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If you understand the fiscal situation this country is in, the place the elected & non-elected officials wanna take it, and what will happen after that has taken place, this book is dead on.

Monetary policy in this country(USA) has been flawed since the inception of the federal reserve system in 1913. The Monetarist economists(Widely known as Anna J Schwartz & Milton Friedman) blame the fed's lack of action as the cause of the great depression. They believe if the fed had intervened and created a little more inflation at the time the deflation was occuring(aka Deflationary Depression), the Great depression would have lasted only 1-5 years. Ben Bernanke (current FED Chairperson) believes this theory, that's why he's currently inflating that debt away through bail-outs.

On the other hand, Hard money Economists (aka Ludwig von Mises' Austrian school of economics) blames the fed completely for the Great Depression. Since their inception in 1913 the fed has fueled massive credit bubbles and the roaring 20's were no different. From 1913-1919 the fed increased the money supply by around 50% leading to the credit induced boom known as the roaring 1920's. When they finally called in all the inflationary credit they had put out, it killed the economy. Instead of letting the money stay out, they kept deflating the bubble which fueled the longest economic downturn in US history.

Today our economists and financial leaders will make sure not to repeat that mistake again. The system will not be allowed to go broke, almost everyone will get a huge bailout, and when they do, the countries who hold our short term US debt will begin dumping it, due to its losing value thanks to the bailouts.

If you believe the dollar is gonna take a hit over the next 5-10 years, then dedicating some of your portfolio (10-25%) to precious metals and watching what happens is going to be very exciting. If you paid attention to the 60s & 70s, you would notice some odd but scary similarities, huge needless wars followed by inflationary downturns in the economy. The 1970's bad economy was the price for the 1960's vietnam war. Remember, Nixon took us off the Gold Standard in 1971 when gold was only $35 an Ounce(today its ~$900). During the 70s the DOW Jones only gained 10 points but gold jumped almost 24 times, silver more. This time its gonna be a lot worse. I think physical silver is the best deal, as long as you can find some quality physical without a high retail purchase fee.

James turk is a pro and this book ranks high on the list of profit from the coming gloom & doom books. If you want to implement a section of your portfolio into precious metals this book is a great way to learn some very helpful tactics. He writes about what types of Precious Metals investments you can buy: Physcical(keep@home&vault), Paper(futures/options), Mining stocks, Numismatic, but doesn't really mention his world-renowned service called GOLDMONEY.com located in British Jersey,UK. I personally have an account with GoldMoney.com and I feel its a one of a kind service. It keeps part of your wealth outside the US, which is very important. My say is Pick up the book and Partake in the Precious Metals bull market that will last for the next 5-10 years minimum, and create some wealth during the bad times we're gonna go through :)

I also recommend the book CRASHPROOF by Peter Schiff (he recommends GoldMoney.com)

TO: Mr. John Rubino/Mr. James Turk BRAVO on your tour de force book that lays out the Truth, unencumbered, and with sobering and simple recommendations on how to save ones self from financial ruin in the next couple of years, and now for that matter.

The comparisons of other empires that have economically collapsed (due to fiat currencies, fractional reserve banking, etc), most mighty nations in history, is an invaluable inclusion to the beginning of the book to give unaware readers perspective at how close to the edge the United States is.

Since 2000, this is what I have been telling people and you both are the first ones I have really seen to make the case in clear terms and dire warnings, with simple steps to protect ones self.. You guys are the best and your book has been a GOLD mine, literally... You guys strike at the heart of the Truth and expose it good, bad, ugly..
This book is small enough, inexpensive enough, and valuable enough to buy a dozen copies and hand them out to relatives, good friends, and those you care about... Simple enough for the economic laymen (most of Americans) to wake up to! People with HUNDREDS of thousand's of USD$$$ in stocks, bonds, over leveraged homes/real estate, etc etc.. This book and information is vital to their future. They could save themselves but unfortunately many will choose not to and will bury their heads and follow the herd of "mainstream" money managers...

