Personal Finance Audiobooks | Business & Economics

Safe Money in Tough Times: Everything You Need to Know to Survive the Financial Crisis

Consumers looking to protect their financial future in today's turbulent economy will find all the right advice in Safe Money in Tough Times. Well-known for conveying sophisticated insight in simple and engaging terms, Jonathan Pond explains how readers can take control of their financial lives, overcome any money problems, and develop an all-weather portfolio to last a lifetime. Pond addresses such issues as avoiding home foreclosure, investing in turbulent markets, and coping with loss of income. Audiences will not only weather the storm but also put themselves in a position to thrive when the economy bounces back. This will be the "go-to" resource for individuals and families who are struggling through the Great Recession.

Jonathan D. Pond (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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Gimme My Money Back: Your Guide to Beating the Financial Crisis

One way or another, you lost money as a direct result of the financial crisis. Now you have to start making it back, and you can do that by listening to this audiobook. This audiobook shows how the markets work and how to be involved, how to calculate personal risk tolerance based on personality, goals, age and years from retirement, how to avoid losing money, and how to use mutual funds, index funds, stocks, ETF’s, bonds, and other investment vehicles to speed up listeners’ own personal recovery. Includes model portfolios to get you started right away. Written by CNN Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi using his trademark user-friendly voice, Gimme My Money Back is a straightforward guide to understanding how we got into the mess we’re in, with concrete, simple, proven steps to get you out of it.

Ali Velshi (Author), Ali Velshi (Narrator)

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Think and Grow Rich 6 of 7

The Mail on Sunday (London) ""...reading this book is bound to inspire you to take a more positive approach to life."" The Sunday Times ""For inspiration, read...'Think and Grow Rich!'....It's the first step to devising a winning strategy."" Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and selfhelp book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from ScottishAmerican businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help individuals do or be almost anything they want in this world. For instance, Jim Murray (sportswriter) wrote that Think and Grow Rich was credited for Ken Norton's boxing upset of Muhammad Ali in 1973. The book was first published in 1937 during the Great Depression. At the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies. It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books a perennial bestseller after 70 years (BusinessWeek Magazine's BestSeller List ranked Think and Grow Rich as the sixth bestselling paperback business book 70 years after it was first published). Think and Grow Rich is listed in John C. Maxwell's A Lifetime Must Read Books List.

Napoleon Hill (Author), Napoleon Hill (Narrator)

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The Law of Rewards: Giving What You Can't Keep to Gain What You Can't Lose

What motivates you? Do you ever long for approval? Would you like to hear someone you love and respect say, “Well done”? Do you yearn for wealth, influence, or pleasures? As Christians, we tend to dismiss these longings as superficial, even sinful. But best-selling author Randy Alcorn explains that God created us with these desires. It’s all part of his incentive plan. In this fascinating look at God’s motivational system, you’ll find out why he wired us for rewards, what kind he offers, and when and how we can claim them. God doesn’t guarantee power or possessions or pleasures in this world, but he promises extravagant rewards in the next. Discover how the way you live and give today determines the way you’ll be rewarded in heaven— for eternity.

Randy Alcorn (Author), Randy Alcorn (Narrator)

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Trusts A Practical Guide Part Seven

Within the genre of financial selfhelp, 'Trusts A Practical Guide' is an invaluable and rare resource for financial experts and members of the public alike who need a reference work on a subject that is, on the face of it, complex but which undeniably affects many people's lives at one point or another. Whatever your occupation or background, you are almost certain at some time to need some understanding of this subject, whether in your own financial planning or in advising those around you - and this guide is particularly helpful when dealing with a relative's probate or the complex issues arising from an inheritance. After thirtyfive years at the top of his profession, FSA member Terry O'Halloran writes passionately and informatively, not only about his subject but also about the importance of spreading the word to others. He has seen many times first hand the benefits of well organized and implemented financial planning on people's lives. More poignantly, he has seen what can happen when such matters are left to chance.

