Review of Financial Instruments and Institutions: Accounting and Disclosure Rules (Hardcover)

You are wrong if you think that this is a pure accounting or finance book. I am taking Profoessor Ryan's class of "Finanial Instruments and Financial Institutions" in NYU right now. The stength of Professor Ryan in the book is his in-depth understanding and effective description of economics, finance and accounting issues. So many case studies covered in the book blend with macroeconomic events, financial implication and accounting disclosures. Therefore, you need some background~~ knowledge of accounting and finance to fully take advantage of his insights in the book. This book discusses the yield curve, interest risk, credit and market risks, and fair value accounting for financial instruments. It analyzes the finacial and accounting issues for thrifts, mortgage bank, securitizations, commercial banks, derivatives and hedging, lessors and lease accountings. After reading through the book, you will have clear pictures about each finnancial instruments and institutions.~~ You won't be afraid of these topics any more. This book can be used as an advanced textbook for finance or accouting majors in business school, or a reference book if you are interested in financial and accounting issues of the above topics.~



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Review of Business Marketing Management: B2B (Hardcover)

The service behind this product was more than excellent. I received the book within a couple of days and was extremely pleased that it arrived before school started just as promised.



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Review of Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth, Revised and Updated (Hardcover)

A read of Allen's book is interesting because it presents a differentviewpoint on real estate.Being a novice in real estate, it provided mewith information on many aggressive strategies.However, also being a CPA,I believe that they are excessively risky and are not necessarilyfinancially sound.

Many techniques that are mentioned such as targetingassumable mortgages are out of date and useless.And many of the deals hecovers as examples seem like a fast way to build up debt and incur monthlynegative cash flow losses.

A google search on Robert G. Allen revealsthat he is no longer pushing real estate but a vitamin multilevel marketingcompany.Also, a look at John T Reed's website reveals that Allen hasfiled for bankruptcy in the time period between when this book was writtenand today...1996, I believe.

There are probably better and more relevantreal estate books out there.Since I'm still searching for my personalreal estate methodology, I can't recommend anything now, but I would notrecommend this book to others -- especially beginners.



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Review of Principles of Econometrics (Hardcover)

This book is a shortened version of "Learning and Practising Econometrics (1993)", which itself is a shortened version of "The Theory and Practice of Econometrics (1982)".

Hill's "Undergraduate Econometrics" instills understanding by slowly going through derivations and principles, while at the same time motivating econometric analysis by referring to economic situations where it can be used. Much better than Gujarati (which tends to be a "cookery book" rather than giving an integrated treatment).

The book both motivates the student and takes them through the steps and methods they will need to adopt in further econometric studies, and always provides a good reference (often to one of the parent books mentioned above) when it omits proofs and other details.

The only weakness of the book reveals what is (to my mind) an unhealthy preoccupation with estimation issues, as opposed to those of data quality. As people like Granger have consistently pointed out, the real issues in 21st century econometrics have to do with what sort of data we have, and what methods are most appropriate in different situations. Despite this, Hill et al almost exclusively dwell on the identically and independently distributed (iid) specification. However, I should point out in the book's defence that this preoccupation is shared by most other introductory (and graduate) textbooks on econometrics.

The book's good points far outweigh these weaknesses. Finally, the second edition has some updates, and discusses such developments as time series econometrics."Undergraduate Econometrics" should definitely be purchased by anyone wishing to learn about modern empirical methods.



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Review of The 16% Solution: How to Get High Interest Rates in a Low-Interest World with Tax Lien Certificates, Revised Edition (Hardcover)

The 16% Solution is an excellent book to help you get started investing in a very powerful and safe investment.

True it was written back in the 90's, but things really haven't changed all that much. And yes it is true that institutions are in on tax liens, but the real truth is that these were and are and always have been the primary players. I suspect the negative reviews are from banks and other institutions who do not want you to know about these outstanding investments.

The rate of return is not cut in stone. While you are not guaranteed 16%, in some states and in many cases you can earn 50%...even today.

I invest in tax liens and especially over the last three years, have far outperformed the stock market and other forms of investment. I have also picked up houses for pennies on the dollar via tax liens. Remember, a tax lien is superior to all other liens, even IRS liens.

As I said, I invest in tax liens and the USA is a huge market place. I don't feel that letting you know what a great investment tax liens are is going to hurt my business. And no, I do not have any courses or books to sell. Nor am I in any way associated with this author or any other author or seminar promoter. I just believe in these investments based on my own experience and hate to see potential investors scared away from a very powerful and lucrative investment because of one malcontent who is only trying to push a dead website which does have books and seminars to sell.

I guess I am old fashioned that way.

The 16% Solution is an outstanding book and I highly recommend it.



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