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Crystal Paine, who has helped busy women everywhere take control of their finances, presents her most effective strategies designed for families of all sizes and income levels.

With hundreds of inspiring “why didn’t I think of that?” TIPS, plus WORKSHEETS, Paine breaks down your goals into easy, manageable steps so you can:

• Achieve a complete financial makeover
• Set up a realistic budget
• Never pay retail
• Slash your grocery bill
• Organize your time & your home
• Use coupons wisely
• Pay with cash only
• Live simply
• Become debt free
• Choose contentment
• Make every dollar count

For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been archetypes, first of Wall Street’s boom years and then of its excesses. Their story and that of their firm – the biggest, most successful and most controversial participant in the age of leverage – illuminates an entire era of financial high jinks and speculative mania. Kravis and Roberts wrote their way into the history books by concocting one giant takeover after another. Their technique: the leveraged buyout, an audacious way to acquire a company with borrowed money, borrowed management – and a lot of nerve. Their firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., dominated the Wall Street scene in the late 1980s, acquiring one Fortune 500 company after another, including Safeway, Duracell, Motel 6, and RJR Nabisco. This book draws on more than 250 interviews, including recurring access to the central figures and their KKR associates, as well as confidential documents and private correspondence to couch giant financial issues in human terms. “Merchants of Debt” shows how pride, jealousy, fear, and ambition fuelled Wall Street’s debt mania – with consequences that affected hundreds of thousands of people. The book addresses 3 questions – why did American business become so enchanted by debt in the 1980s? How exactly did Kravis and Roberts rise to the top of the heap? What have buyouts, especially KKR’s deals, done to America’s economic strength? In the tradition of “Barbarians at the Gate” and “The House of Morgan” this is a saga that takes readers behind closed boardroom doors to show how star-struck young bankers, ruthless deal-makers, and nervous CEOs changed one another’s lives – and the whole American economy – over a 15 year span.

The financial crisis of 2007–8 has been widely understood as a result of the financial system’s exceeding its proper place in society; the system became unbalanced, unsustainable, and deprived of a solid foundation. Even as capitalist finance seeks to reinvent itself in the wake of massive upheaval, critics continue to portray the financial system as fundamentally irrational—an unstable, destructive inventor of fictitious money. Characterizing finance in this way, however, neglects the growing connection between the worlds of high finance and consumer credit. The essays in this special issue take the financial crisis as an opportunity for much-needed conceptual innovation. Its contributors move beyond strictly moralistic criticisms of financialization to rethink core economic categories such as money, speculation, measure, value, and the wage, as well as the relationship among labor, finance, and money.

Melinda Cooper is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy, also published by Duke University Press. Martijn Konings is Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Development of American Finance.

Contributors: Lisa Adkins, Fiona Allon, Dick Bryan, Melinda Cooper, Marieke de Goede, Chris Jefferis, Martijn Konings, Randy Martin, Michael Rafferty

The United States monetary system is complex.

Money is not what you think it is.

Debt Inflation provides the clarity that is needed.
Why should you care about the monetary system?

The monetary system is like a game. As a participant of the economy you are a player in this game. A clear understanding of how the game works will provide you a significant strategic advantage.
In these pages the monetary system game is deconstructed. Difficult economic concepts are addressed with remarkable clarity. Page after page compelling points pile up, one upon the other, until two extraordinary benefits emerge:
ECONOMIC BREAKTHROUGH: An accurate method for determining the true inflation rate of the dollar is devised. Reliance on “official government inflation numbers” is no longer necessary. The numbers are real, and the conclusions are surprising.
FINANCIAL TRIUMPH: A clever plan for winning the monetary system game is exposed. Incredibly, you will learn how to identify when an economic downturn is lurking around the corner. With this information, you can sell investments and prepare your personal finances months before asset values tumble and recessions develop.
Inside you will discover original ideas and perspectives that are not found in any other book.
Debt Inflation is not a restatement or reorganization of the same old ideas and catch-phrases.
These are new ideas. This is a fresh perspective.

For anyone who wants to get out of debt…

Do your money problems keep you up at night worrying? Do you stress about not having any money left to pay your bills after buying basic necessities? Does it seem like no matter how much you pay off, your debt only increases? More and more people are finding themselves struggling with debt, whether it is from their massive student loans, the mortgage on their home, car loans, or credit card debt. Even those who have great paying jobs often will end up living from paycheck to paycheck.

