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When sticking to your budget starts to pay off, you will have a monthly surplus. Soon you will see your savings start to grow. Your debt will start to dwindle. And you’ll notice you’re still able to do the things you love!

Within this 50 page guide, “How To Set Up A Family Budget,” You will know exactly what you need to do to turn past money-management mistakes upside down. You’ll discover tricks, tips, and techniques for putting yourself on the fast track to financial security.

Here is just SOME of the information you will find inside:

The secret to why we can spend, spend, spend – and never know where the money went.

How to sit down with bank statements, checking accounts, stock portfolio’s and a list of assets to find out your true financial status.

7 types of assets that have real value – that you may not know to include as part of your self worth.

Why this guide is different than other “budgeting” books.

5 main categories of spending that your budget will allow.

9 defenses of budgeting to tell your partner if they need convincing.

26 simple tricks to help you keep to your budget (without grinding your teeth).

12 reasons why starting a family budget will empower you like never before.

Common reasons why budgets fail. Know what to look out for and you’ll avoid these budget busters

What most financial advisors will tell you to keep motivated. Hint: It involves something good for you.

Why it’s important to set one main goal.

11 successful characteristics of a family budget that you may want to make sure your budget has (if you want to turn your life around for the better).

5 step-by-step actions to take on your way from financial mess to pillar of (wealthy) success.

13 common expenses that you may forget to add to your budget if you’re not careful.

6 categories to separate your payment information into.

What to do if your expenses total more than your income.

How to handle your paycheck strategically to make sure your bills get paid. Hint: This trick is so good, you won’t notice how responsible you are being.

Why it’s important to splurge every once in a while.

What does fiscal awareness mean? And why is it the first technique you should start applying.

The 17 rules to family budgeting. Print these out and post them on your refrigerator.

10 important processes creating a budget must provide for.

11 secrets to budgeting found deep within the world wide web.

14 secret weapons for stopping the reach to your purse or wallet. Tried and tested, these are guaranteed to cut down your spending.

11 steps to changing your attitude towards money and turning yourself into a saver instead of a spender (with some fun exceptions).

The secret to overcoming unforeseen obstacles.

10 reasons to stop spending now. (Or else it might be too late.)

Why you must confront your debt now – and how to do it painlessly.

12 steps for curbing your debt.

11 dynamite ways to have fun with little to no money. You may have forgotten about these.

25 final thoughts of wisdom on family budgeting to keep you moving forward in a positive. ... Read more

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And let me tell you it feels good. No matter what you’re financial situation. Sitting down and figuring out exactly where you stand. How much money you owe. How much money you need to save up each month. How much money you get to spend each month.

Just putting it all down on paper lets you leave the stress behind you. And in the next hour or so, I’m going to show you how to do exactly that…

Give Me 50 Minutes And I’ll Have You On The Fast Track To A Family Budget That Erases Debt, Starts Piling Up The Savings, And Leaves You With Enough Left Over To Hit Disneyland With The Kids.

The relief is almost instant when you create a family budget. But you know what the best part is?

When sticking to your budget starts to pay off. Soon you will have a monthly surplus. Soon you will see your savings start to grow. Your debt will start to dwindle. And you’ll notice you’re still able to do the things you love!
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4. Do you own every new gadget before it has time to collect dust on a retailer’s shelf?

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In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape - which launched the Information Age - and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1 trillion healthcare industry on its head.

Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat - not just an ordinary yacht, but the world's largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. Clark claims he will be able to sail it via computer from his desk in San Francisco, and the new code may contain the seeds of his next billion-dollar coup.

On the wings of Lewis' celebrated storytelling, the listener takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Clark tries to persuade the investment bankers that Healtheon IS the new Microsoft; we get queasy as Clark pits his boat against the rage of the North Atlantic in winter. And in every brilliant anecdote and character sketch, Lewis is drawing us a map of markets and free enterprise in the twenty-first century.Amazon.com Review
Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark,the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn healthcare on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vastmajority of the industry's transactions online. So why was he spendingso much time on a computerized yacht, each feature installed because,as one technician put it, "someone saw it on Star Trek andwanted one just like it?"