Terence O'Hallorran, Terence O'hallorann, Terence P. O'halloran (Author), Terence O'Hallorran, Terence O'hallorann, Terence P. O'halloran (Narrator)

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Think and Grow Rich 1 of 7

Napoleon Hill (Author), Napoleon Hill (Narrator)

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Living Rich for Less

You really can be rich in every way, every day. So you want to own the home you love, make memories on wonderful vacations with family or friends, finance college educations, and help others too? You can-starting here and now. With lively humor, proven know-how, and practical principles for financial health, Living Rich for Less helps you stretch your dollars to realize the lifestyle of your dreams. Ellie Kay's entertaining and enlightening examples show you simple steps to save, spend, and give smart, and her three main principles are undergirded by dozens of effective rules and hundreds of Cha-Ching Factor™ tips that keep or put money in your pocket. Ellie knows what it's like to be financially-strapped or struggling, wanting to be the Joneses but feeling as poor in spirit as in pocketbook. She went, within two and a half years, from being a new wife and mom with $40,000 in consumer debt and seven children (and college educations) to support, to being completely debt-free and within fifteen years able to pay cash for eleven different cars, give away three of those cars, buy two five-bedroom houses (moving from one to the other) and nicely furnish each, take wonderful vacations, dress her family in fine fashion; and support more than thirty non-profit organizations in more than a dozen different countries, giving away more than $100,000. Isn't that the kind of transformation to a rich life that you want? Living Rich for Less helps anyone get there in our taxed-out, maxed-out times. Because financial security doesn't mean just genuine prosperity, but being able to live luxuriously, give generously, and care for yourself as well as the others around you. Why keep up with the Joneses when you can be them?

Ellie Kay (Author), Cassandra Campbell, Ellie Kay (Narrator)

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Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan

The credit crunch, the stock market freefall, the staggering toll of home foreclosures and job losses: The economic crisis that struck in 2008 has left no one untouched and everybody reeling. Seemingly overnight, the financial landscape has undergone seismic changes that suddenly have you asking all kinds of questions: Are your savings safe? Should you continue to invest in your retirement account? Should you keep your home if it's worth less than what you owe or should you sell it? How do you pay your bills if you've just been laid off? The nation's go-to expert on financial matters, Suze Orman, believes that 2009 is a critical year for your money. There are safeguards to put in place, actions to take, costly mistakes to avoid, and even opportunities to be had, so that you are protected during the bad times and prepared to prosper when things take a turn for the better. No matter what situation you're in, you will find a plan of action and the answers to your questions about: * Credit * Retirement *Savings and Spending*Real Estate *Paying for College* Protecting Your Family SUZE ORMAN'S 2009 ACTION PLAN delivers honest, straightforward guidance-what to do, when to do it, and how to do it-as only Suze Orman can.

Suze Orman (Author), Suze Orman (Narrator)

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A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold

One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity-which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author-you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days. With the proliferation of financial instruments, new areas of instability, and innovative capital market strategies, many economists and investors have lost sight of the fundamentals of the financial system-its strengths as well as its weaknesses. A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold takes you back to the beginning and sorts out all the pieces. Peter Bernstein skillfully addresses how and why commercial banks lend and invest, where money comes from, how it moves from hand to hand, and the critical role of interest rates. He explores the Federal Reserve System and the consequences of the Fed's actions on the overall economy. But this book is not just about the past. Bernstein's novel perspective on gold and the dollar is critical for today's decision makers, as he provides extensive views on the future of money, banking, and gold in the world economy. This illuminating story about the heart of our economic system is essential reading at a time when developments in finance are more important than ever.

Peter L. Bernstein (Author), Sean Pratt (Narrator)

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Think and Grow Rich 5 of 7

Napoleon Hill (Author), Napoleon Hill (Narrator)

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Think and Grow Rich 3 of 7

Napoleon Hill (Author), Napoleon Hill (Narrator)

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Wink and Grow Rich Pt 1

Wink and Grow Rich is the fable of a nine year old boy being raised by his carpenter father who is both sick and tired... In fact, he is tired of being sick and sick of being tired. Every day for the last twenty years the carpenter has visited the Well of Wealth and spent a dollar because it is generally known by the townsfolk that if they give generously to the Well, it will give generously to them in return. On this day, the carpenter is so ill that he is unable to visit the well, so he entrusts his nineyearold son Richard with a crumpled but treasured dollar and sends him in his place. Along the way, Richard discovers that the Well of Wealth is not where he thought it would be - so he follows a different, more overgrown path, on which he meets an old woman, an optometrist, a plumber, a gardener, a fisherman, a rower, a musician and an innkeeper. These intriguing and mysterious characters act as guides for Richard and share their wisdom. They have all built their wealth in very different ways yet there is something about each that is common to all. This fictional tale makes one think more deeply about the dynamics of wealth creation. The keys to wealth are in a story behind a story; a lesson behind the lesson. That means that to find the keys the reader needs to become better at seeing - a philosophy the author sums up as: "What you see is always what you get." Each time the reader reads this book they will take out more keys one by one until finally they unlock the doors to their wealth.

Roger Hamilton (Author), Paul Darn, Roger Hamilton (Narrator)

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