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Title: Sensible Preparedness

Author: R S Woods

Narrator: Alicia Kaye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-13

Publisher: RS Woods

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

There is an essential need to be sensible about what you can do to save money and to be well prepared for an emergency situation, be it a long-term power outage, sudden unemployment, or tough economic times. It is crucial to do so safely and economically! This book will suggest free or low-cost ways to prepare you and your family for emergencies. It will help you look at your situation and evaluate what you can do and how you can to do it without depleting your savings. It will offer practical solutions and ideas for surviving in your own home if the need arises.

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Title: Financial Strategies and Tips

Subtitle: Making and Saving Money in Today's Economy, Volume 2

Author: Melina Cooper

Narrator: Claton Butcher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-13

Publisher: JK Publishing II

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

In times of economic uncertainties, people look for ways to save money and cut back on their monthly expenses. Just as the local economy can change at any moment, so can life. You may suddenly find that you are expecting a new addition to your family, or maybe retirement is sneaking up on you.

Changing your habits and sticking to those changes can be the hardest part of the process. As people, we often get stuck in our ways and thus, getting out of old habits can be a challenging process. The rewards, however, are well worth the effort.

Melina Cooper is an expert when it comes to finances and looking for ways to save. If you are looking for new, creative money-making and saving methods, she has numerous books on various topics and subjects to guide anybody out of debt and into financial freedom and security.

Financial Strategies and Tips, Volume II is just a beginning point, so please look for her first edition, Financial Strategies and Tips, Volume I for a complete overview to your financial freedom.

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Title: Against the Herd: 6 Contrarian Investment Strategies You Should Follow

Author: Steve Cortes

Narrator: Ross Douglas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

CNBC's Fast Money commentator Steve Cortes shows how to buck the trend and become a well-informed investor.

The public needs to think independently and not be duped, particularly because those who are selling their messages or promoting their ideas have a plethora of powerful media through which to do so. Against the Herd presents six contrarian views of major events that will shape the future. Steve Cortes of CNBC pulls no punches in explaining these trends.

Many will find his views counterintuitive and even controversial. Some will find his forecasts alarming. But open-minded readers who are willing to heed his well-informed advice will find it illuminating, beneficial, and profitable.

Against the Herd shows you how to profit by bucking conventional wisdom and what to do to get ready when situations call for contrarian investing.

Members Reviews:

Written in 2011, but prescient on many levels

This is a listenable book with many thought-provoking passages. The world the author foresaw in 2011 has of course not perfectly materialized, but I was startled how often he was right. If the author had turned out perfectly right, I would have to chalk it up to a substantial measure of luck (since nobody knows the future, and nobody who knew the future would be a TV commentator or schlepping books; he would be the richest person on the planet).

The one-star audible reviewer obviously missed the point, as indicated by his short-swing (and wrong for now) view of gold's ascendency (which was already wrong when that review was written). My approach to investing is much like this author's, with a macro focus and pretty long term view. I see this book as more "teaching how to fish" (i.e., think) than simply handing me a serving of fish (a one-time set of"hot tips.") This book satisfies my approach of developing a sound underlying method of portfolio allocation, KNOWING that some of my assumptions (and anyone's, outside of pure luck) will not be proven true. And yes, some of the conclusions I don't agree with -- I would hope. Yes, some asset classes have swung wide of where the author expected, counseling a rethinking of some of the recommendations. But that is easy to do.

A problem with any dated product is getting the right frame of mind to benefit from it. For example, many ground-breaking films don't seem so great on a re-watching, often precisely because they have been so widely imitated and refined upon. So, a need is there to rewind and think of the work in terms of the time it was created. I found this exercise easy here, and was pleased to check the author's prognostications against the (limited) record since then. Indeed, many contrarian ideas voiced by this author are more mainstream now than they were in 2011. (That would seem to be the point of contrarian thinking: seeing things others do not, which later materialize in a wider recognition as true. That is how the investor makes a profit, and isn't that why we are here? Under these sorts of tests, the book comes out strong.

As for the pop-culture and other cultural references, I found them entertaining.

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Title: The New American Millionaires

Subtitle: Secrets the Self-Made Millionaires Use to Achieve Massive Levels of Success

Author: Ken Odiwe

Narrator: Kevin Pierce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-13

Publisher: David L Hancock

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

Following in the rich tradition of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, Dr. Ken Odiwé, himself a rags to riches New American Millionaire, continues to explore the secrets that self-made millionaires share.

As you will soon discover, many self-made millionaires started out with much less than you have. In fact, the interesting people you will meet here came to America with nothing more than a few meagre belongings, a few bucks in their pockets, and a burning desire to succeed.

They are affectionately called the New American Millionaires by Dr. Ken.

Some of them you will be familiar with already although you may not be aware of their early struggles. People like Jerry Yang of Yahoo fame, Elon Musk who revolutionized online purchasing with Paypal, Andrew Grove, co-founder of computer chip giant Intel, and Sergey Brin, cofounder of the world's premiere search engine giant, Google.

Others you will learn from include people such as Vinod Khosla, Ric Fulop, Henry Wong, Masoud Kermani, Gershon Mader, Saeed Amidi, Naren Gupta, and many others.

In The New American Millionaires you will explore the mysteries of becoming a millionaire as you follow the path laid out for you by these New American Millionaires, the inner qualities and mindset of such wunderkinds, the 11 Success Traits they have in common, the sound logic behind the New American Millionaire-Model and the paint-by-the-numbers tips to creating your own financial Tipping Point.

Dr. Ken's shoot from the hip' no nonsense style gives you the nuts and bolts tactics and strategies you need to get started on the road to becoming a successful millionaire entrepreneur in the 21st century. What this offers you is a key to unlock a bright new future for yourself.

Dr. Ken has 3 value-packed gifts waiting for you at www.milliondollarsuccessinstitute.com

Members Reviews:

Finding The Entrepreneurial Mindset

The value you gain from this book will depend to a large extent on where you are in your entrepreneurial journey. One of the major benefits of this book is that Dr. Odiwe shares the many struggles of his own journey from broke foreign student living out of his automobile to very successful businessman. The primary reason for his success was his resourcefulness and determination - he was not willing to give up on his dream.

Dr. Odiwe provides many valuable lessons for success in The New American Millionaires. Unfortunately too many native Americans simply do not have the determination to do whatever it takes so long as it is legal and ethical to achieve success. We are too accustomed to having all the good things in life that we are not willing to do without long enough to achieve success as an entrepreneur.

As with so many who migrate to the United States, Dr. Odiwe came with a dream and although he thought about giving up many times, he somehow found the will to continue the journey. It was not always easy. But by keeping his dreams alive, he eventually achieved far more than he had dreamed about.

If you are just starting out on your entrepreneurial journey, this book will give you lots of practical advice about preserving your money, finding resources - time, money and mentors and sticking with it until you achieve what you want.

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Title: How to Flip Houses for Profit in Today's Economy

Author: Sam Page

Narrator: Sam Page

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-13

Publisher: Tipping Point SEO

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

Flipping houses for profit is something anyone with the right amount of dedication and knowledge can do. For many professional real estate flippers, they got their education the expensive way, failure. In How to Flip Houses for Profit in Today's Economy, we eliminate the expensive lessons and give you insight on how to effectively flip houses for profit.

Written by a professional real estate investor and flipper, How to Flip Houses for Profit in Today's Economy is different than the other real estate investment books out there. It takes you through the details in a concise, easy to read manual.

In this audiobook, you'll learn about:

Intro: Basically, to flip a house means to buy it first and then resell it at a profit. Say, you buy a HUD repo, without even having to pay an initial deposit. You live in it for while, repair and paint it to earn a profit that enables you to buy a second house by paying cash. Fix this house to make it look real good and sell it for a handsome profit so that it can be reinvested in a third house! That's what flipping is all about and your profits could roll in within months.

