Wealth Without Worry:

The Methods of Wall Street Exposed  
by Jim Whiddon with Lance Alston

What Wall Street says and does, and where it leads, most investors blindly follow. Wealth Without Worry is not for those followers. It is for investors who have always suspected that Wall Street is only interested in promoting a system that benefits itself first. 

All investors have the right to benefit from free capital markets. Wealth Without Worry shows you how to obtain what is rightfully yours.

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

by John Bogle

This book tells not just a story about what went wrong but, more important, the story of why we lost our way and of how we can right our course. Bogle argues for a return to a governance structure in which owners' capital that has been put at risk is used in their interests rather than in the interests of corporate and financial managers.

The Coming Generational Storm

by Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns

In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, there will be twice as many retirees as there are today but only 18 percent more workers. According to Kotlikoff and Burns, if our government continues the course it has set, we'll see skyrocketing tax rates, drastically lower retirement and health benefits, high inflation, a rapidly depreciating dollar, unemployment, and political instability. Kotlikoff and Burns propose bold new policies, including meaningful reforms of Social Security, and Medicare.

Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide

by Arthur Brooks

Charity matters—not just to the givers and to the recipients, but to the nation as a whole. It is crucial to our prosperity, happiness, health, and our ability to govern ourselves as a free people. In Who Cares, Brooks outlines who gives, who doesn't and suggests strategies for expanding the ranks of givers, for the good of all Americans.
 

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

by John Bogle

John Bogle's latest reiterates that investing is really just common sense. The real formula for investment success, he says, is to own the entire market, while significantly minimizing the costs of financial intermediation.

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

by Benjamin Friedman

Friedman, the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, presents a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that broadly distributed economic growth provides benefits far beyond the material: creating and strengthening democratic institutions, establishing political stability, fostering tolerance, and enhancing opportunity.
 

Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out The Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong

by John Stossel

Investigative reporter for ABC's 20/20, Stossel is well known for his impatient "Give Me a Break" reports. In a writing style similar to his television personality, Stossel's book debunks several popular misconceptions from media bias to world overpopulation. He presents a series of "myths" and then deploys an investigative journalism shovel to unearth "truth."

The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

by David Gratzer

Many agree that American health care is ailing. The solution, according to Dr. David Gratzer, is a strong dose of capitalism. His book "brings a dose of common sense to this over-regulated area of the American economy."

The Number

by Lee Eisenberg

Eisenberg believes "the number"—the amount of money and resources people will need to enjoy the life they desire, especially post-career—is as much about self-worth as it is net worth. The Number is not an investment guide, but a look at how to get a grip on our most common financial and emotional conflicts.

Ellis's book is considered by many to be a classic analysis of investing, with the premise that individual investors can achieve far greater success working with financial markets than against them, one that has grown increasingly popular in today's hard-to-predict markets. The latest edition offers updated strategies to leverage the power of time and compounding, protect against down cycles, and more.

The Paradox of Choice

by Barry Schwartz

We normally assume in America that more options will make us happier, but Schwartz shows the opposite is true, arguing that having all these choices actually goes so far as to erode our psychological well-being. Part research summary, part introductory social sciences tutorial, part self-help guide, this book offers concrete steps on how to reduce stress in decision making.

In Defense of Globalization

by Jagdish Bhagwati

Bhagwati takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful force for social good in the world today, writing that globalization actually often alleviates many of the problems for which it has been blamed. Anyone who wants to understand what's at stake in the globalization wars must read In Defense of Globalization.

The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing

by Henry Blodget

"This book won’t tell you how to pick stocks.  It won’t tell you how to get rich quick. It won’t tell you how to whip Warren Buffett in your spare time. What this book will tell you is how to be a smarter investor. It will tell you why you shouldn’t try to pick stocks, get rich quick, or whip Warren Buffett."

What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen

by Eric Weiner

Here, at long last, are the Masters of the Universe and the con men; the backroom geniuses and the power-tie billionaires-all in first person, uncensored, brash, bold, and often not so fond of one another. This book is the most vibrant business history published in years, perfect for anyone who wishes they had been a fly on the boardroom wall.

The FairTax Book

by Neal Boortz with Congressman John Linder

Boortz and Linder are leading the charge to phase out our current, unfair system and enact the FairTax Plan, replacing the federal income tax and withholding system with a simple 23 percent retail sales tax on new goods and services.

American Sucker

by David Denby

David Denby recounts his rise and fall with the high-tech bubble of the late 1990s. His account of madness and recovered sanity is written with rueful insight and bitter humor that only a wiser man could attain. With wit, warmth, and tough-minded candor, Denby explores not only his own motives and illusions, but the whole panoply of desire, greed, and willful blindness that consumed the nation.

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street

by William Silber

The outbreak of WWI in 1914 yielded a gold outflow the jeopardized America's reputation with creditor nations and sent the world market value of the dollar into a tailspin. Enter Treasury Secretary William McAdoo, lawyer turned financier, who closed the New York Stock Exchange for four months, beginning on July 31, 1914. Silber follows McAdoo's trials and tribulations as he creates the Federal Reserve and averts disaster with a clinical, well-sourced narrative.

