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This is a major revision. Of the 201 ideas, 174 will have changes of some sort. Some of the changes will be minor (little tweaks and updates), while some ideas will involve major revisions or entirely new ideas, including five new interviews in chapter 10 to replace Muriel Siebert, Tom Peters (completely new interview with him), Wally Amos, and Harvey Mackay. In addition, 18 ideas (not included in the 55 revised or new ideas) have been revised to...
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Kendall's managed to wrangle her grandmother's house--free and clear--except for the rules. No male roommates. But that's okay. With the right ad she'll pull in some girls who will pay rent. If she's lucky, Kendall won't have to go to work any time soon.
Anna, Lelani, and Megan all have their reasons for wanting to move in. Anna has got to get out from under her overprotective parents. Lelani can't take another day in her aunt's tiny crackerbox house...
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It's the holiday season, and each of the roommates at 86 Bloomberg Place is a little blue. Megan's got the boss from hell, and now her mom is going on a cruise, leaving Megan alone for Christmas for the first time ever. Lelani can't afford to fly home to Hawaii and isn't sure she'd be welcomed anyway--not that she can admit that to anyone. Anna's old boyfriend--the one who cheated on her--has sailed back into her life just when she's met a for-real...
4) Spring broke
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In this 3rd book in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Kendall's housemates help her plan a garage sale to pay off her shopoholic debt. Megan is questioning her job goals. Anna is battling her family's attitude toward her Caucasian boyfriend. And Lelani is trying to work up the nerve to go home to Maui, where her controlling parents are caring for her infant daughter.
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In the final installment in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Melody Carlson follows the girls in a crazed competition for bridesmaids, wedding locations, and showers.
Newly engaged Lelani has returned from Maui to Bloomberg Place and is trying to book her wedding date. Unfortunately, there are scheduling conflicts for that same weekend. For starters, Megan and Marcus have a family wedding commitment. Anna and Edmond have promised to attend his younger...
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How do fledgling companies make it from idea to multimillion-dollar Internet IPOs? Steve Harmon, whom CBS MarketWatch calls one of Wall Street's top Internet stock analysts, shows how an innovator can convert sparks of imagination into a money-making Internet business. Harmon describes the Internet environment as “zero gravity,” a place where information, communication, and wealth flow up, down, and sideways as in an astronaut's weightless environment....
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Philanthropy is a booming business, with hundreds of billions of dollars committed to the social sector each year. Money Well Spent, an award-winning guide on how to structure philanthropy so that it really makes a difference, offers a comprehensive and crucial resource for individual donors, foundations, non-profits, and scholars who focus on and teach others about this realm. Behind every successful grant is a smart strategy. Paul Brest and Hal...
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Hard-to-explain topics, explained simply. Current events, business analysis, commentary, long-form features, polling, original video, interactive graphics, and more from the nation's leading business commentators. This volume of Bloomberg QuickTake is titled Climate Change, and focuses on how climate change is influencing where we live, how we invest, and even what clothes we buy. With sections on Finance & Capital Markets, Trade, Global Governance,...
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Hard-to-explain topics, explained simply. Current events, business analysis, commentary, long-form features, polling, original video, interactive graphics, and more from the nation's leading business commentators. This volume of Bloomberg QuickTake is titled Disruption's Fallout, and focuses on the unintended consequences of innovations in technology. With sections on Economy & Finance; World Affairs; Energy & Environment; and Health & Society.
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The credit crunch is affecting every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages have been center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies, and regulators has imperiled everyone's financial future. We need to know what went wrong and how to change the practices that led to this calamity.
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Confidence Game is a tale about the dangerous delusions that humbled America's largest financial institutions and plunged the country into recession. Its heart is the story of how hedge fund manager Bill Ackman warned that MBIA Inc., a little-known insurance company, had guaranteed nearly a trillion dollars of debt. Branded a fraud in the financial press, Ackman, a short seller who stood to gain billions from the bankruptcy of the company was investigated...
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The gift of giving is at the core of family wealth and with the new estate law allowing up to $5,120,000 in tax-free gifting, the ultra-affluent are faced with the task of giving in the largest amount in estate tax history. Beyond the tax saving and wealth management implications, the act of giving in such a generous amount opens up a slew of new issues for wealthy families, the biggest of which is: how do I prepare the recipient of such a hefty gift?...
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Food security, the availability of food and reasonable access to it, has become one of the hottest topics of the year, growing in importance with every spike in agricultural commodity prices, of which there have been many since 2007. While 2010 prices rises have not been as severe as 2007 and 2008, they are still up double-digits with grain up 33% and fruits up an absurd 62%. These increases have led to hunger, starvation, and often civil unrest....
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The purpose of this book is to focus on what goes wrong in entrepreneurship what business owner’s regret and what one can do to address these laments. The book will commence with an overview of the personality traits and qualities that make success in entrepreneurship more likely, and will then turn to an examination of 7 key laments the author has experienced and witnessed as an entrepreneur himself and as a corporate attorney representing hundreds...
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Andrew Lo, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and his co-author Jasmina Hasanhodzic, present the creation and evolution of technical analysis, spanning several civilizations, from the most ancient onesas far back as the Stone Age, through the rise of Wall Street as the world's financial center. It is filled with interesting facts, such as that speculative trading came into existence in ancient Babylon, where market values of various...
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Why do some families thrive for generations? What accounts for the sad deterioration that others experience? This book takes families and the professionals who serve them beyond the now widely accepted practices offered in Family Wealth and offers a view of Hughes's panoramic insights into what makes families flourish and fail. It lays out the basis for the vision of family governance the author has been developing through his work and research. His...
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Every family hopes to confer advantages that are more than just material and financial-to inculcate character and leadership, to inspire creativity and enterprise, to help all family members find and follow their individual callings, and to avoid the financial dependency and loss of initiative that can all too often be an unwanted consequence of financial success. Yet many families never succeed in realizing that vision, much less sustaining it for...
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Initial Public Offerings provide investors and traders with opportunities for both short-term and long-term profits. IPOs typically ignite a great deal of interest because they make new, highly successful young companies available to investors for the first time. In Money Making IPO Strategies, IPO expert Tom Taulli explains all facets of IPO investing and trading, with a particular emphasis on the new industries that are fueling the next generation...
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The Gulf deep water well disaster has focused attention on BP's management and their unfortunate PR and media gaffes. Tony Hayward and Swedish Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg elicit no sympathy, and do cause people to wonder about their management capabilities. Others, perhaps BP apologists or those with a no deep sea well drilling agenda, seem to suggest that this was bound to happen and BP just happened to be the unlucky company to which this disaster...
20) Investing 101
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People wanting basic advice about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement planning, and tax strategies are often frustrated by information overload. Picking the right book seems as daunting as deciding what to do with their savings and investments.
Investing 101: Updated and Expanded removes both roadblocks, putting people on a path that they can understand and stick with. Kristof is renowned for taking the mystery and anxiety out of investing by...