A hard-nosed guide for middle-income consumers explains ways for getting the most out of your checking and savings accounts, credit cards, mortgages, insurance, and pensions, offering expert advice on personal financial management

Your Money: How to Make It Work Harder for You

Phalon, Richard

Business & Money

St Martins Pr

A hard-nosed guide for middle-income consumers explains ways for getting the most out of your checking and savings accounts, credit cards, mortgages, insurance, and pensions, offering expert advice on personal financial management

Your Money: How to Make It Work Harder Than You Do

The Takeover Barons of Wall Street: Inside the Billion-dollar Merger Game

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Adult HC/TR

An exciting follow-up to the bestselling Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time In the tradition of the bestselling Forbes(r) Greatest Business Stories of All Time, Forbes(r) Greatest Investing Stories focuses on profiles of fascinating people who have achieved success in a range of investing arenas. This volume chronicles old-time innovators like Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing; Hetty Green, the Street's first female stock picker; T. Rowe Price, founder of one of the largest mutual fund families; and Georges F. Doriot, the driving force behind the first publicly owned venture firm in the United States. Others featured include such modern-day legends as Tom Bailey, founder of Janus Funds; Marty Whitman, value investor supreme and manager of the Third Avenue Value Fund; and Muriel F. Siebert, the first woman admitted to the New York Stock Exchange. Packed with investing lessons, wisdom and even the story of the swindle of the century, Forbes(r) Greatest Investing Stories makes an engrossing read and a great gift for any investor or market mogul. 
Richard Phalon (New York, NY) has been a contributing editor at Forbes since 1980. He covered personal finance, Wall Street, urban affairs, and politics at the New York Times for sixteen years before joining Forbes. He is the author of The Takeover Barons of Wall Street and Your Money: How to Make It Work Harder Than You Do.

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories

Biography & History

wiley

An exciting follow-up to the bestselling Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time In the tradition of the bestselling Forbes(r) Greatest Business Stories of All Time, Forbes(r) Greatest Investing Stories focuses on profiles of fascinating people who have achieved success in a range of investing arenas. This volume chronicles old-time innovators like Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing; Hetty Green, the Street's first female stock picker; T. Rowe Price, founder of one of the largest mutual fund families; and Georges F. Doriot, the driving force behind the first publicly owned venture firm in the United States. Others featured include such modern-day legends as Tom Bailey, founder of Janus Funds; Marty Whitman, value investor supreme and manager of the Third Avenue Value Fund; and Muriel F. Siebert, the first woman admitted to the New York Stock Exchange. Packed with investing lessons, wisdom and even the story of the swindle of the century, Forbes(r) Greatest Investing Stories makes an engrossing read and a great gift for any investor or market mogul. Richard Phalon (New York, NY) has been a contributing editor at Forbes since 1980. He covered personal finance, Wall Street, urban affairs, and politics at the New York Times for sixteen years before joining Forbes. He is the author of The Takeover Barons of Wall Street and Your Money: How to Make It Work Harder Than You Do.

Economics

Investing

Blackstone Audiobooks

Biotech, high tech, bubbles, and busts--no two stock markets are ever the same. Getting ahead of the game demands something hard to find on Wall Street these days: a flexible long-term strategy good for all seasons. These great investing stories provide a well-honed guide to the practicalities of dealing with the turbulent markets of the new century. Distilling his long experience in covering Wall Street, Richard Phalon offers ten mini-essays profiling the business ideals of some of Wall Street's most successful investors. Each episode demonstrates how these canny money managers, often bouncing back from painful losses, worked out ways of buffeting the uncertainties of the marketplace. Let the time-tested measures of seers like Benjamin Graham and T. Rowe Price show you how to spot value at a discount, and witness how trailblazing women like Hetty Green and Muriel F. Siebert proved that men have no monopoly on Wall Street savvy. Capitalizing on the techniques of these shrewd money spinners will help you profit, no matter which way the wind blows. The essays included here are: "Why Investors Should Know Their History" by James W. Michaels, "Value Avatar" by Benjamin Graham, "Value with a Difference" by Marty Whitman, "Growth Avatar by T. Rowe Price, "Extending the Growth Culture" by Tom Bailey, "Swindle of the Century" by Anthony DeAngelis, "Investor Beware: A Cautionary Tale," "The Richest Woman in the World" by Hetty Green, "Visit with a Billionairess" by Muriel Siebert, "The Venture Capital's Capitalist" by Georges Doriot, and "A Venture of Angels" by Paul Bandrowski.

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories Lib/E

Blackstone Publishing

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Your Money: How to Make It Work Harder for You

Your Money: How to Make It Work Harder Than You Do

The Takeover Barons of Wall Street: Inside the Billion-dollar Merger Game

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories Lib/E

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories