Budget Books

What a breath of fresh air to find a book that you can pick up & use just by opening it! You do not need to read every page to make use of the wonderful motivational ideas in here.

I found this especially useful when all my ideas sound the same or I'm just not getting any new ideas going! Great for youth group leaders, small businesses, school parent groups, and recreation centers.

I don't agree with everything he says in "solutions" chapter but it's a fantastic book. Even if it doesn't solve everything maybe it will at least get people talking. And you have to admire Ryan for putting his story out there. Where's the hardcopy edition?

It's a wonderful book for any young child that your child will love and remember forever.

Neely brings an informed and interesting perspective to problems of illegitimacy, crime, and welfare dependency. This book deserves to be read by everyone interested in really understanding these problems beyond the sound-bite level.

Valenti takes you through a ten-step planning process, that leads you to the end-result: building a training plan and budget. Some of the ten steps are: gathering data; deciding on current and new courses; determining delivery methods; and deciding whether to make or buy the program. The book presents questions to ask, a running case study, and clear templates to complete. It also helps the reader determine if training is the best response to the challenge at hand. The book is filled with high-quality content from start to finish. Strongly recommended.

A wonderful, vibrant, and energetic treatise on the Republican vision for a Better America. Packed with specificity not often seen by presidential candidates, Bob Dole and Jack Kemp lay out exactly what they would do if elected as President and Vice President, respectively. They provide their reasons for policy ideas and explain how and why they would work to unleash the full potential of the American Economy. The book is well structured, starting out by laying out the ideas of the Dole-Kemp Economic Plan and its goals. The remainder of the book is devoted to elaborating on those ideas, with it folded together into a cohesive framework in the conclusion. I closed the book feeling refreshed and optimistic for the future of America. But I was also saddened by the fact that Dole and Kemp never had the opportunity to demonstrate the efficacy of their vision. I would recommend this book to conservatives and non-conservatives alike. Conservatives will be inspired by the Dole-Kemp vision for a more Prosperous America. Non-conservatives will perhaps gain insight into the heart of Republican ideals, possibly even dispelling some common myths about the GOP - e.g. lacking compassion, favoring the rich, etc.

This is the best wedding planner portfolio ever. It comes in a plastic folder with a sturdy clasp and has a 12 month checklist, two books, a wedding planner guide to apparel and a planning booklet that has forms to use to hash out your budget and timelines. This book also has forms to plan your guest list, table planning, vendors. The kit also comes with 12 pocket folders that help you organize your reception, bakery, flowers, ceremony, music, photography, stationary, etc. I found these particulary useful when I am ripping out pages of magazines with articles or vendor ideas. I file them in the appropriate category and review them when I have the time. The whole kit is about 8 1/2 by 11 and about 2 inches thick. It fits in my work bag and is completely portable. I would recommend this to anyone who needs to get organized.

17 Chapters of pure financial literacy at its best.

The focus of this book is to offer the reader options that they can use to assist them in becoming financially free.

Included in the book is a great resource guide, and recommended reading list.

Get this book if your interested in the following:
Vital information on examining your own financial habits, patterns, and attitudes.

Insider secrets on turning back the tide of debt as quickly as and painlessly as possible.

Money saving techniques on maintaining financial freedom through all of the stages of life.

Time saving tips on spending wisely, saving smartly, and investing safely.

The latest trends in how to survive financial setbacks and stay financially free.

Handy checklists and charts for organizing your debts, scheduling payments, avoiding late fees, and much more.

I strongly recommend this book for the person wanting a manual on their finances.

Every American knows that George Washington started out as a Colonial surveyor. Few are aware that Washington's image on the almighty American dollar is framed by an Egyptian cartouche: a magic circle of rope--woven from Amazon grasses--that was folded, and tied, at the end. Royal cartouches guarded the Pharaoh's birth name from harm; Washington's name is printed directly above the cartouche knot on America's unit of currency.

Untangling the US Deficit is a densely packed survey of literature and theories that document and explain America's growing deficit in international trade. Richard Iley's book is written for graduate students and economists, but the text and theories are accessible to general readers.

The components of the trade deficit are well-known to American consumers: rising oil prices, and tidal waves of imports from countries that have adopted export-led growth strategies: Japan, Southeast Asia, and China.

By definition, a trade deficit must be matched by an inflow of borrowed funds from abroad. The opposing sides of the trade-deficit equations have given birth to a matrix of theories that view America's trade deficit from both domestic and foreign perspectives.
Of particular interest to this general reader were two theories that examine sources of deficit financing.

The twin-deficit theory posits that America's foreign-trade deficit is being financed by the federal government's budget deficit, through the sale of US treasury bonds to the central banks of foreign countries with trade surpluses. By 2006, foreigners owned 44% ($2 trillion) of the federal debt.

The household-sector theory adds America's growing household debt to the debt-financing equation. In 2005, the household-sector deficit exceeded the fiscal deficit. American homes are being used as personal ATM machines--households are financing increased spending by borrowing against the rising value of their homes.

The web of debt theories surveyed in Iley's book enable informed debates over the sustainability--and policy implications--of the trade deficit. Ben Bernanke, chairman of America's Federal Reserve Board of Governors, argues that Americans are consuming more than they produce only to accommodate a global savings glut. Widely praised former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan argues trade deficits are of no particular economic significance, and the accumulation of debt has few implications beyond the solvency of the debtors.

Since 1991, the US trade deficit has grown from near zero, to a forecast 8-12% of gross domestic product in 2010. Over the past two decades, the US has become the world's largest debtor country. Economist Paul Samuelson characterizes America's ever-growing empire of debt as the product of a "me-now-consume" culture.

Two hundred years ago, Colonial Americans claimed ownership of the very lands Washington had surveyed for the British. One decade into the third millennium, a new economic order may lie on the horizon.
In this reader's view, oil prices subsidized by the federal deficit enable American consumers to drive gas-guzzling cars to company stores, where they fill shopping carts with cheap imports by pledging future income--including their homes--to foreign governments, whose people long remember the inequities of colonial rule.

If America's Gordian knot of debt should come unraveled, owners of Richard Iley's book will be the first to know what happened, and why policy-making officials did nothing to prevent it.

This book was wonderful. It explained everything that you needed and didn't go into to much detail on on specific detail. I now use this book as a reference. It has Appendix A-E and each appendix talks about something different, like he tells you where you where you can buy the things you want and who manufatures them. I love the glossery, whenever I was reading and I didn't know what it was it was sure to be in the glossary and in perfect detail! I recommend this book to whoever wants to learn about computers and how to solve simple problems that would cost you $$$ to go to a place and have them fix it.