Your secret for continued success lies in the fact that you have to locate houses requiring cosmetic work only and not structural repairs that cost more. If you can manage to repaint it yourself and update its lighting, plumbing and carpeting at minimum cost, your profits on selling it are definitely going to soar. There's no start-up money involved in this business and the sausage, as they say, fries in its own fat! You can avail various loans to get started and will also receive help from sellers about the closing costs. Just apply a bit of design psychology to make your home look better and you will never have trouble finding a buyer who's willing to pay more.

Members Reviews:

You suck

Boom was boring and boiler plate stuff get a narrator that doesnt stumble and mumble.

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Title: Outperform

Subtitle: Inside the Investment Strategy of Billion Dollar Endowments

Author: John Baschab, Jon Piot

Narrator: Ken Maxon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

Even if you've heard almost every investment book there is, you've never heard anything like Outperform: Inside the Investment Strategy of Billion Dollar Endowments.

In Outperform, authors John Baschab and Jon Piot have written an approachable, pragmatic guide for individual investors who want to understand the proven investment strategies of large academic endowments and enhance the performance of their portfolios. It provides a unique look into the world of endowment investing through extensive and exclusive interviews with current and former Chief Investment Officers of leading endowments at both public and private universities - such as the Ohio State University, University of Texas, Cornell University, and Emory University - that have a total of over $125 billion in assets under management.

Members Reviews:

I kept waiting for them to actually say something

I finally gave up waiting for them to actually say how anyone thinks about investing, or why, or how when I realized the best I was going to get was some stale process about how they pretend to think about their investments. The most valuable thing in the whole book was them reading aloud the table of the AUM of each endowment.

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Title: MarketPsych

Subtitle: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity

Author: Richard L. Peterson, Frank F. Murtha

Narrator: Mark Moseley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

An investor's guide to understanding the most elusive (yet most important) aspect of successful investing - yourself...

Why is it that the investing performance of so many smart people reliably and predictably falls short? The answer is not that they know too little about the markets. In fact, they know too little about themselves.

Combining the latest findings from the academic fields of behavioral finance and experimental psychology with the down-and-dirty real-world wisdom of successful investors, Drs. Richard Peterson and Frank Murtha guide both new and experienced investors through the psychological learning process necessary to achieve their financial goals.

In an easy and entertaining style that masks the books scientific rigor, the authors make complex scientific insights readily understandable and actionable, shattering a number of investing myths along the way. You will gain understanding of your true investing motivations, learn to avoid the unseen forces that subvert your performance, and build your investor identity - the foundation for long-lasting investing success.

Replete with humorous games, insightful self-assessments, entertaining exercises, and concrete planning tools, this audiobook goes beyond mere education. MarketPsych: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity functions as a psychological outfitter for your unique investing journey, providing the tools, training and equipment to help you navigate the right paths, stay on them, and see your journey through to success.

Members Reviews:

A Must-Have Resource for Every Investor!

Great book on realizing that we individual investors at certain times when the market is overreacting should be doing the exact opposite of what the market (i..e.,big institutions) and our emotions tell us. For example, when everyone is selling, fear rules the day (i.e., everyone and their mother is panicking), and stock prices are plummeting, we should at some point be BUYING, not selling!

On the other hand, when everyone is buying and greed rules, we should be selling and taking profits! It's almost as if Warren Buffet, the greatest investor of all time, wrote this book! A MUST READ for beginning or seasoned investors! Now I don't let my emotions dictate my decisions to buy or sell, thank God! I sell into rallies, and then have money when corrections come, so I can buy stocks at a discount to their fair value! ALWAYS REMEMBER, MR. MARKET ISN'T RATIONAL AT TIMES, AND AT THOSE TIMES WE CAN SELL OVER-PRICED STOCKS AND BUY UNDER-PRICED STOCKS IF OUR EMOTIONS DON'T OVERRULE COMMON SENSE!