I will keep on tyring to wake people up and inform them of the peril ahead, though sadly few have listened to me since I was recommending gold at $320 in 2001 or so... Silver at $5 back then too... Sometimes I am ashamed to be American because of my fellow Americans who have lost their critical thinking skills, independent thought, discernment, and a healthy ongoing distrust of government and Elites... to be and STAY free and economically sound, as an individual, family, or nation, we MUST be informed, vigilant, and critical of all orthodox information and mainstream opinion and most of all, government promises...

You guys are the bright spots of Truth in American economics! BRAVO!

Oh Wow.. Every one should get this Bible. Amazing; it gives you deep details how to profit from precious metals, and gold on top of them. A question to all; who created Gold? Answer is "God." Now who created Dollar? Answer is "Human." In the end Who will win God or human? Answer is left to all of you!!

For anyone interested in the dynamics of our falling dollar, this book: "The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It" is a must read. I was led to it after reading the author's: "How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust." I was delighted to find: "The Collapse of the Dollar's" paperback version updated (containing 2007 numbers)! It's amazing how visionary the author has been. Morover, the book is easy to read/understand. I highly recommend...

I bought the book when it first came out. More importantly, I ACTED on the book's advice. I bought gold, silver, Goldcorp(GG) and a lot more. Goldcorp was selling for about $12 per share at the time. Gold hadn't gone beyond about $430 per ounce. The dollar was trading much higher than it is now. Goldcorp is now at about $40 per share. Gold is near $950 per ounce. Silver is at $18 per ounce. Suffice it to say that if I ever have the chance to meet Mssrs Turk and Rubino in person, I will pick up the tab for dinner!
I had to smile when I read some of the reviews which have been posted on this site. I guess that some people still do not "get it" when it comes to the role of gold in protecting assets and purchasing power. Although the book's title speaks of making a fortune by investing in gold and hard assets, this book is not really a get rich quick book. It is a survival book. With everything that has been happening in the financial sector, the most important thing for all of us is to protect what we have!

Im very satisfied with the service of amazon,however it would be a good idea to show the size of letter because is too small and eventually it gets tired to read those books,in fact is the second book i bought and i didnt expect that size of fountain
Thank you

All of the great reviews I read say it ALL. This book is a timeless classic & a great educator for all who take the time to read it. Some are under the false thought that this great work is only for those in sales or that the book's ONLY objective is to make money. This book is for True success in ALL areas of life!

If it is not already, this book should be on the recommended reading list for All High School Graduates, so they can get a off to a good roaring start in life! It has pushed me to SUCCESS!

I sure wish I had it when I came out of school
Tangela Cook
www.door4futureprofits.com

If you are looking to start a business, advance in your career or develop the mind of a young individual this is the best starter book. Napoleon Hill's philosophy about weatlth and mindset is bar non the best (based off of Andrew Carnegie)content I ever read. This book got me the right mindset to launch my real estate investing business. A must read!

A true classic. The grand grand father of all self help books. Stand the test of time. Very helpful indeed. Must read.

p.s. Below please find some of my favorite "and classical" passages for your reference.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve. pg 32

Knowledge becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end. pg 76

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. pg 138

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. pg 141

Men who accumulate great fortunes are generally known as cold blooded, and sometimes ruthless. Often they are misunderstood. What they have is will power, which they mix with persistence, and place back of their desires to insure the attainment of their objectives. pg 151

This book is a classic that I read twenty years ago and wanted to have my own copy as I think it is a good reference for self-improvement. It has stood the test of time.

The book is easy to read and the concepts are not difficult to understand. I have not had a chance to try the 30 evaluation yet but will soon.
I received an email Friday from TradersCoach.com with an example of a DOW chart. Bennett said the DOW could drop another 1000 points soon. Today, Monday the DOW was down 800 points at one point.

I am a veteran of trading for more than 30+ years. I have never been a passive investor I am hands-on and a former member of the NYSE, ASE, CBOE, PHLX etc.

I have studied this industry through all of my successes and travails, always seeking new insight.

It is my opinion that The Art of Trading affords the readers a new, relevant look into trading that will benefit all. I am not going to say it is the Holy Grail but than again that is pure fancy.

It is attached to a software product that offers a 15 day trial.

JAC

It is written in layman words & is a very easy read.
The nice thing is it comes with a 30 free trial to the system, which I am looking forward to.
It explains the ART System clearly & precisely & gives excellent recommendations for implementing the strategies. It gives precise Entry, Exit, Stops & Targets, & explains how these have more meaning in real time not after the fact as most indicators do.
Not only does it explain the System, but gives comprehensive instruction to handle the psychology of the market & ones own personality.
A simple & straight forward approach on how to succeed in the markets long term. Well thought out, with plenty of insight to money management & preparing a trading plan.

A very useful book, giving a complete, reliable & straight forward approach to trading in any time frame or any style.

Thanks Bennett.

This book was very organized and well written. Although the ART software that is referenced in the book is proprietary, the book has abundant and generally useful information on the business and art of trading. The sections on calculating trade size and setting stops are extremely valuable as well as the information on determining what kind of a trader you are (i.e. position trader, day trader, scalper etc.) along with the types of markets to choose.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a fundamental understanding of trading and to establish their trading practice on a firm foundation. The outcome of reading the book, for me, was to undertake an evaluation of the ART software as a TradStation plugin.

Happy Trading!

Bennett consolidates his many years of experience to provide a high-level reference for traders. The book refers to the components of a successful methodology as pieces of a pie. For long-term success as a trader, complete and thorough coverage of all are necessary. The chapter on creating a business plan and identifying your own trading "style" are especially good.

The book and DVD videos cover all aspects of the ART methodology. The use of notes directly on the charts provides clarity that is often not found in other books which have you flipping pages to get back to an illustration.

As a user of the software, I found that the coverage of all trading styles to be very useful. Markets go through various periods and different approaches are needed. Bennett covers the ART techniques for trading bracketed, trending and counter-trending markets, as well as scalping.

This book is a very welcome addition to my library.

I'm a full time artist and bought this book to make sense of my tax mess. It was entertaining to read, and laid out a clear and easy plan for me to follow. This is EXACTLY what every artist needs to read.

This book is head and shoulders above most other books on the market of its kind. Most books gloss over and repeat what is freely available in the tax booklets; this book explains and expands on that information. Plus, it gives you tips on how to plan ahead so as to take legal advantage of the tax opportunities offered within the tax code. It is well organized and a certain reliable resource for self employed individuals.

By far the best self-employed book on taxes that I have read to this day! A must read for anyone who has been in business and would like to understand better what the CPA is saying, and a definite must for anyone thinking about being self-employed.

This book was OK. I agree with the alliteration criticism of the other reader. Too much like fantasy. Too many references and suggestions that you MUST get a professional preparer or take your records to a professional preparer/accountant. Why bother reading this book if I wanted to pay someone else to do my taxes? The author's "Most Simple System" is a re-hash of Fluery's "No Entry Accounting" system in his book from years ago called "Small Business Survival Guide" only Fluery takes it a step further and recommends you doing your own taxes. Ms. Walker takes you to the brink of this but falls short. You've already done 95% of the work with her "system" so why not finish it? I recommend you start with this book then read "Small Business Survival Guide" and you'll be in good shape and not have to pay an accountant to do your taxes. Fluery's book is out of date but the Schedule C hasn't changed all that much since that book was published. Get a new version of Sch. C, combine the info from both books and you are all set.

Finally, this book repeats itself over and over. It could be half as long.

"Self-Employed Tax Solutions" is an excellent self help start to treating your cottage industry as a business and working your way through the intricacies of filing federal taxes as a small business. Ms. Walker's explanations are clear and well illustrated.
We had no trouble understanding each point and applying the rules to our own small business situation. The only problem we found was her citing a court ruling, putting it in quotes, and not providing a bibliographic source.
Both the glossary and the index are adequate for the novice readers. The style was breezy and light, which made the reading easy.
A good place to start for an entry level "indie" who needs basic tax information. She has several "wish I'd thought of that" ideas for keeping records and saving time.
Nash Black, author of "Taxes, Stumbling Blocks and Pitfalls for Authors."

A very good book. Written in a very easy way. Just can't stop reading it.

I'm a newbie to options and find this book very understandable. The analogies in the book help one understand the nature of options.

My only criticism is that the book is not indexed. If I want to review a certain concept, sometimes it's difficult to relocate it because there is no index.

Bill Johnsons Options 101 trading book is an excellent introduction to the how's and why's of option trading. The style of this book is exactly like many college math and science textbooks with examples and problem sets. I personally have benefited from the discourse on the "roll-up," which is a strategy I had not come across previously in other training material.

The book suffers, however, from poor proof-reading of the arithmetic. There are many places where the numbers don't add-up to what the words are saying, and vice-versa. Some may find that scribbling the corrections in the margins improves comprehension but if your arithmetic skills are weak then this book may not be for you. I think Options Trading 101 deserves a 2nd edition to correct the errors.

I got somewhat impatient with the basic and repetitive nature of the first third of this book, but pace and complexity really picked up as things went along. The description of synthetic options was eye-opening, and introduction to spreads near the end was very good. Recommended as beginner to intermediate text.

This book had so many errors and blatant contradictions it was more confusing than the genealogy of Jesus. It will have your head spinning so fast some may mistake you for Linda Blair! The author blitzes the reader with math and details the understanding of which simply is unnecessary in order to trade options and could easily intimidate someone new to trading. The excessive errors found throughout the text are inexcusable, especially for a technical book. When practical applications are finally covered in the final third of the book, we aren't presented with anything really interesting. The Iron Condor strategy is mentioned once earlier but is quickly dismissed in a condescending manner as if someone who could thread through all that math wouldn't easily pick up that relatively simple concept! If you are new to trading and don't want to be more confused after you read this book than before you picked it up, this one should be avoided.

Is your company working hard to deliver value to customers?
Are you facing increasingly tough competition, possibly from new competitors?
And are you struggling to address cost pressures from your suppliers?

If you answered YES to one or more of these questions then you probably need some help with your pricing. Many studies show that of all marketing variables, pricing has the most impact on the bottom line. But where should you look for advice so you can make your pricing decisions with confidence? The answer: Pricing with Confidence by Reed Holden and Mark Burton. Holden and Burton have written a highly readable, practically oriented book for making pricing decisions; their 10 Rules of Pricing can vastly improve your decision-making. Think about this question: Why is pricing so hard and why do most companies mess it up? Holden and Burton pose this question in their Introduction. Could your firm be one of those they are talking about? If you believe that pricing is hard in your firm and that you don't always get it right, then pick up Pricing with Confidence; you'll be glad you did.

Noel Capon
R.C. Kopf Professor of International Marketing and Director of the Executive Program in Strategic Pricing, Columbia Business School, New York, New York.

As a forum leader for a group of CEOs of small, growing businesses, we used this book to help us in understanding whether the pricing strategies each of our businesses used were optimizing their market and sales successes. Since many of these small companies compete with some of the largest players in their respective industries, it was revealing to each of them to see their realities detailed so clearly by the authors. It has led each of them to engage in more thinking and analysis relative to a pricing strategy that matches their value offering. This is a must read for any small business up against the big guys.

Pricing with confidence

I have heard Reed Holden speak in a number of venues. I was happy to hear he was contemplating a book on the practical end of the spectrum for a selling organization. This endeavor revolves around easily understood concepts that a selling organization can apply.

Reed constantly says "Don't be a victim", apparently a phrase he learned many years ago, which ties in with the thrust of the project. Don't be satisfied with what the market place gives you. You can price your product and the services you offer at a level consistent with the value you bring. Far from just cheerleading, you must have done your homework before hand and this will give you the confidence to overcome the objections you will receive.

In the book are simple methods to organize your thoughts to understand your value, which may change with different classes of trade. You can then set your price points and defend them successfully. If you are not successful there is a unique chapter to characterize the type of buyer you are facing. Price buyers, Value buyers, Relationship buyers, and Poker Playing buyers all have different agendas and your defense of your value may be valid, but not successful with each of the above types. Just the recognition of this is valuable to the salesman and may point to different strategies or more importantly not confusing strategies.

In my organization I know the publication is making a difference when a proposed price point strategy is being justified by a thought process described in the book. The sales person in the meeting is defending his stance among his peers who can be rather harsh to test his logic.

A good read that should be placed on the shelf for extensive use as a reference book.

Buy the book. It's a good read for sales, customer service and yes, even accounting.

