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Friday, October 9, 2009

Kindle Bargain Ebook Roundup - Finance/Money

Young Bucks: How to Raise a Future Millionaire ($4.93), by Troy Dunn

Book Description
Young Bucks: How to Raise a Future Millionaire is on the cusp of an important new way of understanding how we earn, keep, and spend money. It is a straightforward, practical, and entertaining manual that debunks a number of parenting myths that work against financial independence, such as allowances. This book also teaches parents how to identify the entrepreneurial skills that, to some degree, every child has and guides them to strengthen those skills. A self-made millionaire and father of seven, Troy Dunn gives you practical templates for easy, kid-friendly businesses that you can introduce to your children so that they can start earning their own money quickly. Young Buck$ includes everything Dunn has learned during his very successful business career as an entrepreneur and in his work with thousands of young people seeking business guidance. It features chapters on age-appropriate, step-by-step action plans for you to help your children find and implement great money-making ideas. Additional chapters explain what schemes you should avoid, how to spot business scams, why lotteries are a terrible place to put your money, why it's good for kids to invest in the stock market, and practical advice on the legal aspects of owning a business.

20/20 Money: See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros ($4.52), by Michael Hanson

Book Description
To truly outperform today's markets, you need to see the investment landscape clearly. 20/20 Money—the latest title from Fisher Investments Press—can help you achieve this goal.

Designed to make you think differently about your investing choices, this reliable resource addresses new ideas and challenges widely held conventions. With 20/20 Money as your guide, you'll quickly learn how gaining a firm understanding of various concepts—from stock market and systems theory to neuroscience and psychology—can put you in a better position to excel in today's turbulent investment arena. Along the way, you'll also discover some of the most successful strategies for thinking and learning, and how they can improve your overall investment endeavors.

To better protect your portfolio and increase opportunities for superior long-term returns, you have to have the discipline to make tough choices—choices that may not always be in line with others. But with the approach outlined throughout these pages, you can gain the vision to make the most informed investment decisions possible and help improve your long-term results.


Get Real, Get Rich ($3.07), by Farrah Gray

Book Description
Raised in the impoverished South Side of Chicago, Farrah Gray defied the odds and became a self-made millionaire by the age of fourteen. His success is due, in part, to his emphatic rejection of the most pervasive lies about what it takes to succeed. In Get Real, Get Rich, Dr. Gray debunks seven common myths that people perceive as barriers to achieving their goals, in chapters such as The Born Lucky Lie, The Money Lie, and The Work Hard Lie. Listeners are presented with a new way to think about the road to wealth, as well as practical strategies they can use to propel themselves toward success.

Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution ($2.37), by Tobin Smith

Book Description
Most Americans have no clue how quickly our internal supplies are crumbling. Tobin Smith will give you the facts and forecasts on growth in the "green investing front" and let you see for yourself just how large this opportunity is - right now and for years to come. This is the fastest growing sector - 13-fold over the next decade! Clean UP will show you how to make a small fortune now from "bridge green technologies," closing the gap between traditional and alternative fuels. Smith will also introduce you to a number of segments of the green investing world--taking you inside these agents of change and detail 8 to 10 companies who are real growth stocks with investment profit potential. This book is for anyone interested in investing in the companies that will make billions from the solutions to the billion-dollar problems in the green technology space.

$700 Billion Bailout: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and What It Means to You, Your Money, Your Mortgage and Your Taxes ($1.35), by Paul Muolo

Book Description
The book is an analysis of the controversial Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and explains in easy to understand language what the bailout bill means for individuals. $700 Billion Bailout answers questions such as:

* What does the bill say, exactly?
* Who is making decisions about how the $700 billion will be spent, and what does it mean now that the government is investing directly in our banks?
* Who’s footing the bill?
* What is the impact on homeowners, businesses, retirement, and taxes?
* Where do I put my money in the meantime?

Veteran reporter Paul Muolo shows both the challenges and opportunities of the credit crisis and proposed bailout.