A compact guide to evaluating financial statements and uncovering the realities behind the numbers. This edition has been updated with new information and examples which reflect today's financial actualities. (view table of contents)

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An engaging and revealing collection of money-making strategies from some of the world's wealthiest individuals discusses the successful tactics used by such titans as Warren Buffett, J. Paul Getty, Bill Gates, and Laurence Tisch. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: How to be a Billionaire looks at the careers, the methods, and the minds of self-made billionaires to distill the common keys to titanic accumulations of wealth. Each chapter explores a specific strategy and brings it to life through extended profiles of past and present masters of the art of making money...read more

What the experts are saying about INVESTMENT ILLUSIONS "One of the most entertaining, readable, and well-informed books on personal investing that I have seen. With erudition and wit, Fridson takes aim at the shibboleths, sacred cows, and snakeoil salesmen of the personal investing industry. Investment Illusions is a practical and engaging 'how-not-to' guide." --Stuart C. Gilson, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University. "Investment Illusions presents much good financial advice and a great deal of financial history, especially recent financial history, in an easy-to-read style. I enjoyed it." --Harry M. Markowitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Marvin Speiser Professor of Finance and Economics, Baruch College. "Once in a while, you read a book which makes you think, 'I wish I'd read this book ten years ago.' Investment Illusions is such a book. I found it highly entertaining as well as instructive--the kind of book you pass on to a friend." --Richard Lehmann, President, Bond Investors Association. "Illusions can seem tangible and yet be fallacious. As usual, Marty Fridson uncovers minefields in some of the most important investment fundamentals in a clever and intuitive fashion." --Tony Kao, Director of Investment Research, General Motors Investment Management Corporation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again? In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

What happens when politicians substitute their wisdom for the market’s? The result is usually a government subsidy that provides advantage to a special interest group only–but costs everyone and drains the economy. In Unwarranted Intrusions, well-known financial commentator Martin Fridson turns his sharp eye for uncovering opaque financial reporting practices to the U.S. government and examines the economic reality of some of the most popular yet financially draining subsidies. Fridson debunks programs that claim to provide jobs, encourage savings, provide affordable housing, and preserve family farms–among many others. Unwarranted Intrusions is a provocative and exhaustively researched challenge to prevailing political claims of programs that purport to protect the public good.

Product Description: Surveys the current climate of changing interest rates, volatile credit quality, and the fixed income market, covering critical developments in markets, valuation, and the legal and regulatory environment. Looks at innovation and growth in major market sectors and new techniques of securities valuation, explaining mortgage-backed securities, corporate bonds, junk bonds, and structured notes, and discusses recent tax development affecting fixed income derivative securities and structured finance transactions...read more