The Money & Finance category has 2,729 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 19,897 ratings. The most-rated is Rich Dad Poor Dad.
Payback Time
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Phil Town's first book, the number-one New York Times best seller Rule #1, was a guide to stock trading for people who believe they lack the knowledge to trade. But because many people arent ready to go from mutual funds directly into trading without understanding investing for the long term, he created Payback Time. Too often, people see long-term investing as mutual-fund contributing - otherwise known as long-term hoping. But the sad truth is that mutual fund investors are, to a stunning degree, pinning their hopes on an institution that is hopeless. It turns out that only 4% of fund managers consistently beat the S&P 500 index over the long term, which means that 96% of fund investors see a smaller return on their nest egg than a chimpanzee who simply buys stocks in the 500 biggest companies in America and watches what happens. But its worse than that. The net effect of hitching your wagon to mutual funds is that over a lifetime theyll fritter away as much 60% of your nest egg in fees. Once you understand how funds engineer this, you'll rush to invest on your own. Payback Time's risk-free approach is called stockpiling and it's how billionaires get rich in bad markets. Its a set of rules for investing (not trading but investing) in the right businesses at the right time -- rules that will ensure you make the big money.
©2010 Phil Town (P)2010 Random House
Behavioral Economics
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Behavioral economics is the study of decision making, and of the related themes of valuation, exchange, and interpersonal interactions. Using methods from psychology, sociology, neurology, and economics, behavioral economics sheds light one of the most fundamental activities of human life:the decision process. In 24 insightful lectures, you'll learn how behavioral economists look at decision making and explore a set of key principles that offer deep insight into how we evaluate information and integrate different factors to make decisions. Most important, using real-life illustrations and case studies, each lecture offers practical tools, so that you can understand the patterns of decision making, the purposes they serve, and how to use your knowledge to make better and more satisfying decisions. In grasping the underlying factors in decision making, you'll explore key topics such as decisions regarding probability, time-related decisions, managing risk, high-stakes medical decisions, and group decision making. Professor Huettel illustrates each concept with meaningful examples, analogies, and case studies, relating the material directly to the decisions all of us make as a central part of living. This unique course gives you essential knowledge and insights for one of life's most important skills. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2014 The Great Courses (P)2014 The Teaching Company, LLC
Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?
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Why do high schools and colleges require students to take courses in English, math and science, yet have absolutely no requirements for students to learn about personal money management? Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School? 99 Personal Money Management Lessons to Live By was initially developed by the author to pass on to his five children as they entered adulthood. As it developed, the author realized that personal money management skills were rarely taught in high schools, colleges, and even in MBA programs. Unfortunately, books on the subject tend to be complicated and lengthy. This book includes eight important lessons focusing on 99 principles that will quickly and memorably enhance any individual's money management acumen. Unlike many of the personal money management books out there, this book is a quick, easily digested listen that focuses more on the qualitative side than the quantitative side of personal money management. These principles are not from a text book. Rather, they are practical principles learned by the author as he navigated through his financial life. Many are unorthodox in order to be memorable and provoke deeper thought by the listener. Not only an excellent graduation gift for high school and college students but also a great book for any adult!
©2015 Simple Strategic Solutions LLC (P)2016 Simple Strategic Solutions LLC
Cradle to Cradle
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"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists. In other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in this provocative book that this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates back to the Industrial Revolution, a model that casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. They challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world. Why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective. "Waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new - either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are). Elaborating their principles from experience redesigning everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.
©2002 William McDonough and Michael Braungart (P)2008 Tantor
Winning Methods of the Market Wizards with Jack Schwager
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The renowned Market Wizards author and Trader's Hall of Fame award winner presents a powerful workshop highlighting the most common traits and techniques of the super traders. This rare session can help investors of all skill levels become market masters.