Stop making choices that are driving you further into debt…

For the first time, two bestselling money management books have been collected into a single volume, Debt Free Forever. This definitive collection tackles some of the most serious problems those who are in debt suffer from, namely a poor credit rating and living well beyond their means. With Debt Free Forever, you will learn techniques that will help you repair your credit as well as strategies that will help you live much more frugally.

Debt Free Forever – The Definitive Collection on Living Frugally and Credit Repair contains the following two books:

Easy Credit Repair – Effective Strategies to Fix Even the Worst Credit Problems by Warren R. Sullivan Frugal Living – Learn Proven Techniques to Help You Live Within Your Means by Nicole Harrington

Take control of your life and finances today! Debt Free Forever is your first step to a better tomorrow!

Is it still worth it for low-income students to attend college, given the debt incurred? This book provides a new framework for evaluating the financial aid system in America, positing that aid must not only allow access to higher education, but also help students succeed in college and facilitate their financial health post-college.

• Reveals the inadequacy of the scope of the current educational and economic policy debates, including moves to funnel low-income children toward two-year degrees, structure alternative debt repayment schedules, and constrain increases in college tuition

• Answers the question: “Does the student who goes to college and graduates but has outstanding student debt achieve similar financial outcomes to the student who graduates from college without student debt?”

• Examines an important subject of interest to educators, students, and general readers that is related to the larger topics of education, economics, social problems, social policy, public policy, debt, and asset building

• Provides empirical evidence and theoretical support for a fundamental shift in U.S. financial aid policy, from debt dependence to asset empowerment, including an explanation of how institutional facilitation makes Children’s Savings Accounts potentially potent levers for children’s educational attainment and economic well-being, before, during, and after college

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David Graeber’s ”fresh . . . fascinating . . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” — (Financial Times) history of debt.

Anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: before there was money, there was debt. For more than five thousand years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods — that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion — words like ”guilt,’ ”sin,” and ”redemption” — derive in large part from ancient debates about debt and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history — as well as how it has defined human history and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.

Overwhelmed with debt? There is hope and freedom for you no matter how big your problem. Skyrocketing debt has crippled and divided millions in this age of rampant credit, interest-only mortgages, and record loan defaults. The way out from under debt burdens is not a declaration of bankruptcy, but surrender to the Word of God. Becoming debt-free may seem an impossible dream for many, but it is actually an attainable goal according to Howard Dayton, president of Crown Financial Ministries. He overcame his own struggle with debt by applying God’s principles to managing his finances, principles he lays out in this practical, encouraging, never-give-up book.

Dave Ramsey knows what it’s like to have it all. By age twenty-six, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business bestsellers Financial Peace and More than Enough, he has helped hundreds of thousands of people to understand the forces behind their financial distress and how to set things right-financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

In this new edition of Financial Peace, Ramsey has updated his tactics and philosophy to show even more readers:

how to get out of debt and stay outthe KISS rule of investing—”Keep It Simple, Stupid”how to use the principle of contentment to guide financial decision makinghow the flow of money can revolutionize relationships

With practical and easy to follow methods and personal anecdotes, Financial Peace is the road map to personal control, financial security, a new, vital family dynamic, and lifetime peace.

Imogen Quy–rhymes with why–is the witty, compassionate, and relentlessly inquisitive college nurse at St. Agatha’s College, Cambridge University. Unfortunately, St. Agatha’s has seen better days: Its financial affairs are in shambles, and the school is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
That is, until billionaire financier and St. Agatha’s College alum Sir Julius Farran decides to pay his alma mater a visit. Things are looking up for St. Agatha’s….but when Sir Julius suddenly dies in questionable circumstances, St. Agatha’s is in danger of closing forever. A nurse is a natural receiver of confidences, and Imogen soon learns that Sir Julius had far more enemies than friends. Her curiosity is initially piqued, but soon turns to alarm when Julius’s equally unpleasant son-in-law is found murdered. The case takes on particular urgency because Imogen’s former flame, Andrew Duncombe, had been working as Sir Julius’s right-hand man. Imogen must work what out really happened before Andrew is implicated in the murders–or becomes the next victim.
In her first case in more than a decade, Imogen Quy calls upon her clear thinking and insight into human nature to seek not only truth but justice. Readers will delight in the return of this “exemplary amateur sleuth” (Publishers Weekly) from a brilliant novelist in the best tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Josephine Tey.