Much of The New New Thing, to be fair, is devoted to theHealtheon story. It's just that Jim Clark doesn't do startups the waymost people do. "He had ceased to be a businessman," as Lewis puts it,"and become a conceptual artist." After coming up with the basic ideafor Healtheon, securing the initial seed money, and hiring the peopleto make it happen, Clark concentrated on the building ofHyperion, a sailboat with a 197-foot mast, whose functions arecontrolled by 25 SGI workstations (a boat that, if he wanted to, Clarkcould log onto and steer--from anywhere in the world). Keeping up withClark proves a monumental challenge--"you didn't interact with him,"Lewis notes, "so much as hitch a ride on the back of his life"--butone that the author rises to meet with the same frenetic energy andhumor of his previous books, Liar's Poker andTrail Fever.

Like those two books, The New New Thing shows how the pursuitof power at its highest levels can lead to the very edges of thesurreal, as when Clark tries to fill out an investment profile for aSwiss bank, where he intends to deposit less than .05 percent of hisfinancial assets. When asked to assess his attitude toward financialrisk, Clark searches in vain for the category of "people who sought toturn ten million dollars into one billion in a few months" and finallytells the banker, "I think this is for a different ... person." Therehave been a lot of profiles of Silicon Valley companies and theway they've revamped the economy in the 1990s--The New NewThing is one of the first books fully to depict the sort of manthat has made such companies possible. --Ron Hogan ... Read more

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Hello McFly! - Biff Tannen would have been better off with this book than with the Sports Almanac
It is hard to fathom Jim Clark, whom this book is really about, lead three different Billion Dollar companies: Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon (WebMD). He and his companies are the focus of this book. The author also gives a heck of a review of the crazy times that were the late 1990s in technology but as well as the stock market. I think Biff Tannen (you know Biff from Back to the Future) would have been better off with this book than his Sports Almanac. Imagine knowing the exact companies to pick in the stock market during the tech stock bubble. Not only that but when to take your money off the table and out of the market.

After having read first Moneyball, then the Blindside it was wired to go backwards and read one of Michael Lewis's earlier works. He has certainly improved as time has gone forward. This book seemed a bit more raw, and less polished than his later works. It was nice to walk through the time line of the internet bubble again and think back to when the most legally created money was happening in history. Again this is why I think Biff would have been better off with this than the almanac from Back to the Future. Our good friend Biff probably would have had a hard time finding his way to Vegas to make a legal bet. Just as in the line from the book "Change leads to wealth and wealth means money", in Biff's case or Jim Clark's.

It was shocking to find out the main reason Clark pushed for the Netscape IPO was to finance his boat. In fact the story of the boat he built felt really disjointed but they do tie together Silicon Valley and starting up companies with building a computerized yacht. I really despise the fact Jim created myCFO. To create yet another company after he has already start 3 with such a simple concept is irritating to us mere mortals.

I would say only three groups of people would enjoy this book:

1. Michael Lewis Fans
2. Tech nerds who want to hear the inside story of SGI and Netscape
3. People from the valley who want to recall the gold old days

Other than those groups you can probably skip this one. Well, that is unless you have a time machine and want to make some serious money in the stock market.

GREAT WRITER -- ENLIGHTENING PERSPECTIVE
One of my favorite writers, Lewis makes the deep, dark secretive world of money matters comprehensible.Even to me.
And he does it with humor, too.

Another great book by Michael Lewis
I read this book because I am a fan of Michael Lewis, and I enjoyed reading Liar's Poker and Moneyball. This book is about Jim Clark and Silicon Valley. Clark was an unsuccessful college professor who founded three billion-dollar companies: Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon. I personally liked the part about Silicon Valley. I found it very educational to learn how an idea can be taken from scratch and at the end sold in the public markets through an IPO. After reading this book, people who are constantly chasing the next hot IPOs may wake up and realize that most of the money has already been made by the founders, venture capitalists, and investment bankers, before leftovers are served for the public.

- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market

Not a bad read, although nothing spectacular
One has to remember that this book was written during the burst of the Internet bubble.At that time, the general view is that the Internet bubble were purely speculative and would not have any lasting impact.Michael Lewis went against the conventional wisdom at the time and described in a series of tales the transformational powers of the web still being played out.The stories did not quite make a coherent whole.However, the observations were relevant.

In terms of writing, this book does not compare favorably to the master piece "Liar's Poker."Therefore, I give it a 3 star.

The Boat
It's all about the boat. Here, Michael Lewis follows the career of Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics (now SGI), Netscape (now, well, something else) and then Healtheon (something else again.) Along the way Clark makes a zillion dollars and gets investment money as easily as turning on a tap. Although this book is quite old now (in terms of Internet years) the same basic lessons seem to be applicable in today's (well, until 2008s crash anyway) environment. That is, (a) suffer from ADD (or is it ADHD?), and know when to spin the message way beyond hyperbole. Clark comes across as a super-intelligent hyperactive child. Had he been 15 years old, he'd have been put on a cocktail of drugs and told to sit in the corner and be quiet. Instead he's given hundreds of millions of dollars of investors money on business plans and ideas written on what feels like restaurant napkins. Lewis, the writer, seems to be dragged along for the ride hanging on for dear life.
Reading it now, after the IT crash of 2001 and the General Collapse of 2008, I have no pity for how any of those people might be suffering now. They had the very, very high life. Clark however doesn't forget the small people who have helped him along the way and makes sure that stock options are given out to those slaving over the hot keyboards.
All through the book though, Clark's dream of owning the biggest sail boat ever holds the story together and act as a message of the size of the plans Clark has. And how no matter how big Clark sees or wants something, there are still physical laws that limit him. One thinks that if Clark could rewrite the laws of the universe, he would. Or at least start a company with investors money to try and do it, float it on the NASDAQ then live off the profits. Until the next New New Thing comes along. ... Read more

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Are you ready to start planning for tomorrow?

The Amazing Secret To Creating A Family Budget That Leads You Out Of Debt, Fills Your Savings Accounts, And Escorts You To Your Next Vacation!

Listen. It hits families all over the world like a punch to the stomach.

You don’t notice it at first, but soon you find yourself living in a paycheck to paycheck world. What you make one month is gone before you have any time to add it to your savings account…

Before you have time to fill your cupboards just one last time (while you wait for your next paycheck)… And definitely before you make any dent on your credit card balance.

Families all over are enslaved by their debt racked up over the years. The burden is immense. You don’t want anyone to know you’re having a hard time making ends meet – especially any kids that might be involved.

You’re afraid to answer the phone. It’s tough to sleep the night through. Life in debt is now a never-ending cycle of anxiety and fear.

How can you stop the seemingly endless cycle? How can you change the way you think about money? And discover financial discipline?

Let me tell you, it’s not too late with my tell-all guide…

How To Properly Set Up A Family Budget!

Greetings Friend,

If you have had financial problems in the past, you can feel relief when you start over with a (realistic) family budget.

Have you ever heard, “The first step is admitting there’s a problem?” You may or may not have a spending problem – but you can’t create a family budget without first being honest with yourself.

And let me tell you it feels good. No matter what you’re financial situation. Sitting down and figuring out exactly where you stand. How much money you owe. How much money you need to save up each month. How much money you get to spend each month.

Just putting it all down on paper lets you leave the stress behind you. And in the next hour or so, I’m going to show you how to do exactly that…

Give Me 50 Minutes And I’ll Have You On The Fast Track To A Family Budget That Erases Debt, Starts Piling Up The Savings, And Leaves You With Enough Left Over To Hit Disneyland With The Kids.

The relief is almost instant when you create a family budget. But you know what the best part is?

When sticking to your budget starts to pay off. Soon you will have a monthly surplus. Soon you will see your savings start to grow. Your debt will start to dwindle. And you’ll notice you’re still able to do the things you love!

Within my 50 page guide, “How To Set Up A Family Budget,” I’ll tell you exactly what you need to do to turn past money-management mistakes upside down. You’ll discover all my tricks, tips, and techniques for putting yourself on the fast track to financial security.

“Are You Ready To Leave Your Financial Problems Behind You?”

How to turn your disorganized financial mess into one empowering family budget (that will leave you with enough money for your next vacation).

There are many things you can do to sabotage your family budget before you even start. (I know, I’ve heard of most all of them.) One thing you can do is to not allow for splurging.