©2005 Ask Editor (P)2005 Ask Editor
One Good Trade
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An inside look at what it really takes to become a better trader. A proprietary trading firm consists of a group of professionals who trade the capital of the firm. Their income and livelihood is generated solely from their ability to take profits consistently out of the markets. The world of prop trading is mentally and emotionally challenging, but offers substantial rewards to the select few who can master this craft called trading. In One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading, author Mike Bellafiore shares the principles and techniques that have enabled him to navigate the most challenging of markets over the past twelve years. He explains how he has imparted those techniques to an elite desk of traders at the proprietary trading firm he co-founded. In doing so, he lifts the veil on the inner workings of his firm, shedding light on the challenges of prop trading and insight on why traders succeed or fail. An important contribution to trading literature, the book will help all traders by: Emphasizing the development of skills that are critical to success, such as the fundamentals of One Good Trade, Reading the Tape, and finding Stocks In Play. Outlining the factors that really make the difference between a consistently profitable trader and one who underperforms. Sharing entertaining, hysterical, and page turning stories of traders who have excelled or failed and why, many trained by the author, with an essential trading principle wrapped inside. Becoming a better trader takes discipline, skill development, and statistically profitable trading strategies, and this book will show you how to develop all three. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2010 Mike Bellafiore (P)2012 Gildan Media
Cryptocurrency Trading: A Complete Beginners Guide to Cryptocurrency Investing with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Altcoin, Ripple, Dogecoin, Dash, and Others
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Learn the investment strategies to start cashing in on cryptocurrencies. Are you interested in investing in cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and altcoin, but don't know where to start? Are you new to cryptocurrency trading and need to learn the ropes? In this complete beginner's guide to cryptocurrency investing, you will learn everything you need to know to start investing your money in cryptocurrencies and start cashing in on this digital currency revolution! Understand the differences between the more popular cryptocurrencies in today's market. Learn how to buy and sell and discover investment strategies to take your investing to the next level. Don't wait, grab your copy today and start investing in your future. What you will learn: What cryptocurrency is How blockchain works Understanding the existing cryptocurrencies Different investment strategies Long-term vs, short-term Coin storage And so much more! Grab your copy today!
©2018 Dibbly Publishing (P)2018 Dibbly Publishing
More Money Than God
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The Paul Volker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post journalist Sebastian Mallaby has garnered New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book honors for his enthralling nonfiction. Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009.
©2010 Sebastian Mallaby (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
The Business Blockchain
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The definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what, why, and how of the blockchain. Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects trust into the network, cutting off some intermediaries from serving that function and creatively disrupting how they operate. Metaphorically, blockchains are the ultimate non-stop computers. Once launched, they never go down, and offer an incredible amount of resiliency, making them dependable and attractive for running a new generation of decentralized services and software applications. The Business Blockchain charts new territory in advancing our understanding of the blockchain by unpacking its elements like no other before. William Mougayar anticipates a future that consists of thousands, if not millions of blockchains that will enable not only frictionless value exchange, but also a new flow of value, redefining roles, relationships, power, and governance. In this book, Mougayar makes two other strategic assertions. First, the blockchain has polymorphic characteristics; its application will result in a multiplicity of effects. Second, we shouldn't ask ourselves what problems the blockchain solves, because that gives us a narrow view on its potential. Rather, we should imagine new opportunities, and tackle even more ambitious problems that cross organizational, regulatory and mental boundaries. Drawing on 34 years of technology industry experience as an executive, analyst, consultant, entrepreneur, startup mentor, author, blogger, educator, thought leader, and investor, William Mougayar describes a future that is influenced by fundamental shifts brought by blockchain technology as the catalyst for change. William Mougayar has been described as the most sophisticated blockchain business thinker. He is a blockchain industry insider whose work has already shaped and influenced the understanding of blockchain for people around the world via his generous blogging and rigorous research insights. He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives, and practitioners; in addition to being an investor, advisor, and board member in some of the leading organizations in this space, such as the Ethereum Foundation, OpenBazaar, and Coin Center. Just as the Internet created new possibilities that we didn't foresee in its early years, the blockchain will give rise to new business models and ideas that may still be invisible. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2016 William Mougayar (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Rich Habits
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The Rich Habits are 10 principles created through years of researching the daily success habits of the author's wealthiest clients. These 10 simple principles miraculously transform every individual who comes into contact with them. By applying these principles, you are literally walking in the footsteps of the wealthy. In Rich Habits, Tom Corley provides a step-by-step financial success program that is concise, easy to understand, and even easier to apply regardless of your age, education, or income level. In these tough economic times, individuals are struggling financially and desperately looking for help in achieving financial success. All people seek prosperity for themselves and their families, and with Rich Habits the secret to financial success possessed by only the wealthiest individuals will be revealed.
©2009 Thomas C. Corley (P)2016 Thomas C. Corley
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
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For nearly 40 years, The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need has been a favorite finance guide, earning the allegiance of more than a million investors across America. This completely updated edition will show you how to use your money to your best advantage in today's financial marketplace, no matter what your means. Using concise, witty, and truly understandable tips and explanations, Andrew Tobias delivers sensible advice and useful information on savings, investments, preparing for retirement, and much more.
