Tuesday, March 17, 2009

"Buy Gold Now" a book that push Gold to Record Highs

Buy Gold Now: How a Real Estate Bust, our Bulging National Debt, and the Languishing Dollar Will Push Gold to Record Highs.

A practical guide to using gold to excel in today's overextended financial world
With American consumer debt doubling in seven years and the federal debt continuing to surge, a potential dollar crash is now talked about openly in financial circles. Although risks in financial markets have been escalating--creating a need for protection in gold--no major investment house recommends it, and gold remains the most under-owned major financial asset! Written by investment expert Shayne McGuire, Buy Gold Now discusses why the opportunity to profit in gold--and protect oneself from risk--has never been better. This reliable resource covers essential issues, including the best ways to invest in bullion, specific recommendations regarding rare coins, and stock market investments via gold and silver mining stocks and ETFs. With anecdotes from some of the world's leading financial professionals, Buy Gold Now explains why gold isn't just a defensive purchase anymore, but an investment that can outperform the markets for many years to come.


Masterfully researched, and written in a straightforward style, Buy Gold Now makes a case for buying gold as protection against the rising risks of an unprecedented global currency crisis and as a profitable investment vehicle. Divided into five comprehensive parts, this reliable resource examines our country’s current financial situation from a historical perspective and addresses some of the alarming issues that many economists are currently pointing to with concern.

Buy Gold Now
With foreign-financed U.S. debt levels continuing to soar, an intensifying real estate bust, and other signs of economic exhaustion following one of the longest booms in history, the probability of a dollar crash is now openly talked about in financial circles. Yet gold—the ultimate escape from financial risk throughout human history—remains one of the least-owned financial assets, representing less than 2% of the typical investment portfolio.


Pushing aside Wall Street's perennial aversion to gold, in Buy Gold Now, investment expert Shayne McGuire skillfully reveals why the opportunity to profit from this precious metal, as well as protect yourself from risk, has rarely been better. Long forgotten, the 2,300% gold surge in the 1970s—when debt was one-tenth the level present in our economy today—is a return not even the 1990s NASDAQ could beat.
Masterfully researched and written in a straightforward style, Buy Gold Now makes a case for buying gold as protection against the rising risks of an unprecedented global currency crisis and as a profitable investment vehicle. It examines the country's current financial situation from a historical perspective, addressing some of the alarming issues that many economists today are pointing to with concern.

Divided into five comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with detailed discussions of:
Why U.S. financial risk has never been higher
How our homes are the epicenter of U.S. economic risk
Why the longest economic boom ever is probably coming to an end
Keeping these and other issues in mind, the final two parts of the book—The Case for Owning Gold and How to Buy Gold—outline the advantages and disadvantages of this essential asset in securing future wealth and protecting your portfolio during precariouseconomic times.

Here, you'll receive specific recommendations regarding stock market investments via mining stocks and exchange-traded funds, and discover the best ways to invest in physical gold through bullion, "digital gold currency," and rare coins.
Filled with in-depth insights from some of the world's leading financial professionals, The book Buy Gold Now explains why gold isn't just a defensive purchase anymore, but an investment that can outperform the markets for many years to come.


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Monday, March 16, 2009

Reading Books will Helps for Self improvment

There are plenty of problems that revolve around us and trouble us during our life cycle. The small problems like getting good results during our educational years, getting success in our profession life or even maintaining a good relation with our friends, relatives and partners affect us adversely.

People have constantly been gazing through the various sources to get rid of such problems. There are some Self-help books are meant to resolve such issues in our daily life and give us a happy and satisfied life. These Self-help books are specially designed by the professionals to make the life easier and happier. There are number of issues that a self-book may cover to gain success. How Does Self-help Help?Any self-help book will try to elaborate the ways of cutting down the problems and solving them.

The major task of self-help book is to provide you with the ways to get the things that you want in your life. They are a good source of information to create good control over life. It can also be used to eliminate doubts, uncertainty, fear and worry that stop you to get the success in life.Some self-help books are meant for the health conscious people. These books generally provide you the means of getting rid of addictions like smoking and alcoholism. These books would help you in maintaining an addiction-free life and provide you with perfect health and perfect body conditions.