On The Wealth of Nations

by P.J. O'Rourke

While irreverently dissecting Adam Smith's 18th-century antimercantilist classic, The Wealth of Nations, O'Rourke continues the dogged advocacy of free-market economics of his own books, such as Eat the Rich. His analysis renders Smith's opus more accessible, while providing the perfect launching pad for O'Rourke's opinions on contemporary subjects.

Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Credit

by Robert Manning

The years between 1980 and 1994 saw annual consumer charges skyrocket from $170 billion to $581 billion, with the average household carrying over $4,000 in revolving debt. With credit-card debt choking American prosperity off at the neck, Manning's book is a fascinating and timely chronicle of America's tortured relationship to money--and the future crisis that looms as a result of our overwhelming reliance on credit.

Money, A Memoir

by Liz Perle

There's a direct correlation between how well a woman takes care of herself financially and how well she feels about herself. So claims Perle's book, an exploration of how women spend, ignore and feel about one of the world's most important and controversial subjects: money.

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst

by Dan Reingold

Reingold, a prominent Wall Street analyst from 1989 to 2003, sets out to give a first-person narrative about business fraud and scandal. He claims the book's contents are true, and unfair and often-illegal use of inside information continues. He believes that the average investor can never win the stock-market game, which belongs to the insiders.

Take on the Street

by Arthur Levitt

Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. A culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it hard to tell financial fantasy from reality, salesmanship from honest advice. Levitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, shows how you can take matters into your own hands.

The Trust Equation
by Steven Drozdeck & Lyn Fisher

The Trust Equation reveals valuable investment philosophies and business beliefs from 19 successful and client-oriented financial advisors.  These veteran experts share not only their knowledge and experience with you, but also give their opinions on money management, financial planning, wealth management and other important areas.

Jack Waymire, founder of the Paladin Registry teaches investors how to overcome the daunting task of finding a competent, trustworthy financial advisor. Who’s Watching Your Money? outlines the 17 Paladin Principles that, when followed, will dramatically increase your probability of finding a quality advisor who can help secure your financial future.

Bogle on Mutual Funds:

New Perspectives for the Intellectual Investor

by John Bogle

Bogle not only explains the basic principles of canny mutual fund investing, but also explores its subtle nuances and exposes the hype and fads that often lure investors into making unwise decisions.

Millions of investors may be victims of broker fraud.  Are you one of them?  Can you recover your losses?  Daniel Solin explores various was that brokers have cheated their clients and he discuss ways to reclaim your lost money.

The Unbeatable Market exposes the profound confusion that passes for wisdom on Wall Street.  Instead of the usual how-to-beat-the-market doubletalk, it offers clear thinking along with a common sense approach to investing.

Devil Take the Hindmost

by Edward Chancellor

Devil Take the Hindmost is an original and challenging history of stock-market speculation from the seventeenth century to the present day. Through vivid accounts of the speculative activities (wise and unwise) of investors ranging from Daniel Defoe and Benjamin Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward Chancellor shows that speculation is not driven solely by the desire to make money--by fear and greed--but springs from a wider range of human compulsions and aspirations.

An unconventional guide to investing in Wall Street tells how to put together a broad portfolio of stocks through sidestepping the experts and how to rate the potential of a stock, bond, money market fund, or other investment.

The authors describe the burgeoning new era of research to reveal why people spend, invest, save, borrow, and waste money. They also offer dozens of helpful tips that help readers overcome the blind spots that cloud financial judgment.

When the 1974 recession hit Wall Street, investment professionals desperately turned to academia to help regain the value of their clients' holdings. Bernstein shows how Wall Street finally embraced the advances wrought in academic seminars and technical journals that ultimately transformed the art of investing.

What is it that distinguishes the thousands of years of history from what we think of as modern times? This is the question Peter L. Bernstein asks in the beginning of his new book, Against the Gods, and the answer put simply is...risk management.

Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk, Second Edition, is the revised edition of the best-selling reference book on asset allocation with completely updated facts and figures. Inside you'll find a comprehensive review of the capital market theory behind asset allocation, plus step-by-step guidelines for designing and implementing appropriate asset allocation strategies. This is essential reading for anyone who advises individuals and/or institutional clients regarding the investment of money.

This booklet offers a framework for assisting advisors and trustees in the development of a system which will fulfill their fiduciary obligations. The standards outlined in this booklet will aid trustees in attaining the greatest value for their plans.

Must read for all trust fiduciaries, retirement plan sponsors, advisors, etc. This recent restatement of the Prudent Investor Rule recognizes the contributions of Modern Portfolio Theory, indexing, and asset class diversification. Ignorance of the law is no excuse!

Die Rich and Tax Free
by Barry Kaye

Barry Kaye, one of the nation's foremost experts on estate planning, outlines more than 50 techniques for preserving and creating wealth. He explains how to increase an IRA or pension 10 to 20 times, increase charitable contributions at no cost, double a gross estate and triple a net estate, turn $100,000 a year into $86 million, and more. 

In this bestseller, Mr. Gerber dispels the myths of starting a business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He draws the distinction between working on your business and working in your business.

Profiles four composite women in different life situations and follows each as she deals with grief and loneliness, organizes her finances, works with financial advisors, develops a budget and investment plan, and protects her assets. 

10 Questions To Ask When Choosing a Financial Planner

Use this pamphlet as an interview checklist when choosing a financial planning/investment advisory firm.