I liked this book a lot. I thought it was well outlined and well written. The book's overall message is that the small business owner should link prices to the value delivered. The reader should be able to optimize pricing for her services or products after considering the 10 rules of pricing presented in this book:

1. Generally, don't let the customer talk you down in price
2. Price your service or product at a level that a customer is willing to pay if they understand the value of your service or product
3. Know which of three pricing strategies you are using and stick to it
4. It's OK to negotiate price with customers, but make sure you win
5. It's OK to lower prices, but only in order to increase profits
6. Expand your offerings so you aren't locked into one price for one product
7. Great pricing will often force your competition to react to your pricing
8. Your company's sales force has to be expert at why and how you priced your services or products
9. Set prices based on value - not on cost-plus
10. Always keep in mind you are in business to make a profit without leaving money on the table

I loved the instruction that the author provides regarding how an owner of a small business has to be willing (and able) to fire unprofitable clients and customers. Business people who compete on price are playing a fool's game. Smart business owners understand that value is the basis for business exchange and that to be successful at business one must FULLY understand value. This book puts forth a pretty good effort to help the reader fully understand value, or at least how to go about fully understanding value after doing a little investigation and research of the market.

Pricing goods and/or services is far from simple. And setting an optimal price is one of the most difficult decisions to make when starting a business. Furthermore, as a business grows and matures pricing at an optimal level continues to be difficult. Prices never stay the same because demand never stays the same. To do this well one must know the market (competitors & customers), know the costs, know the perceived value, and know the actual value.

Getting a handle on all this is not particularly easy. This is especially true because customers are often times very hard to figure out. Some are price buyers, some are value buyers, some are relationship buyers, and some are poker-playing buyers. Knowing these four types of buyers is a heads up for the small business person. But he or she still has to read the customer and figure out which one of these four the customer is before negotiations can be performed in favor of the seller. Read this book and start on your path of being a better pricer of your services or goods. 5 stars!

He has some good ideas, but I would say skip Bach and read Dave Ramsey. His plan is much better at helping you actually build wealth.

This is a great book for ADD individuals especially if you struggle with money management. It is so simple and easy to complete the steps. This is the first book in a long time that I actually finished!

If you are looking for a magic bullet do not purchase this book. But if real, down-to-earth suggestions for getting out from under the monster of debt is what you are looking for buy this book and apply the concepts. They are easy and effective.

I really enjoy reading any of the books that David Bach has written. This is another great book that can really help you stay on track with your finances.

David Bach has changed my life.
Before this workbook and the Automatic Millionaire book my wife and I where like everyone else and not saving a lot towards our retirement. Now we are both maxing out our retirement funds by making easy adjustments to our spending habits and now we are on track to retire multi-millionaires. So be sure that you get the Automatic Millionaire book first and then if you want to see and work the examples on paper get the workbook.
Thanks David Bach!!!

I love this book because it have a lot of good information for you to think about for a startup. This book has fill in templates to help get you on the right track. This book is not about writting a business plan. It's about the things you need to do that is critical to your startup business. It may be simple, or you may say i knew that, but i know there are alot of people in business that did not do the things in this book.

This book was an easy read and recommend it to anyone that doens't have owning their own business experience.

Rhonda Abrams lays the down the bear bones of starting a business. She lists what you need to do and provides a lot of the forms that need filling out, etc (but these may be outdated so you should check) and in plain english, explains how to get thing done...but that is all this book is...nothing more, nothing less.

The title is enticing. Anyone that has started a business knows that 6 weeks is ambitious. This 6 weeks does not take hold ups that may be out of your control into account. For example, if you send you LLC formation paperwork to the Secretary of State it may take 3+ weeks to be filed, whereas if you go to the Secretary of State you may be complete in one day. Always assume the fast track if you aiming for things to be doen in 6 weeks.

This book is a great, simple, non-threatening place to start but this should not be your only "small business" book on your shelf.

Maybe if you are business-retarded this book might give you some ideas about the process of starting a business. But most of the material can be found worded differently by online articles or by using some common sense. Therefore, the book really does not provide any unique perspectives or tricks. Anytime a book gives you the impression that you can achieve something in a short period of time or simplifies it in a few steps, you know the author has watered the topic down so much that it ends up being a waste of time. But, hey its a good marketing strategy; it got me to buy it!

