MOST PEOPLE live in a world of financial anxiety and stress. In most cases, they don't fully understand what decisions they need to make and where to get help making these decisions. - The FinancialVerse - presents in a straight forward, easy to read style - what the reader can expect at each stage of their financial lives and offers ideas and resources to assist decision making. - The FinancialVerse is made up of the knowledge, decisions, resources, risks, and tools that an individual encounter in life's financial journey. -The book has been written to help people reduce their levels of financial anxiety and stress. Authored by financial services leader Harry N. Stout, The FinancialVerse provides a much-needed roadmap of what to expect in our financial lives. - is starts in our Adulting Stage, to working in the Striving Stage to the final or returning Stage of Fulfilling life. Harry acts as your guide and spells out, in a very understandable way, what the risks, opportunities and key decisions the reader will need to make as they move through each stage. He explores what it is like to make decisions influenced by today's technology, economic trends, and work opportunities. Harry believes that most people, regardless of their family's economic background and level of education, do not fundamentally understand the key financial decisions and risks they will face in life. He believes improved financial education and literacy are needed as our lives become increasing more complex driven by technological innovation.

The FinancialVerse Guide to Savings - 600 Practical Cash Savings Ideas presents ideas on where households can look to save cash in our pandemic impacted world. The typical American household spends over $60,000 per year to support their lifestyle and needs. The book carefully delves into more than 30 areas of spending to look for savings. These areas range from household related costs to annual travel needs. The book provides a roadmap of where households can look for cash savings for today and into the future. The FinancialVerse Guide to Savings is based on the author's over 30 year career in personal financial services and his practical experience in saving money on life's needs. The author believes that if the reader implements many of the ideas presented they should be able to save at least 1% of their annual spending and find cash for other needs such as savings, debt reduction and retirement planning.

Most people have no understanding of today's life insurance products and the valuable benefits they have to offer. In most cases, people don't fully understand how to protect themselves against the financial risks they face using life insurance. They are not informed about how life insurance can help protect their financial futures and the process of purchasing life insurance. This book walks the reader through the entire process in an easy to understand manner. The book walks the reader through: Why Buy Life Insurance? What is Life Insurance? How Much Protection Should I Buy? Life Insurance Product Types The Core Benefits of Life Insurance Misunderstood Tax Benefits The Major Positives and Negatives Where to Buy The Buying Process The Financial Strength of Life Insurance Companies Your Next Steps In addition, the book provides easy to use resource checklists to help the reader. This book is part of the FinancialVerse book series. These books present in a straight forward, easy to read style - what the reader can expect at each stage of their financial lives and offers ideas and resources to assist decision making. The FinancialVerse as author Harry Stout writes is made up of the knowledge, decisions, resources, risks, and tools that an individual encounters in life's financial journey. Each book has been written to help people reduce their levels of financial anxiety and stress. Authored by financial services leader Harry N. Stout, the FinancialVerse series provides a much needed roadmap of what to expect in our financial lives. This starts in our Adulting Stage, to working in the Striving Stage to the final or Fulfilling Stage of later life. Harry acts as your guide and spells out, in a very understandable way, what the risks, opportunities and key decisions the reader will need to make as they move through each stage. He explores what it is like to make decisions influenced by today's technology, economic trends, and work opportunities. Harry believes that most people, regardless of their family's economic background and level of education, do not fundamentally understand the key financial decisions and risks they will face in life. He believes improved financial education and literacy are needed as our lives become increasing more complex driven by technological innovation. The FinancialVerse - Today's Life Insurance - A Protection Tool for Your Future is an excellent reference work to help you though the misunderstood world of life insurance.

An “artfully presented [and] engaging” look at the insidious effects of financialization on our lives and politics by the author of Treasure Islands (The Boston Globe). How didthe banking sector grow from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world? Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson takes us on a terrifying journey through the world economy, exposing tax havens, monopolists, megabanks, private equity firms, Eurobond traders, lobbyists, and a menagerie of scoundrels quietly financializing our entire society, hurting both business and individuals. Shaxson shows how we got here, telling the story of how finance re-engineered the global economic order in the last half-century, with the aim not of creating wealth but extracting it from the underlying economy. Under the twin gospels of “national competitiveness” and “shareholder value,” megabanks and financialized corporations have provoked a race to the bottom between states to provide the most subsidized environment for big business, encouraged a brain drain into finance, fostered instability and inequality, and turned a blind eye to the spoils of organized crime. From Ireland to Iowa, he shows the insidious effects of financialization on our politics and on communities who were promised paradise but got poverty wages instead. We need a strong financial system—but when it grows too big it becomes a monster. The Finance Curse is the explosive story of how finance got a stranglehold on society, and reveals how we might release ourselves from its grasp. Revised with new chapters “[Discusses] corrupt financiers in London and New York City, geographically obscure tax havens, the bizarre realm of wealth managers in South Dakota, a ravaged newspaper in New Jersey, and a shattered farm economy in Iowa . . . A vivid demonstration of how corruption and greed have become the main organizing principles in the finance industry.” —Kirkus Reviews

What would famous poets such as Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lewis Carroll, & William Shakespeare say about economic topics such as options trading, Enron, a sinking U.S. dollar, & CEO compensation packages? Silverstein rewrote some of the greatest verse of great poets past in a way that gives these dead masters the posthumous opportunity to comment on contemporary financial market shenanigans. The upshot is the present collection. Chapters: market machinations, labor & mgmt., market fear & loathing, investing tips in verse, tax angst, the Fed. Reserve & its instruments, the players & their games, financial market haiku, currencies, & Shakespeare on Wall Street. Illustrated.

A leader’s provocative look at 20th century financial markets Henry Kaufman, former vice Chairman of Salomon Brothers, was a key Wall Street figure in the 70s and 80s. His projections about interest rates, bond performance, unemployment, and government debt impacted monetary policy in more than one presidential administration, and prompted swings in the markets. You’ll find On Money and Markets—Dr. Kaufman’s look back at the financial and economic arenas he helped shape for half a century—both fascinating and valuable. His memoir gives you insight into such questions as why the Federal Reserve has gained so much power, and what it means for investors....and what patterns we can see in the credit crunches and other financial crises that have rocked Wall Street and world markets. The dozen or so questions he explores are of serious concern to today’s investors. And few other experts have Dr. Kaufman’s perspective and experience to answer them.