Have you ever considered that love is empty without promises and that your understanding of what these promises are holds the key to building a strong, loving and joy-filled marriage? What It Means When I Say I Do offers an extraordinary and refreshing guide into strengthening your commitment—all within a span of an hour's reading!In this book, Cindy David provides you with:A daily roadmap consisting of 35 daily promises to help you n...

Praise for the previous edition, Portfolio First Aid"I'd categorize Portfolio First Aid as a serious investment primer that has the laudable, if ambitious, goal of raising the sophistication level of the general public."—Jonathan Chevreau, Financial Post"Portfolio First Aid has the right pedigree as an advice tome on healthy investing. Covers the bases of portfolio balance, building wealth, investi...

How can love grow and turn our marriageinto a lasting picture of that love?There is no better way to begin than to get a solid grasp of what our commitment means.In this book, Cindy David offers us a roadmap with 35 daily promises for marriage to help us navigate the true meaning of our commitment and guide us into strengthening it.Presented with clear, practical steps, these promises help us see that commitment is not just mustering the courage to say "I do" on o...

A contrarian and controversial look at personal finance, and a super simple strategy for making—and keeping—more moneyTraditional financial wisdom persuades us to grow our net worth and build our assets. But traditional financial wisdom is often wrong. In Cash Cows, Pigs and Jackpots: The Simplest Personal Finance Strategy You'll Ever See, author and Chartered Accountant David Trahair challenges everything we think we know about managing our money, suggest...

Times have changed and the rules have changed, but financial security is still the goal. Do you know how to get there?There is a new reality out there—a new normal. What was once certain—that you would be able to retire comfortably, that you would pay for your kids’ education, that your home would appreciate in value—is no longer a sure thing. So much has changed on the financial landscape that it’s hard to know which moves are the right ones to make. Suze Orman’s ...

Personal finance expert, bestselling author, and host of CNBC’s*Mad Money* Jim Cramer offers specific advice about how to overcome your fear of the markets and recover your investments in an economic crisis.You don’t even look at your 401(k) statements any longer. When mail comes from your broker or your mutual fund, you throw it in a drawer unopened. You know how bad things are and you’re just waiting for them to improve before yo...

John C. Bogle shares his extensive insights on investing in mutual fundsSince the first edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was published in 1999, much has changed, and no one is more aware of this than mutual fund pioneer John Bogle. Now, in this completely updated Second Edition, Bogle returns to take another critical look at the mutual fund industry and help investors navigate their way through the staggering array of investment alternative...

What is your number one investment priority? Beating the market averages? Finding the next "hot" stock? Making a modest ten percent a year on your money? If you found yourself nodding in agreement to any of those suggestions, you need to rethink your whole approach to money management. The number one goal of every investor should actually be to sleep comfortably at night. Personal finance expert Gordon Pape explains that if you adopt the sleep-easy philosophy as your basic credo and judge ...

A timely follow-up to the bestselling classic Dividends Don't LieIn 1988 Geraldine Weiss wrote the classic Dividends Don't Lie, which focused on the Dividend-Yield Theory as a method of producing consistent gains in the stock market. Today, the approach of using the dividend yield to identify values in blue chip stocks still outperforms most investment methods on a risk-adjusted basis.Written by Kelley Wright, Managing Editor of Investment Quality Tren...

A detailed look at how Warren Buffett really investsIn this engaging new book, author Prem Jain extracts Warren Buffett's wisdom from his writings, Berkshire Hathaway financial statements, and his letters to shareholders and partners in his partnership firms-thousands of pages written over the last fifty years. Jain uncovers the key elements of Buffett's approach that every investor should be aware of.With Buffett Beyond Value, you'll learn that, contrary to popula...

Come over to the short side.Ever since Dutch trader Isaac Le Maire invented short selling in 1609 (and evoked the first ban on it), short selling has been seen as the dark side of stock trading-slightly suspect and too intricate for individual investors. Today, short selling is an integral part of all markets and new tools can make it as simple as buying stocks.As Michael Shulman explains in this book, a short seller is a profit-seeking contrarian who sees ...

With more than a million copies in print, Robert Allen's Nothing Down for the '90s has probably helped more people achieve success in real estate than any book in history. Countless numbers of his readers are now financially independent and many actual millionaires attribute their wealth to his techniques. Why has this blockbuster bestseller been so successful? The answer is simple: it works! Now, in one of the most practical books you'll ever read, Robert Allen h...