If your budget doesn’t allow for you to spend a few dollars on your self every once in a while – your budget isn’t going to work out. On page 23, I tell you why it’s OK to splurge every once and a while. And most importantly, how to do it responsibly.

Many times people start planning a budget and things are going well. But then they hit an unexpected snag. And BAM. There budget isn’t going to cut it. My guide identifies the most common reasons why your budget may falter so you can see them coming months in advance. Just check out pages 39-40 to make sure your financial stability stays afloat.

On pages 14-15, you’ll find the top 3 budget busters that are the downfall of most family budgets. My guide WILL NOT let you succumb to these avoidable pitfalls! ... Read more

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A budget is basically a money plan, outlining your financial goals. Having a budget, you can well establish and regulate funds, set and achieve your financial objectives, and make advance decisions as to how you want your finances to function well for you.

The main idea in budgeting is for you to put aside a certain amount of money for expected as well as unexpected costs.

Simply put, budgeting means an estimation of monthly home expenses basing it on previous expenses and bills.

The initial step to take in budgeting is to find out how long will your compensation last. Define fixed expenses like car payments, home rental, insurance, etc. Likewise follow up your expenditures thoroughly for a month so you can discover and understand where your funds are going. Through proper determination of your “spending patterns”, you can immediately identify solutions for effective budgeting.

For instance, when you have a steady monthly income of $4,000, you should subtract all your identified monthly bills from that income.

Other bills can be assessed and then subtracted from the amount of your income. The balance that remained after fixed costs can now be your budget in the household. Rather than allocating money for miscellaneous like gas, clothing, entertainment and groceries, financial planning will allow you instead to use proportions or percentages of it.

The strategic solution in order for budgeting to be successful is inflexibility as well as flexibility; there are fixed expenses so payment must be an inflexible factor.

Budgeting will best work when very scarce omissions are made to greater limits. The idea here is to formulate goals and plans, then abide by it as much as you possibly can.

Here are tips on how to budget.....

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Are you ready to start planning for tomorrow?

The Amazing Secret To Creating A Family Budget That Leads You Out Of Debt, Fills Your Savings Accounts, And Escorts You To Your Next Vacation!

Have you ever heard, “The first step is admitting there’s a problem?” You may or may not have a spending problem – but you can’t create a family budget without first being honest with yourself.

Here is just SOME of the information you will find inside:

=> The secret to why we can spend, spend, spend – and never know where the money went. (Page 6)

=> How to sit down with bank statements, checking accounts, stock portfolio’s and a list of assets to find out your true financial status. (Page 7)

=> 7 types of assets that have real value – that you may not know to include as part of your self worth. (Page 8)

=> Why this guide is different than other “budgeting” books. (It has to do with our “hands-on” approach.) (Page 8)

=> 5 main categories of spending that your budget will allow (don’t worry, this should make you happy!) (Pages 9-10)

=> 9 defenses of budgeting to tell your partner if they need convincing. (Page 10)

=> 26 simple tricks to help you keep to your budget (without grinding your teeth). (Pages 11-12)

=> 12 reasons why starting a family budget will empower you like never before (and help you sleep at night). (Pages 13-14)

=> 3 most common reasons why budgets fail. Know what to look out for and you’ll avoid these budget busters. (Pages 14-15)

=> What most financial advisors will tell you to keep motivated. Hint: It involves something good for you. (Page 16)

=> Why it’s important to set one main goal. (Page 17)

=> 11 successful characteristics of a family budget that you may want to make sure your budget has (if you want to turn your life around for the better) (Page 17)

=> 5 step-by-step actions to take on your way from financial mess to pillar of (wealthy) success. (Page 18)

=> 13 common expenses that you may forget to add to your budget if you’re not careful. (Pages 19-20)

=> 6 categories to separate your payment information into (to make sure there aren’t any unexpected bills that could bust your budget) (Page 21)

=> What to do if your expenses total more than your income. (Pages 21-22)

=> How to handle your paycheck strategically to make sure your bills get paid. Hint: This trick is so good, you won’t notice how responsible you are being. (Page 23)

=> Why it’s important to splurge every once in a while. (Page 23)

=> What does fiscal awareness mean? And why is it the first technique you should start applying. (Page 25)