They can also include some tips to increase your energy levels that would eventually end up in providing maximum productivity.Some self-books are also designed to become wealthy by following certain tips. These books actually allow you to choose a business or profession that suits you the most. They also include the secrets behind the growth and achievement that is required to max life. Some self-help book are specially created to help maintain positive relationships. These books help the people who are not good enough to carry out things that are needed for maintaining healthy relationships.

These books throw some essential light to get the attractions from the people and win their hearts. The main motive behind such books is to make then aware of the power of love in any kind of relations. Besides this, self-help book also gives valuable tips for exploring inner talents and virtues that may help in accomplishing difficult tasks in your life. Some self-books are also assigned to reveal the facts of divine power. Eventually, self-help books cover every essential aspect of our life.

Self-help book can offer you a life that is free from fear, anxiety, loneliness, stress, depression and insecurity etc.Essentially, self-help books can be termed as Bible that aims to improve self-awareness and performance. There are sources like bookstores and internet that offer some exciting and worthy self-help books.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Kite Runner a novel from the Afghanistan back ground.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who betrayed his best friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant but lives in regret. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.


Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara and the son of Amir's father's servant, Ali, spend their days in a peaceful Kabul, kite fighting, roaming the streets and being boys. Amir’s father (who is generally referred to as Baba, "daddy", throughout the book) loves both the boys, but seems critical of Amir for not being manly enough. Amir also fears his father blames him for his mother’s death during childbirth. However, he has a kind father figure in the form of Rahim Khan, Baba’s friend, who understands Amir better, and is supportive of his interest in writing stories.

Assef, a notoriously mean and violent older boy with sadistic tendencies, blames Amir for socializing with a Hazara, which is, according to Assef, an inferior race that should only live in Hazarajat. He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot out Assef's left eye with his slingshot. Assef and his henchmen back off, but Assef says he will take revenge.

Hassan is a successful "kite runner" for Amir, knowing where the kite will land without even watching it. One triumphant day, Amir wins the local tournament, and finally Baba's praise. Hassan goes to run the last cut kite, a great trophy, for Amir saying "For you, a thousand times over." Unfortunately, Hassan runs into Assef and his two henchmen. Hassan refuses to give up Amir's kite, so Assef exacts his revenge, assaulting and raping him. Wondering why Hassan is taking so long, Amir searches for Hassan and hides when he hears Assef's voice. He witnesses the rape but is too scared to help him. Afterwards, for some time Hassan and Amir keep a distance from each other. Amir reacts indifferently because he feels ashamed, and is frustrated by Hassan's saint-like behavior. Already jealous of Baba's love for Hassan, he worries if Baba knew how bravely Hassan defended Amir's kite, and how cowardly Amir acted, that Baba's love for Hassan would grow even more.

To force Hassan to leave, Amir frames him as a thief, and Hassan falsely confesses. Baba forgives him, despite the fact that, as he explained earlier, he believes that "there is no act more wretched than stealing." Hassan and his father Ali, to Baba's extreme sorrow, leave anyway. Hassan's departure frees Amir of the daily reminder of his cowardice and betrayal, but he still lives in their shadow and his guilt.

Five years later, the Russians invade Afghanistan; Amir and Baba escape to Peshawar, Pakistan and then to Fremont, California, where Amir and Baba, who lived in luxury in an expansive mansion in Afghanistan, settle in a run-down apartment and Baba begins work at a gas station. Amir eventually takes classes at a local community college to develop his writing skills. Every Sunday, Baba and Amir make extra money selling used goods at a flea market in San Jose. There, Amir meets fellow refugee Soraya Taheri and her family; Soraya's father, who was a high-ranking officer in Afghanistan, has contempt of Amir's literary aspiration. Baba is diagnosed with terminal oat cell carcinoma but is still capable of granting Amir one last favor: he asks Soraya's father's permission for Amir to marry her. He agrees and the two marry. Shortly thereafter Baba dies. Amir and Soraya learn that they cannot have children.

Amir embarks on a successful career as a novelist. Fifteen years after his wedding, Amir receives a call from Rahim Khan, who is dying from an illness. Rahim Khan asks Amir to come to Pakistan. He enigmatically tells Amir "there is a way to be good again." Amir goes.
From Rahim Khan, Amir learns the fates of Ali and Hassan. Ali was killed by a land mine. Hassan had a wife and a son, named Sohrab, and had returned to Baba’s house as a caretaker at Rahim Khan’s request. One day the Taliban ordered him to give it up and leave, but he refused, and was murdered, along with his wife. Rahim Khan reveals that Ali was not really Hassan's father. Hassan was actually the son of Baba, therefore Amir's half-brother. Finally, Rahim Khan tells Amir that the true reason he has called Amir to Pakistan is to go to Kabul to rescue Hassan's son, Sohrab, from an orphanage.