©2016 Andrew Tobias (P)2016 Tantor
Investing for Dummies, Fourth Edition
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It doesn't matter if you have $100, $10,000 or $1,000 - Eric Tyson's Investing for Dummies shows you how to maximize your investment - the fun way. This hands-on down to earth reference cuts through the jargon and provides you with the techniques and strategies you need to make sound investment decisions based on you overall financial picture. Packed with expert tips, suggestions, and anecdotes, this book takes you through the often confusing and intimidating world of investing step-by-step. Starting with the fundamentals, financial guru Tyson guides you through the ins and outs of investing in the stock market, real estate and more. With easy-to-understand explanations, helpful advice, and a lot of humor this audio will become your trusted investment counselor.
©2006 Eric Tyson (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully
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The personal finance book of the year - Mad Money and CNBC star Jim Cramer's guide to high-yield/low-risk investing in a recovering economy. Tired of false promises about getting rich quickly, promises that lead to reckless decisions, the stepping stones to the poorhouse? How about trying something different? How about going for lasting wealth based on thirty-five years' worth of insights from Jim Cramer, a grizzled stock veteran and host of CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer . . . How about getting rich carefully? Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully gives you the plans you need to make big money without taking big risks. Drawing on his unparalleled knowledge of both the stock market and about the mistakes and successes he's made on the way to his own fortune, Cramer explains to you, in plain English, why you can get rich in a prudent, methodical way, as long as you start now. In his own inimitable style, Cramer lays it on the line, no waffling, no on-the-one-hand-or-the-other, just the straight stuff you need to get wealthy - everything from the best long-term investing themes to the discipline you need to exploit them. Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully may be the most invaluable book savers and investors could ever hope for: a tell-all that tells you all you need to know to turn your savings into real, lasting wealth in a practical and, yes, because it's Cramer, readable and entertaining fashion.
©2013 James J. Cramer (P)2013 Penguin Audio
The Ultimate Napoleon Hill Library
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The Nightingale-Conant Corporation, in association with The Napoleon Hill Foundation, is pleased to present The Ultimate Napoleon Hill Library - featuring world-renowned author, speaker, and philosopher - Mr. Napoleon Hill. In this priceless audio collection, you'll listen to classic Napoleon Hill audio segments from a variety of sources - from three of Nightingale-Conant's best-selling audio programs, Think and Grow Rich, The Science of Personal Achievement, and The Master Key to Riches; to original WGN radio broadcasts, public seminars, and one-of-a-kind private lectures. In fact, some of the audio segments that follow have never been released to public - and are yours to hear for the very first time! But, more important than the source of these unforgettable sound recordings, is the life-changing wisdom about success and achievement that they contain. Given that you have invested in this collection, you are likely aware of Napoleon Hill's classic work: Think and Grow Rich. And you'll hear several audio segments from this classic work as part of this collection. But you may not be aware of the large body of principles and ideas that went well beyond the scope of that classic work - and literally encompassed every meaningful area of professional and personal success. Here's just a sampling of what you'll learn in this series: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. A Definite Major Purpose is the basis of any and all accomplishments. How to overcome fear, lack of self-confidence, and money worries. How to program the mind through the magic of autosuggestion. How Applied Faith can be your launching pad to great success. How to develop, and maintain, rock solid self-discipline. Methods for developing strong personal initiative. How to focus your thoughts into clear plans of action And so much more!
©2019 Napoleon Hill Foundation (P)2020 Nightingale Conant
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing is a DIY handbook that espouses the sage investment wisdom of John C. Bogle. This witty and wonderful book offers contrarian advice that provides the first step on the road to investment success, illustrating how relying on typical "common sense" promoted by Wall Street is destined to leave you poorer. This updated edition includes new information on backdoor Roth IRAs and ETFs as mainstream buy-and-hold investments, estate taxes and gifting, plus changes to the laws regarding Traditional and Roth IRAs, and 401k and 403b retirement plans. With warnings and principles both precisely accurate and grandly counterintuitive, the Boglehead authors show how beating the market is a zero-sum game. Investing can be simple, but it's certainly not simplistic. Over the course of 20 years, the followers of John C. Bogle have evolved from a loose association of investors to a major force with the largest and most active non-commercial financial forum on the Internet. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing brings that communication to you with comprehensive guidance to the investment prowess on display at Bogleheads.org. You'll learn how to craft your own investment strategy using the Bogle-proven methods that have worked for thousands of investors.