=> The 17 rules to family budgeting. Print these out and post them on your refrigerator. (Pages 26-28)

=> 10 important processes creating a budget must provide for. (Page 30)

=> 11 secrets to budgeting found deep within the world wide web. (Pages 31-33)

=> 14 secret weapons for stopping the reach to your purse or wallet. Tried and tested, these are guaranteed to cut down your spending. (Pages 33-35)

=> 11 steps to changing your attitude towards money and turning yourself into a saver instead of a spender (with some fun exceptions). (Pages 37-38)

=> The secret to overcoming unforeseen obstacles. (Pages 39-40)

=> 10 reasons to stop spending now. (Or else it might be too late.) (Pages 41-42)

=> Why you must confront your debt now – and how to do it painlessly. (Pages 43-44)

=> 12 steps for curbing your debt. (Page 44)

=> 11 dynamite ways to have fun with little to no money. You may have forgotten about these. (Page 45)

=> 25 final thoughts of wisdom on family budgeting to keep you moving forward in a positive (financially free) future. (Pages 46-50)

And there’s MUCH more ... Read more

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If you have had financial problems in the past, you can feel relief when you start over with a (realistic) family budget.

Have you ever heard, “The first step is admitting there’s a problem?” You may or may not have a spending problem – but you can’t create a family budget without first being honest with yourself.

Are You Ready To Leave Your Financial Problems Behind You?

How to turn your disorganized financial mess into one empowering family budget (that will leave you with enough money for your next vacation).

There are many things you can do to sabotage your family budget before you even start. (I know, I’ve heard of most all of them.) One thing you can do is to not allow for splurging.

If you have financial goals that need to be met – whether it’s getting out of debt or putting some money away, my guide will tell you how to realistically set up a budget to do just that.
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The issue of family budget can be a confusing one, especially owing to the soaring cost of living that now poses a challenge to families all over the world. The eBook “Family Budget … Demystified!” is the answer to your prayer. Each of its 84 pages presents excellent tips on how each family member can help cut costs and live within the budget. You can soon put aside your financial worries. ... Read more

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For the geek who's an investor, and the investor who's ageek, we present Online Investing Hacks, 100industrial-strength, bleeding edge tips, tools andtechniques for analyzing and managing online portfolios.

Individual investors have become more computer-literate andtechnology-dependent than ever before.Whether you'relooking for suitable investments, studying alternatives, ormanaging your portfolios, you need data.The Internet canbe a goldmine of financial data and research, but today'sonline investors also use spreadsheets, databases, andfinancial applications to select, study and manageinvestments.If your proficiency has grown to the pointwhere you crave industrial-strength tips and tools toturbo-charge your efforts, this is the book for you.

Online Investing Hacks covers:
Screening Investments
Collecting Data
Fundamental Analysis
Technical Analysis
Executing Trades
Investing in Mutual Funds
Portfolio Management
Updating Stock Data
Financial Planning

Other books for managing online investing are either out ofdate, are for beginners and don't go beyond the most basicadvice, or are so dull and boring they squeeze that last bitof fun out of the topic.Online Investing Hacks is for thecustomer who wants to know the latest techniques, to gobeyond the basics, who gets jazzed by cool online tools andservices, and who actually wants to have a bit of fun whiletrying to strike it rich (or at least not lose their shirt). ... Read more

Customer Reviews (9)

good information sources
This book is clearly written and user friendly. Biafore gives links to information sources, making it easy for the reader to get more information on each of the hacks. These links alone are worth the price of the book.

Good book, useful tools, beginner thru expert
I've been trading for over twenty years, including a period as a floor trader on the Chicago Board of Trade.Even with that experience there are tips and tricks in this book I found useful to the point where I employ them daily. To be complete as a reviewer I will say there is a lot of pretty basic stuff from my point of view, but still well worth reviewing since some of it I had forgotten.

Well written, easy reading, well organized

This book can pay for itself very quickly...
Online Investing Hacks by Bonnie Biafore (O'Reilly) is one of those books that can pay for itself in short order, as well as over and over.

