical analysis, and a practicing psychiatrist. He believes that successful trading is based on three M's: Mind, Method, and Money.

Trading for a Living helps discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading accounts.

As former head of the Magellan Fund, the most successful equity mutual fund in the country when he ran it, as well as current trustee of the Fidelity group of funds - Peter Lynch is the source for stock and mutual fund investing. In Beating the Street, Lynch's goal is simple: to teach you how to have more money tomorrow than you have today. He believes success depends on an investor's ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow their investments to succeed.

Lynch provides sound advice on the following topics:

* Shopping for stocks: why shopping malls are great investment guides. * Looking for a few good stocks: how some investments lead to others, * Prospecting in bad news: why conventional wisdom may not be the final word.

In Beating the Dow with Bonds, Michael O'Higgins, bestselling author of Beating the Dow and one of America's top-ranked money managers, provides a proven system for achieving the lowest-risk highest returns in a chaotic stock market - investment advice requiring less than five minutes per year that will help you beat the pros 95 percent of the time regardless of market conditions.

With stock market fluctuations ranging from all-time highs to all-time lows, O'Higgins insists that incorporating bonds - once considered the ugly step-sibling to stocks - into your portfolio is the only way to win.

With as little as $5000, you can choose winning portfolio selections and get maximum return on your money. Michael O'Higgins, the professional money manager who has been in the top 10% of all equity fund managers for the last ten years, provides a step-by-step program that focuses on the top 30 Dow stocks, a program that anyone can follow.

Beating the Dow will teach you to invest in the top Dow stocks that paid the highest dividends the previous year, several ways of identifying blue-chip bargain stocks, and how to apply market timing to enhance returns. Best of all, O'Higgins explains how to use just a handful of strategies to beat the pros at their own game!

Mark McCormack is the founder of International Management Group, a multimillion-dollar, worldwide corporation that is a consultant to fifty Fortune 500 companies, a major producer of television programming and credited as the single most important influence in turning sports into big business.

Listen to McCormack as he tells you how to - read people - create the right first impression - take the leading edge - run and attend meetings - the secrets of successful selling and moving up within the organization.

McCormack shares his experience, technique and wisdom, his street smart insights and skills, in a practical, how-to manner. Business will never be the same!

It's a wild, wild world out there. In Europe, Asia and elsewhere, new markets are exploding, with fortunes being made overnight and profits on overseas investments predicted to far outpace American returns. This all spells opportunity for both the experienced investor and the beginner. So strap yourself in for the ride of your life. Mark Mobius, the Indiana Jones of global investing is handing you a ... PASSPORT to PROFITS.

Learn solid new strategies from a seasoned pro in this 90 min. presentation, as Ansbacher  shows how to pick the right options by balancing strike prices and expiration dates - in the right market by assessing indexes vs. individual stocks.

This rare presentation will navigate you through uncharted territory and keep you on a course to trading success.