©2014 Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael LeBoeuf (P)2019 Gildan Media
Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards
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Rich Dad’s Guide to Becoming Rich will… Explain why cutting up your credit cards is a short-sighted, quick fix that doesn’t address the underlying problem of bad debt Describe the difference between good debt and bad debt Illustrate how using credit cards to buy liabilities will only make you poor Show why using credit cards responsibly is a first step toward taking control of your financial future Teach you the importance of having your money work for you… so you won’t spend your life working for money. "The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school, but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money… but never learn to have money work for them.” -Robert Kiyosaki Entrepreneur, investor, educator, and author of the #1 Personal Finance book of all time, Rich Dad Poor Dad
©2011 CASHFLOW Technologies, Inc. (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved
The Wealthy Renter
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A National Bestseller! Why be house poor when you can rent rich? “Why rent when you can buy?” More than any other, this phrase captures the overwhelmingly unanimous promotion of home ownership to Canadians. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, family, friends, and even the government promote ownership as a safe, attractive, and sure-fire path to personal wealth. This one-size-fits-all advice ignores the reality of Canada’s housing market. Canadians deserve better advice. Faced with expensive house prices in a near-zero interest rate world, it’s time Canadians heard the virtues of renting and seriously considered renting as an alternative to home ownership. Real estate analyst Alex Avery insists renting offers a simple, more affordable way to live, plus in Canada’s frenzied housing market, going month-to-month is dramatically lower risk. He claims the reputation of home ownership as a wealth building strategy is unfounded and shows renters how to replace bricks-and-mortar with better investment opportunities.
©2016 Alex Avery (P)2020 Heraclon Publishing Canada
Rich Dad Advisors: Stock Market Cash Flow
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The audiobook addresses many of the challenges facing stock market investors and the ways many investors use the stock market to achieve their financial and investing goals. The audiobook teaches the principles of the author's "four pillars of stock market income" and effectively simplifies these concepts to help investors harness their power and potential. Stock Market Cash Flow also includes valuable discussion on where paper assets fit (and don't fit) in the context of Rich Dad principles and its place among the other assets classes: real estate, business, and commodities. The audiobook concludes with individual action plans that support the goals of the individual investor. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2014 Andy Tanner (P)2018 Hachette Audio
A History of the United States in Five Crashes
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In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today. The Panic of 1907; Black Tuesday (1929); Black Monday (1987); the Great Recession (2008); the Flash Crash (2010): Each of these financial implosions that caused a catastrophic drop in the American stock market is a remarkable story in its own right. But taken together, they offer a unique financial history of the American century. In A History of the United States in Five Crashes, financial executive and CNBC contributor Scott Nations examines these precipitous dips, revealing how each played a role in America's political and cultural fabric, one building upon the next to create the nation we know today. Scott Nations identifies the factors behind the disastrous runs on banks that led to the Panic of 1907, the first great scare of the 20th century. He explains why 1920s America adopted investment trusts - a practice that helped post-World War I Britain - and how they were a primary catalyst of the 1929 crash. He explores America's love affair with an expanding stock market in the 1980s - which spawned the birth of portfolio insurance that significantly contributed to the 1987 crash. And he examines the factors that led to the 2008 global meltdown and the rise of algorithmic trading, the modern financial technology that sparked the 2010 Flash Crash when American stocks lost a trillion dollars in minutes. A History of the United States in Five Crashes clearly and compellingly illustrates the connections between these financial collapses and examines the solid, clear-cut lessons they offer for preventing the next one.
©2017 Scott Nations (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
Crash Proof 2.0
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The economic and monetary disaster, which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff warned of in the best-selling first edition of Crash Proof, is no longer hypothetical - it is here today. And while most people believe that the economic collapse is over, the reality is that it has only just begun. That's why he's returned with Crash Proof 2.0. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients restructure their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees today is a nation facing a growing economic storm - brought on by bursting bubbles and growing federal, personal, and corporate debt - that will only continue to intensify as the U.S. government refuses to allow market forces to repair the damage. Crash Proof 2.0 picks up right where the first edition - which clearly foresaw the bursting of the real-estate bubble, credit crunch, and the insolvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - left off and includes much more up-to-the-minute analysis and advice. This timely guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides you with valuable insights that will allow you to protect yourself, as well as prosper, during the difficult times that lie ahead. Throughout, Schiff explains the factors that will affect your future financial stability - from the bubble in bond prices and collapse of the dollar to surging long-term interest rates and run-away inflation - and offers a specific three-step plan to battle today's economic downturn and tomorrow's market mayhem.
©2009 Peter D. Schiff (P)2009 Gildan Media Corp