Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Real Estate: The Sustainable Investment

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Real Estate: The Sustainable Investment

Practical Advice for Investing in Income Property

The Best Selling Book Real Estate: The Sustainable Investment offers advice and stories to make the learning curve a bit less steep and measurably safer â€" with proven strategies for reaching long-term investment goals by including small income property in your asset allocation. Sustainable investing for sustainable living and a more secure financial future.

• What type of real estate investment is right for you?
• Making leverage actually work for you.
• How and why to get started now.
• What to look for in a partner before you say “I do.”
• An excellent overview of investment basics.
• Pro Forma Property Analysis Sheets inside and online.
• Insightful management lessons from the real world.
• Critical thinking about your investment timing.
• The first real estate book with its own iPhone app to make property analysis mobile and easy.

Reading this book could be your best investment on the path to intentional success and that decisive moment when investment dreams become investment reality.

From the authors of Real Estate: The Sustainable Investment comes the first of its kind mobile appâ€"Real Estate Analytics. The Five-Star complement to the book is now available for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The Top-Rated book shows you how to make good investments. The app makes analyzing an investment property easy. Now, it’s up to you to find the right property and make the investment. Used together, you have powerful tools to make better decisions.

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The companion website for this book at www.thesustainableinvestment.com offers:

• Free printable versions of the Pro Forma Property Analysis templates featured in the book.
• Answers to frequently asked questions and chapter previews.
• More information about Real Estate Analytics, the free mobile app developed by the authors.


“I’ve been Glen’s partner in numerous real estate investments for over twenty-five yearsâ€"the best investments I ever made. I’ve also been a guest lecturer at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as a guest of the Dean, Dr. John Gordon. I can assure you that if Glen and John get together to write a book on real estate investment strategies for young people, it’s a book I’ll recommend to my children and grandchildren.”â€"William A. Whelan, President, Pope and Talbot, Inc.; President and CEO, Roseburg Lumber, Inc.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

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The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley's most innovative entrepreneurs.

The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over and traditional job security is a thing of the past.  
 
Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today's competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.
 
Why? Start-ups - and the entrepreneurs who run them - are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage.
 
These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today.
 
This book isn't about cover letters or resumes. Instead, you will learn the best practices of Silicon Valley start-ups, and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career. Whether you work for a giant multinational corporation, a small local business, or launching your own venture, you need to know how to:
 
* Adapt your career plans as you change, the people around you change, and industries change.
* Develop a competitive advantage to win the best jobs and opportunities.
* Strengthen your professional network by building powerful alliances and maintaining a diverse mix of relationships. 
* Find the unique breakout opportunities that massively accelerate career growth.
* Take proactive risks to become more resilient to industry tsunamis.
* Tap your network for information and intelligence that help you make smarter decisions.
 
A revolutionary new guide to thriving in today's fractured world of work, the strategies in this book will help you survive and thrive and achieve your boldest professional ambitions. The Start-Up of You empowers you to become the CEO of your career and take control of your future.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

The New Robber Barons

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The New Robber Barons

WITH TRILLIONS ON THE TABLE NOBODY PLAYS FAIR, AND EVERYONE PLAYS FOR KEEPS.

The NEW ROBBER BARONS continues financial expert Janet Tavakoli’s on-going chronicle of the global financial crisis captured in her articles from the September 2008 meltdown through February 2012. Picking up where her previous book, Dear Mr. Buffett, ended, she exposes the criminogenic environment that enabled international oligarchs to solidify power.

In January 2009, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, told Tom Brokaw: “the idea that people that move money around are some favored class…strikes me as getting pretty far away from where we should be.” Two years later he publicly excused apparent insider trading by one of his successor candidates, David Sokol.

Berkshire Hathaway officer Charlie Munger admonished law students that Americans shouldn’t be "bitching about a little bailout."

Shortly before Congress confronted him with Goldman Sachs’s profiteering during the financial crisis, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein quipped he was doing “God’s work.”