Amir returns to Taliban-controlled Kabul with a guide, Farid, and searches for Sohrab at the orphanage. In order to enter Taliban territory, Amir, who is normally clean shaven, dons a fake beard and moustache, because otherwise the Taliban would exact Sharia punishment against him. However, he does not find Sohrab where he was supposed to be: the director of the orphanage tells them that a Taliban official comes often, brings cash and usually takes a girl back with him. Once in a while however, he takes a boy, recently Sohrab. The director tells Amir to go to a soccer match and the man wearing the John Lennon glasses is the man who took Sohrab. Farid manages to secure an appointment with the speaker at his home, by saying that he and Amir have "personal business" with him.

At the house, Amir has his meeting with the man in sunglasses who says the man who does the speeches is not available, due to the fact that he is participating in wrongful acts of adultery. The man in sunglasses is eventually revealed to be his childhood nemesis, Assef. Assef is aware of Amir's identity from the very beginning, but Amir doesn't realize who he's sitting across from until Assef starts asking about Ali, Baba and Hassan. Sohrab is being kept at the home where he is made to dance dressed in women's clothes, and it seems Assef might have been sexually assaulting him. (Sohrab later says, "I'm so dirty and full of sin. The bad man and the other two did things to me.") Assef agrees to relinquish him, but only for a price - cruelly beating Amir. However, Amir is saved when Sohrab uses his slingshot to shoot out Assef's left eye, fulfilling the threat his father had made many years before.

Amir tells Sohrab of his plans to take him back to America and possibly adopt him, and promises that he will never be sent to an orphanage again. After almost having to break that promise (after decades of war, paperwork documenting Sohrab's orphan status, as demanded by the US authorities, is impossible to get) and Sohrab attempting suicide, Amir manages to take him back to the United States and introduces him to his wife. However, Sohrab is emotionally damaged and refuses to speak or even glance at Soraya. This continues until his frozen emotions are thawed when Amir reminisces about his father, Hassan, while kite flying. Amir shows off some of Hassan’s tricks, and Sohrab begins to interact with Amir again. In the end Sohrab only shows a lopsided smile, but Amir takes to it with all his heart as he runs the kite for Sohrab, saying, "For you, a thousand times over."

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Rich Dad, Poor Dad a book on financial freedom.

Rich Dad Poor Dad a book on financial freedom by Robert Kiyosaki. I read this book and realised that such a great book came on very simple language and common jargaons. In my openion every one must read this book.

The book is the story of a person who is the narrator and author Mr Robert T Kiyosaki, who has two fathers: the first was his biological father – the poor dad - and the other was the father of his childhood best friend, Mike – the rich dad. Both fathers taught the author how to achieve success but with very disparate approaches. It became evident to the author which father's approach made more financial sense. Throughout the book, the author compares both fathers – their principles, ideas, financial practices, and degree of dynamism and how his real father, the poor and struggling but highly educated man, paled against his rich dad in terms of asset building and business acumen.
The author compares his poor dad to those people who are perpetually scampering in the Rat Race, helplessly trapped in a vicious cycle of needing more but never able to satisfy their dreams for wealth because of one glaring lack: financial literacy. They spend so much time in school learning about the problems of the world, but have not acquired any valuable lessons about money, simply because it is never taught in school. His
rich dad, by contrast, represents the independently wealthy core of society who deliberately takes advantage of the power of corporations and their personal knowledge of tax and accounting (or that of their financial advisers) which they manipulate to their advantage.
The
books theme reduces to two fundamental concepts: a can-do attitude and fearless entrepreneurship. The author highlights these two concepts by providing multiple examples for each and focusing on the need for financial literacy, how the power of corporations contribute to making the wealthy even wealthier, minding your own business, overcoming obstacles by not fostering laziness, fear, cynicism and other negative attitudes, and recognizing the characteristics of humans and how their preconceived notions and upbringing hamper their financial freedom goals.
The author presents six major lessons which he discusses throughout the
book:
The rich don’t work for money
The importance of financial literacy
Minding Your own business
Taxes and corporations
The rich invent money
The need to work to learn and not to
work for money