Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3: Getting Your Financial House in Order before You InvestEstablishing an Emergency Reserve; Evaluating Your Debts; Establishing Your Financial Goals; Funding Your Retirement Accounts; Taming Your Taxes in Non-Retirement Accounts; Choosing the Right Investment Mix; Treading Carefully When Investing for College; Protecting Your Assets; Part II: Stocks, Bonds, and Wall Street; Chapter 4: The Workings of Stock and Bond Markets; How Companies Raise Money through the Financial Markets; Understanding Financial Markets and Economics; Chapter 5: Building Wealth with Stocks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beating the Commercial Banks Gao Jian: Creating a Market for ""Risk-Free"" Bonds; The West Self-Destructs: The Financial Crisis; Moving Beyond Wall Street; Chapter 3: Nothing to Lose but Our Chains: China Development Bank in Africa; Made in Ethiopia; Ethiopia's Zone: Exporting to the West; China-Africa Development Fund: The State's Private Equity Arm; Rising Role of China in Africa; Fixed Capital: Western-Style Lending; African Tiger: Can Ghana Escape the Resource Curse?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""; Misplaced Interests; Brokers and Advisors; Wall Street Brokers versus Main Street Consumers; Peddling Products; Omission versus Commission; Key Points; Chapter 3: The Wall Street Whitewash; Image Is Everything; Shopping Shortcuts; Vegas Rules; Play Money…”

“…In Understanding China’s Economic Indicators, leading economist and Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas M. Orlik introduces 35 of China's most significant economic statistics. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Internet Madness and the Damage It CausedTaking Advantage of Fear and Greed; Opportunities after Chaos; Rule 5: Build Mountains of Money with a Responsible Portfolio; What Are Bonds?; Profiting from Panic-Stock Market Crash 2008-2009; Having a Foreign Affair; Introducing the Couch Potato Portfolio; Combinations of Stocks and Bonds Can Have Powerful Returns; Rule 6: Sample a ""Round-the-World"" Ticket to Indexing; Indexing in the United States-An American Father of Triplets; Indexing In Canada-A Landscaper Wins by Pruning Costs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; How to Reduce Debts in Bad Times; How to Protect Your Job in Bad Times; Chapter 2: The Government Declares War on the Financial Crisis; Chapter 3: Wall Street Deceptions, Cover-Ups, and Lies; With Most Corporate and Municipal Bonds Overrated, Here's What to Do With Them . . .; Chapter 4: Housing: How to Escape the Greatest Bust of All Time; 10 Steps for Selling Your Home in a Weak Market…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Dollar's Popularity Doesn't Protect It; The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to USA: You're Toast; Russia and Iran Are Ditching the Dollar…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Myth 6: You Need to Use Fancy Black Swan Hedges in a Time of CrisisMyth 7: Stocks Are Riskier Than Bonds; Myth 7a: Bonds Are Riskier Than Stocks; Myth 8: The 2000s Were a Lost Decade for the Stock Market; Myth 9: New All-Time Highs in the Stock Market Mean Its Going to Crash; Myth 10: A Yield on an Investment Makes It Safer; Myth 11: Commodities Are a Good Long-Term Investment; Myth 12: Housing Is a Good Long-Term Investment; Myth 13: Investing in the Stock Market Is Like Gambling at a Casino; Key Takeaways from Chapter ; Notes; 5 Defining Your Investment Philosophy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…., Repetition) Builds Trust -- Transforming Requires Acceptance - "Trust" as a Two-Way Street -- Takeaways -- Chapter 5 Learn What Others Value -- Profile: PwC (Consulting) Encouraging Trust as a Bonding Agent -- Challenging Your Talent Strategy -- Developing Your Team's Skills and Instincts -- Takeaways -- Chapter 6 Seek "Meaningful Knowledge" -- Profile: Salve Regina University (Higher Ed) - "We Got This" -- During the Pandemic -- Beyond the Pandemic -- Takeaways -- Part III Be Bold -- Chapter 7 Keep It Moving -- Profile: Dot Foods, Inc. …”