CEO Jamie Dimon told shareholders that he didn’t think JPMorgan made a mistake when it came to potential foreclosure fraud: “maybe we’ll have to pay penalties eventually to some of the attorneys general but we really think we should just continue.” Meanwhile the bank scoured 115,000 mortgage affidavits and reserved $1.3 billion for legal costs.

After MF Global’s October 31, 2011, bankruptcy a U.S. Congressman told former CEO Jon Corzine: "You've got thousands of hard working people around this country that feel cheated."

Tavakoli serves up example after stunning international example of no-strings-attached socialization of losses and privatization of gains. In the words of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur: "I believe most of us would call that theft."

COMMENT FROM JANET TAVAKOLI

This is a compilation of articles from September 2008 to the present. The e-book includes the original reference links including links to some of my original public (non-client) analysis. This is unedited so that readers can see my original thought process and ultimate vindication when the truth was eventually revealed by Congressional investigations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Janet Tavakoli is the author of, STRUCTURED FINANCE & COLLATERALIZED DEBT OBLIGATIONS (John Wiley & Sons, 2003, 2008), CREDIT DERIVATIVES (Wiley, 1998, 2001), which revealed grave flaws in the methodology for rating structured financial products and abuses in the credit derivatives markets, and DEAR MR. BUFFETT: WHAT AN INVESTOR LEARNS 1,269 MILES FROM WALL STREET, (Wiley 2009) in which she explains the causes of the greatest credit bubble in the history of the world, how we could have avoided it and how we can prevent it from happening again.

Ms. Tavakoli is the founder president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc. (TSF), a Chicago based consulting firm established in 2003 for clients including financial institutions, institutional investors, and hedge funds..

After more than 22 years of experience structuring, trading and selling derivatives and structured products while working for global Wall Street firms in New York and London, Tavakoli has received industry recognition as a global expert in finance. Ms. Tavakoli is a world renowned author and speaker on derivative products and securities.

Ms. Tavakoli is frequently published and quoted in financial journals including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, New York Times, The Economist, Business Week, Forbes and Fortune,

Frequent television appearances include CBS's 60 Minutes, CNN, C-Span, CNBC, Fox, CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV, and BBC.

Ms. Tavakoli earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. She is a former adjunct associate professor of finance at the Booth School of Business.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Investing Essentials: What You Need to Know (Collection)

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Investing Essentials: What You Need to Know (Collection)

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

If you liked this Short, you might also like Fire Your Stock Analyst!: Analyzing Stocks On Your Own, 2nd Edition (9780137010233) by Harry Domash. Available in print and digital formats.

 

Six short-and-sweet, quick-start investing primers: practical guidance on ETFs, dividend stocks, growth stocks, emerging markets, mutual funds, closed-end funds, and more!

 

Harry Domash's six quick-start investing guides give you crucial information for investing profitably in any market environment. Learn what you need to know, without useless theory or number-crunching that doesn't matter! Includes practical, up-to-the-minute primers on ETFs, emerging markets, dividend stocks, growth stocks, advanced growth stock analysis, and mutual funds/closed-end funds!

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

How To Win Friends and Influence People

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How To Win Friends and Influence People

YOU CAN GO AFTER THE JOB YOU WANT...AND GET IT! YOU CAN TAKE THE JOB YOU HAVE...AND IMPROVE IT! YOU CAN TAKE ANY SITUATION YOU'RE IN...AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU!

For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available as eBook for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century! Learn:

* THREE FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE

* THE SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU

* THE TWELVE WAYS TO WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING

* THE NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT AROUSING RESENTMENT

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Applied Income Model (Personal Investment)

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Applied Income Model (Personal Investment)

Applied Income Model is a turnkey investment strategy that even someone new to investment can easily accomplish. It comes with its own software module where an investor simply plugs in the necessary data and then sits back and watches it do the job for you. It doesn't get any easier than this and this is the exact same program the author uses to make a healthy 5-figure monthly income. This book comes complete with its own software module with a download link inside the book.

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

The ShipIt Journal Five Pack

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The ShipIt Journal Five Pack

A five-pack of the 32 page ShipIt Journal, a workbook designed for groups of people (or individuals) who want to do work that matters.

Share them with your team, fill them out together, surface the issues and then ship.

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