FROM ONE OF NIELSEN’S TOP 50 POWER MOMS COMES ADVICE YOU CAN TAKE TO THE BANK—LITERALLY !
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
“If you wish, I can take you out of all this.”
In his quest for revenge against a disreputable card sharp, James, Earl of Cambourne, discovers the man’s innocent daughter. While her surroundings are impoverished, her dignity and refinement are unmistakable, and James faces an unsettling question—what will be her fate if he brings her father to justice?
Although yearning for love and comfort, Lucy resists the earl’s surprising offer of protection. That is until a price is made on her virginity, and James is the only man who can save her.
GOODBYE DEBT—HELLO FREEDOM!
Most of us grew up with the idea that there is good debt and there is bad debt. Good debts are generally considered to be debts you incur to buy things that can go up in value—like a home or college education. Bad debts are things like credit card balances, where you borrowed money to buy things that depreciate or go down in value, like most consumer goods.
But as America’s favorite financial coach, David Bach, points out, in difficult times there is no such thing as good debt. There is only debt. And all debt is too expensive—if what you desire is FREEDOM! In fact, Bach believes the best investment you can make today is to pay down your debt, faster and smarter than you have ever attempted before—starting today!
In Debt Free for Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author David Bach has written his most groundbreaking and important book since The Automatic Millionaire, giving us the knowledge, the tools, and the mindset we need to get out of debt and achieve financial freedom— forever! Offering a revolutionary approach to personal finance that teaches you how to pay down your debt and adopt a whole new way of living – debt free. Bach unveils the Debt Wise program that empowers you to pare down your debt automatically. You’ll learn how to calculate your Debt Freedom Day – the actual date you will be completely free of debt. And you’ll discover that when you are debt free, you need a lot less money to live on. You can retire, even with a smaller nest egg — perhaps earlier than you expected.
David Bach has coached millions to pay off their debt and now he can guide you. Whether you have home loans, student loans, car loans, credit card debt—paying down your debt is truly a game you can win, if you know the rules. Debt Free For Life will teach you the rules and give you the tools to buy back your freedom.
Whether it’s in the accounts of the White House or in the average American’s wallet, America has been carrying a balance. The country is so reliant on credit that we constantly add to our debt, despite the strain it puts on ourselves, the economy, and the nation as a whole. Regardless of our bad spending habits, credit still plays an important role in our current financial system. Without it, the economic train runs out of steam and grinds to a halt, as it did in the 2008 credit crunch. Credit gives us the power to buy greater items like homes or property, and even allows us to make investments and conduct business. It is so deeply rooted that service companies, property owners, and even prospective employers typically perform credit checks to ensure that new clients are able to cover their debt. Just see the facts and figures below: • $2.2 Trillion – according to the Federal Reserve Board, the overall amount of consumer debt in the United States in 2005, up nearly five-fold from just $824 billion as of 1990 • $16,635 – The amount of debt the average citizen in the United States holds excluding property debt such as mortgages, Experian reports • 55% of credit card holders in the United States kept a running debt on their cards in 2008, as reported by ComScore. • 984 million – the number of Mastercard and Visa accounts issued by banks just in 2006, as reported by the card companies themselves. • 4.2 billion offers for new credit cards were mailed to American households in just 2008 according to Mail Monitor, a tracking service that monitors credit cards in the mail. • 19% – The average interest rate of credit cards issued by banks in 2007, CardTrak.com’s online survey reports. Back in 2003, the mean interest rate was a mere 16.5% It is plain to see that credit is deeply-seated in our financial system, regardless of our ever-increasing debts. Clearly, credit is going to stick around awhile, and so the responsibility is on every American citizen and credit holder to make choices that keep them in the black. In our current situation it seems more consumers have fallen into the debt-trap, as consumers by the millions are exhausted to see they cannot keep up with payments on their debts. So, you are one such unfortunate credit consumer, and you find yourself in a credit crunch of your own. Fortunately, the content of this article will give you a view on new concepts that will help you to manage your credit debt and other such debts. It is important for every consumer to know these, so that they can use credit responsibly in their daily lives.
This book takes a glance at my journey and it’s designed to be a guide of sorts for those that are entering this industry. Although many of the topics and ideas are specific to the representatives that are on the floor, I believe that any new employee of this industry can benefit from the guidance.
Too many doctors are carrying perpetual debt and giving away a large chunk of each paycheck as interest to the bank. The Doctors Guide to Eliminating Debt can show you how to pay off debt faster than you imagined—including your house.
Being in debt is not a default condition. Understand the real cost and that it’s not too late to change the course of your financial life. Being debt-free is empowering, liberating, and invigorating, but most doctors don’t realize they can do it without significant sacrifice.
If you are feeling trapped by your financial obligations, realize there is a way out. In this book, you’ll find what you need to know to:
–Choose the best path if you are drowning in debt
–Recognize biased financial advice
–Pay off student loans and your house—faster than you expected
–Balance spending, loan repayment, and investing
–Make compound interest work for you, instead of against you
–Retire sooner than you expected
This second book in The Doctors Guide series shows you how to establish control of your money—and ultimately your life.
When former hitman, Jack Winchester agrees to help an old enemy solve a brutal case that has plagued the Florida Everglades, not even he could predict the terrifying outcome.From the gator-infested swamps of Florida to Miami’s glitz and glamour, Jack is about to come face to face with his worst fear.
An absolutely gripping thriller, packed with multiple jaw-dropping twists is guaranteed to keep you reading late into the night.
Ignited about crushing debt takes you through a journey where you learn about the steps to take control of your financial life. Debt has made many individuals its slave, and it’s time to turn a chapter and take control. With a simple step-by-step process Matthew Meyers take you on a journey of self discovery with easy to use tools in taking back your life. You deserve the opportunity to live a more fulfilling life, get ignited and crush the debt that has been holding you back.
Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor’s last gasp but an opportunity to catch one’s breath and recoup. Why has the nation’s legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country’s first bankruptcy code right out of English law, to the present day.
Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years–an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar–explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers–one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer bankruptcy.
The uniqueness of American bankruptcy has often been noted, but it has never been explained. As different as twenty-first century America is from the horse-and-buggy era origins of our bankruptcy laws, Skeel shows that the same political factors continue to shape our unique response to financial distress.
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade and therefore bolstered the expansion of the largest intercontinental forced migration in history.
Unlike previous histories of the RAC, Pettigrew’s study pursues the Company’s story beyond the trade’s complete deregulation in 1712 to its demise in 1752. Opening the trade led to its escalation, which provided a reliable supply of enslaved Africans to the mainland American colonies, thus playing a critical part in entrenching African slavery as the colonies’ preferred solution to the American problem of labor supply.