Books, Business & Investing, Finance

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Alice Schroeder
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Bantam (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-29)

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the ...

Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Children About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Don't
by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (Hardcover)

George Soros
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means
by PublicAffairs (Paperback) (Release Date: 2009-05-11)

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future.George Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivalled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity. 'This is a once in a lifetime moment', writes Soros in characterizing the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centres around the world. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for the world.

John C. Bogle
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
by Wiley (Hardcover)

Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)
by Collins Business (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-07-08)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Texere (Hardcover)

Charles R. Morris
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
by PublicAffairs (Paperback) (Release Date: 2009-02-09)

Now fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce recession. In crisp, gripping prose, Charles R. Morris shows how got into this mess. He explains the arcane financial instruments, the chicanery, the policy mis-judgments, the dogmas, and the delusions that created the greatest credit bubble in world history.Paul Volcker slew the inflation dragon in the early 1980s, and set the stage for the high performance economy of the 1980s and 1990s. But Wall Street's prosperity soon tilted into gross excess. The astronomical leverage at major banks and their hedge fund and private equity clients led to massive disruption in global markets. A quarter century of free-market zealotry that extolled asset ...

G. Edward Griffin
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
by Amer Media (Paperback)

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story — which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island will change the way you view the world, politics, and money. Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again — or a banker.

Thomas J. Stanley
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Longstreet Press (Hardcover)

Mary Buffett, David Clark
Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage
by Scribner (Hardcover)

With an insider's view of the mind of the master, Mary Buffett and David Clark have written a simple guide for reading financial statements from Warren Buffett's succccessful perspective.Buffett and Clark clearly outline Warren Buffett's strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham (The Interpretation of Financial Statements, 1937), this book presents Buffett's interpretation of financial statements with anecdotes and quotes from the master investor himself.Potential investors will discover:• Buffett's time-tested dos and don'ts for interpreting an income statement and balance sheet• Why high research and development costs can kill a great business• How much debt Buffett thinks a company can carry before it becomes too dangerous to touch• The financial ratios and calculations that Buffett uses to identify the company with a durable competitive advantage -- which he ...

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