I'm a technology guy looking for a high-tech start-up book that really teaches you the "ins and outs." Does anyone have any recommendations?

Has some good tips, but there is a lot of fluff just to fill pages. There numerous worksheets to fill out, but there is no assistance is analyzing what you filled in on the sheets, other than to just think about it. You will not start most small businesses with this book's approach.

The product was as it was described. I received the text in a timely manner, actually it was soon after the purchase.

It is a very good book, but might be rather basic for advanced financial people. However, it is very easy to follow, so it might be good.

This book is a great introduction for someone with little background in economics or finance. It is also a good refresher for people that do have backgroungs in finance. I used it for the latter purpose and I still learned some things that I never previously knew. This book goes into a comprehensive examination of interest rates, fixed income securities, derivatives, and stocks. Easy to read and understand. Well written.

If you are unsure if staging works, you will get a definite hard sell that it does in this book. Over, and over, and over again. To the point of being tedious. However there is some good information to be found here. Just didn't take the 288 pages to do it. Cut to the chase, tips include fresh paint, clean the place, get rid of clutter, depersonalize the house. In short, you are trying to sell a product. Spruce it up! Its all in the packaging. Rest is fluff and repetition, such as convincing you that staging works. Apparently the author felt the reader could not get that in a few sentences or even a chapter. Would have given a higher rating if it was less monotonous on that topic.

If you are selling your home, this book will help you get ready. It has a variety of ideas. Some are complicated, some are expensive, but many are simple and easily implemented. The author helps you understand you are not selling your home, you are selling a house to be someone else's home. If this is the only thing you get from this book it is worth the price and time you invest in buying and reading it. I higly recommend it.

This book is full of helpful advice when undertaking the tremendous task of selling and moving out of your house. Some of the advice is common sense, but they offer great ideas.

Teri B. Clark shares her expert tips on how to make your house look like a model home to showcase its potential to prospective buyers. Each page is filled with tricks of the trade and advice from professionals, and each chapter is summarized with a numbered tip list for easy reference. The book also includes before and after photos, as well as true stories of houses that sold for more than the asking price.

I recommend this book to everyone, regardless of whether they have a house to sell. Who doesn't want their house to look like a model home? Or, at the very least, sparkling clean, less cluttered, and more stylish? Teri B. Clark has written a do-it-yourself, fix-it-up, reorganization, cleaning, and decorating manual all rolled into one! The best part about her cleaning tips is that all of her methods entail using natural products such as orange oil and baking soda--very Earth and wallet friendly. There is an entire chapter on how to stage your home on a shoestring budget, which is ideal, especially in the current marketplace. She has ingenious ideas, and she demonstrates with data that a small investment can bring a large return. This is a tremendously useful book for all homeowners.

Even if you are not planning on selling your house any time soon, this would be a good book to have around. In fact, by the time you get through following all of the advice here, you might not even want to sell, but if still do, there is a very good chance that you will indeed see the benefits of getting up to10 percent more from the sale.

This book looks at everything from the inside out, and from top to bottom. It is probably not the type of book you would just sit down and read from cover to cover, though you could because its style is easy to read as well as informative. Some of the best features include "This Could Be You" success stories interspersed throughout the book. These achieve their goal to inspire the reader. While these are balanced with the rest of the text, at times some of the other inserted text boxes almost become annoying. For example, the Professional Bonus Tips are helpful, but sometimes they seem to be overused. This is especially evident in the chapter, "Putting It All Back together," where it seems that most of the chapter is made up of text boxes instead of text.


Aside from this formatting issue, the tips are valuable and range from advice about how to pay attention to the smallest details such as wiping clean light switch covers to more significant aspects of staging, such as depersonalization in order to appeal to the largest number of perspective home buyers.

Before and after photographs are used to illustrate some of the main points. These include color insets and some smaller black and whites throughout. Sometimes the quality of these are not all that great--in a few cases the before and after photos are not take from exactly the same perspective in the room. Still, most of the photos do help to get the point across, so they are generally are useful.

All in all, this book is inspiring. It makes me want to get off the couch and transform my own home even though I had no plans of selling. I suspect it can have the same the effects on you as well.