Chapter list:Screening Investments; Hacking Excel for Financial Analysis; Collecting Financial Data; Analyzing Company Fundamentals; Technical Analysis; Executing Trades; Investing in Mutual Funds; Managing Your Portfolio; Financial Planning; Index

I worked at Enron from 1998 through 2001, and spent plenty of time during that dot.com era following my stock portfolio.I watched my Enron stock value go from incredible value to a point where it cost more to sell the stock than it was worth.I won a few bets (face it, that's what they were) on a few dot.coms and lost many more.What could have been an incredible nest egg, isn't.This book would have been a lifesaver if I had read and paid attention to it a few years ago.Biafore shows you how you can analyze and invest wisely using a variety of tools available to everyone.

If you're an Excel user, you'll find it an invaluable tool for analysis.She'll show you how you can use it to create financial charts (#13), calculate compound annual rates of growth (#26), and use rational values to buy and sell wisely (#36).#39 - Spot Hanky Panky with Cash Flow Analysis (using Enron as an example) would have literally saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars had I known about it.Even if you don't care about the investing tips, the hack on downloading data via Excel web queries (#7) was something I didn't know how to do (or that you could even do it!).The book has a little something for everyone.

As with all Hacks titles, you probably won't be interested in every single item.Some may not be applicable to your situation or may be too complex for what you care to handle.But all it would take is one hack to work out and change your investing for this book to pay huge dividends.If you do your own investing, you owe it to yourself to get this book.

Excellent Reference/Resource
Online Investing Hacks is an excellent introduction to the world of investment. Though the title does contain the word 'Online', I would say that the general information the book provides on investing is not limited to the online realm.

Overall, I was very happy with the book, and found it incredibly useful. Though I do have several investments (401K, some stock, mutual funds etc) I would hardly consider myself an authority on the subject. This book provided very detailed explanations and tips on various forms of investment, from CD's to Index funds, and everything in between. While the experienced investor might not glean much from reading this book, anyone just getting started will find it an excellent reference, and resource.

The format of the book is similar to the other books in the 100 * Hacks series published by O'Reilly. There are exactly 100 hacks, or topics, which are spread across 9 chapters. Each one is an individual entity and can be read and understood without reliance on any of the other hacks.

One minor annoyance I had with the book is that it is geared toward those of you who, for some reason or another, run Microsoft's Windows OS, or have access to Microsoft Excel. Luckily, of the Excel examples that I played with, Open Office's Calc program handled them with minimal tweaking.

I can easily recommend this book to anyone who wants to invest, but is unsure of what to invest in, or needs some tips on making the most of preexisting investments. Those of you who enjoy research and building your own stats and graphs will also find parts of this book rather intriguing, as it covers data acquisition and manipulation with Excel in great detail. It will make an excellent addition to my reference shelf, and I have a feeling it will be well thumbed through in a very short time.

Excellent resource for all investors
It seems like everyone is involved in investing in some form or another.While I always felt like I should be investing too, it was never clear to me how to begin this process.After all, it's my money.How can I be sure I'm investing in something that will provide some sort of reasonable return?This book is an excellent resource in answering some of those questions and putting the new investor on the right track.

This book is written in the same format as the other "hacks" series by O'Reilly.This format is very easy to read, and the format makes it very easy to find answers.Rather then having to read the book from cover to cover, the reader can pick out topics they are dealing with, read the answer, and move on.Since many of the people interesting in a book of this nature will likely have little time, the book's format works to its advantage.

The book begins with some basic introduction to the stock market and tips for selecting appropriate stocks or mutual funds.The whole middle section of the book deals with data analysis.The author discusses how to understand a company's balance sheet (e.g. what that P/E ratio means), how to spot companies in financial trouble, how to pick a good stock, and even how to trade.There is also a good discussion on minimizing the effect of taxes on your little return on investment.

The author even goes further and gets into a discussion on financial planning.In addition to discussing debt reduction, the author also talks about IRA plans and different strategies for saving for your child's education expenses.I think my favorite part of this book was the discussion on different education savings plans.The author discusses the ins and outs (as well as tax consequences) of each of the plans, and provides some examples illustrating the fact that it's better to start saving earlier than later.

This is an excellent book, not just for its investing advice, but also for its sound financial planning.This is a great book for anyone who is interested in increasing their wealth, saving for a rainy day, or simply saving for future financial goals.


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