The Book I Wish I Read 15 Years Ago

If I read this book when I started investing instead of this year, I expect that I would be hundreds of thousands of dollars better off today than I am. None of the books I've encountered before this one helped me correctly identify the behavior that was sabotaging my performance.

In practical terms, I have never had a problem accepting loses quickly, but I always had a problem holding onto winners. I had always assumed that I was simply risk averse or humble enough to take a small profit.

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Title: Dice Have No Memory: Big Bets and Bad Economics from Paris to the Pampas

Author: Will Bonner

Narrator: Will Bonner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

Right now, Congress, the Fed, and the Treasury are all gambling with your future and your money. And it's contagious. Economies around the globe are suffering from the biggest multitrillion-dollar bets ever wagered on big governments and miraculous financial interventions in pretend "free markets." One man saw it all coming and told his readers well in advance of today's crisis. Bill Bonner reports on the true health and well-being of the world's largest economy to over half a million readers each day in The Daily Reckoning. His newsletter is to the mainstream financial press what the Gnostic Gospels are to the King James Bible. Back in 2000, Bill Bonner sounded like a prophet crying in the wilderness. While everyone scrambled to purchase shares of the latest and hottest dot-com, Bill announced his Trade of the Decade: Sell dollars, buy gold. Back in 2000, you could get an ounce for around $264. Today, you could pay as much as $1,400 for that same ounce. Finally, some of Bonner's best pronouncements, predictions, and profitable analysis are collected in one place. Dice Have No Memory gathers Bonner's richest insights from August 1999 through November 2010 to form a chronological narrative of economics in America. Here's a fraction of what you'll find inside:

Members Reviews:

"Exiles from everywhere, and nearly everything."

Bill Bonner continues his long career of successful and I am sure profitable writing. This is a selection of some of his "greatest hits" from his daily newsletter "The Daily Reckoning". I for one try to read his newsletter every day and almost always enjoy the sensible and pithy content. As Mr. Bonner and the rest of the contributors at Agora Publishing frequently point out, The Daily Reckoning is a free publication, so I have no problem at all with putting up with the constant marketing barrage from his publishing house that comes with giving them your email address. I've bought most of his other books (The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble (Agora Series);Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series);Financial Reckoning Day Fallout: Surviving Today's Global Depression (Agora Series)) and even temporarily subscribed to one or two of the Agora paid newsletter services.

Whatever Bill Bonner and his contributors write is well worth the money, whether free or paid for: I thoroughly enjoy all of their work.

Mr. Bonner writes well: he is always lucid, articulate and controversial. There are no sacred cows for this man, and some of his hits truly strike the bulls right in the eye:

"In fact, the war on terror is hardly a political war at all--but a campaign designed to protect the flanks of the great financial empire. If it were discovered that it diminished consumer spending or raised mortgage rates, for example, it would be stopped tomorrow."

Or, try this on for size:

"The nice thing about elections is that they represent a sort of imperfect progress. Political regimes are voted in and voted out. They are not necessarily any better than those chosen by other means--but at least the regime change is achieved without violence.

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Title: The Era of Uncertainty

Subtitle: Global Investment Strategies for Inflation, Deflation, and the Middle Ground

Author: Francois Trahan, Katherine Krantz

Narrator: Jason Watt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

The economic crisis has placed the business cycle back in the spotlight, but as individual investors and financial professionals start the arduous task of portfolio building and rebuilding, the greatest danger they face is relying too much on the past for guidance when the future may look very different.

No one can say for certain what our economic future will look like. What investors can do is prepare. The Era of Uncertainty provides a new way of thinking about investing in a dynamic, macro-driven world, examining the importance of macroeconomic perspectives in a global economy rife with instability. This book presents a framework for using big-picture investment strategies to profit from the interwoven inflationary and deflationary scenarios likely to evolve in the coming years.