“…To do so, they must look beyond simply investing in stocks and bonds, while avoiding what may be overwhelming and even misleading investment advice. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- False gods, fake prophecies -- Mystery of price -- Demon of chance -- Corporate M&Ms -- Risk taming -- Slow and quick money -- Corporate practice -- Everything is just noise -- Perfect worlds -- Financial fundamentalism -- Fata morgana -- Part 3: Alchemy -- Learning to love debt -- Fixed floor coverings -- By the bootstraps -- Leverage for everything -- Cutting to the bone -- Professor Jensen goes to Wall Street -- Drowning by numbers -- Censored loans -- High opportunity bonds -- Fallen angels -- Junk people -- Milken's mobsters -- The sweet envy of bankers -- Thank you for borrowing -- One bridge too far -- National treasure -- Private vices -- Excess returns -- Sexy private equity -- Inflight entertainment -- Selling the family silver -- Holey dollar -- Money for nothing -- Public squalor, private profits -- Locust plagues -- Vain capital -- Amateur hour -- Turbulence -- Dice with debt -- Securitisation recipes -- Slice and dice -- Almost as safe as houses -- Synthetic stuff -- Get copula-ed -- Sticky mess -- Several houses of one's own -- Cheaper cuts of mortgage -- ARMs race -- Heroes for one day -- The doomsday debt machine -- Alpha-debt soup -- In the shadow of debt -- Virtual loans -- Counting on the abacus -- Intellectual masturbation -- Used to be smart -- Chain reaction -- Phase transition -- Terra incognita -- Risk supermarkets -- Mind your derivatives -- Particle finance -- Hedging your bets -- Sewer bonds -- Harvard case studies -- The Italian job -- Betting your hedge -- TARDIS trades -- I will kill you later -- First to lose -- Toxic municipal siblings -- Playing swaps and robbers -- The Greek job -- Madman's games -- Financial arms race -- Shock-Gen -- Evil Kerviel -- Soldier monks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: The Daoist Sage: Klipp''s Paradox; The Old Master; The Soft and Weak Vanquish the Hard and Strong; Into the Pit; The Privileges of a Trader; Robinson Crusoe in the Bond Pit; Fishing in ""McElligot''s Pool""; Enter the Austrians: A Von Karajan Moment; A State of Rest; Guiding into Emptiness . . .; Moving On; The Wisdom of the Sages; Chapter Two: The Forest in the Pinecone: The Roundabout and the Logic of Growth; The Forest and the Tree; The Slow Seedling…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""; ""2. Pick the right bond pattern.""; ""3: Minifig Scale: Oh, What a Wonderful Minifig World It Is!""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Recovery""; The Fed's Next Steps; Bottom Line: ""Recovery"" Is Still Driven by Massive Borrowing and Massive Money Printing; Our Investment Outlook; Stocks; Bonds; Europe; International Equities; Gold; Silver and Commodities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; LIVE HOW YOU WANT TO LIVE; EAT WHAT YOU WANT TO EAT; HAVE A HOBBY; BE PASSIONATE; AIM HIGH; AIM WELL; FOCUS ON YOUR GOALS; KEEP LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE; BE HONEST; TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH, PLEASE; LETTER TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; CULTIVATE GOOD CHARACTER; BELIEVE IN YOURSELF; BUT DON'T GET TOO STUCK ON YOURSELF; DODGE THE HYPE; SHARE YOUR WISDOM; DISREGARD OLD AGE; About Friends; KNOW WHAT FRIENDSHIP IS; GO TO BAT FOR YOUR PALS; GUIDING GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER; BUILD LIFELONG FRIENDSHIPS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Private Equity: The Damage Done -- Reform of Private Equity Firms -- Registration as Investment Advisers -- Fee Reform -- Chapter 7 Welcome to Jurassic Park -- Isla Nublar -- The New DNA of Finance -- Warning Signs -- Dinosaurs Turn on Their Makers -- Bear Stearns: First Casualty -- American International Group (AIG)-Second Casualty -- The Bond Insurers-Third Casualty -- Taming the Beasts (Regulating Credit Derivatives) -- Listing Credit Derivatives on an Exchange -- Counterparty Surveillance -- Increasing Collateral Requirements -- Chapter 8 The Road to Hell -- Satan in the Garden -- Reverse Black Swans -- Birth of the Prudent Man -- The Fallacy of Diversification -- Chapter 9 Finance after Armageddon -- Obama Goes to Wall Street -- Principles of Reform -- Impose a Tax on Speculation -- End Balkanized Regulation -- Too Big to Fail -- Improving Capital Adequacy -- Limiting Banks' Balance Sheet Leverage -- Compensation Reform -- Reforming Monetary Policy -- Enhancing Systemic Transparency -- Ban Structured Investment Vehicles -- Prohibit Dark Pools and High-Frequency Trading -- Chapter 10 Unfinished Business -- Monetary Policy -- Fiscal Policy and the Federal Deficit -- Entitlements -- End Corporate Welfare -- Military Spending -- Tax Reform -- Domestic Policy -- Chapter 11 How to Save Yourself -- Gold -- Absolute Return Strategies -- Equities -- Income‐Generating Securities -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: "This Is Later" -- Notes -- Bibliography and Other Sources -- About the Author -- Index -- EULA…”