Written by FranÇois Trahan, former Chief Investment Strategist of Bear Stearns and one of the first strategists to warn about the housing bubble before it burst, and Katherine Krantz of Miracle Mile Advisors, The Era of Uncertainty addresses the likely causes and consequences of each possible scenario, offering investment strategies to profit from each potential outcome. Drawing on experiences derived from previous credit-driven deleveraging cycles and containing insights into the financial future, the book marks an important step for macroeconomics in the post-recession financial world.

A practical resource for anyone who intends to succeed in today's environment, The Era of Uncertainty shows what it will take to make it in such a dramatically altered market, and how to incorporate macro strategies into everyday investment endeavors in order to achieve lasting success, no matter what lies ahead.

Members Reviews:

First Level Thinking

What would have made The Era of Uncertainty better?

Famed investor Howard Marks refers to "first level thinking" as the obvious- what everyone sees. It is obvious and unsophisticated. This book encourages simplistic first-level textbook driven macroeconomics. And it is particularly not worth anyone's time since it really doesn't offer any useful strategies, only vague warnings.The author's owe anyone who took their warnings and ideas at face value their money back and then some. Nearly everything predicted in this book turned out wrong. We're still waiting for inflation, the dollar is at new highs, gold, oil and commodities are down.

Would you ever listen to anything by Francois Trahan and Katherine Krantz again?

Probably not but I'd love to know what rationalizations they are using to comfort themselves with? I'd read their explanation of how they could be so ruinously wrong.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Pronounce finance words/terms correctly, like REIT is "reet" not "right".

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Title: Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business

Author: Thor Muller, Lane Becker

Narrator: Ax Norman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:

A guide to getting luck on your side.

As the pace of change accelerates and the volume of information explodes, we're under great pressure to connect just in time with the people and ideas we need to thrive. But we can no longer plan our way to successthere will always be factors beyond our control. This uncertainty, however, cultivates one of today's key drivers of success: serendipity. More than blind luck, serendipity can produce quantifiable results: breakthrough ideas, relationships that matter, effortless cooperation, synchronized market timing, and more. Get Lucky shows businesses how to succeed by fostering the conditions for serendipity to occur early and often.

Planned serendipity is not an abstract, magical notion, but a practical skill. Get Lucky is the indispensable resource for anyone who wants to learn this skill and to make serendipity work for them.

Members Reviews:

The distilled wisdom of entrepreneurs

I've been "lucky" in many aspects of life, one of the most rewarding of which has been to work for, as an employee or independent consultant, some wonderfully creative and successful businesses. I've worked for startup companies that have grown from one-person shops to become renowned global enterprises with hundreds of employees. I've worked for self-made business owners who did not let their upbringings in humble circumstances prevent them becoming multimillionaires.

I've seen firsthand many characteristics of successful business people including extraordinary intelligence, mental flexibility that rapidly adapts to changing business conditions, highly specialized knowledge of a particular industrial or commercial niche, a love of their field of endeavor, absolute confidence in themselves and the products and services they provide, a spirit of fairness, positive expectations, a passion for excellence, and the ability to instill these qualities in a team of employees through inspired leadership.

If you break it down to the "nth degree" there are thousands of traits that work together to create a successful business. Maybe that's why there are thousands of business books that explain them. But there's one more aspect of business that doesn't get talked about a lot, and that's "serendipity." Authors Thor Muller and Lane Becker define "serendipity" as:

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The best kind of luck--that creative force known as serendipity--is the luck that we attract to ourselves. To explain how planned serendipity works, we need to start with our own simple definition of serendipity, which we'll use from this point forward: serendipity is chance interacting with creativity.

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Decades ago I heard a self-made millionaire who had risen from very humble circumstances explain it that way. He said, "Eighty percent of our product lines don't sell. Twenty percent make us our profits. We never know beforehand what's going to sell and what isn't. We capitalize on the serendipity of discovering products that appeal to our customers and then concentrating our efforts behind them."

I think he was making the point that he could only manage the inputs and the outputs of the business to a limited degree. This was a fashion business, and fashions are impossible to predict ahead of time.