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|author=Andy Bell
|title=The DIY Investor: How to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure future
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Investments are confusing. They're also rather frightening unless you have a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely to make your fortune, only to find that you've lost all your money. On the other hand you could put all your savings into a nice, safe building society or bank account only to find that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have the same buying power that it did when you opened the account. You could, of course, spend the money, but what about when you want to buy a house, replace the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but the other two are going to need a substantial investment pot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857196014</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=T K Williams-Nelson
|summary=It's a commonly-held belief that if you want to advance your business - bring in the extra money, get more customers and generally move up a step - then you're going to have to spend big money and bring in the experts. Martin, Goldstein and Cialdini tackle the problem from the other end: sometimes it's the smallest, least expensive and quick changes which can bring about the improvement that you need. In ''The small BIG'' they offer over fifty tips, hints, ideas which can make the difference. Sometimes they cost nothing, but bring in millions. Occasionally they require a small investment of your time, but it can be as little as five minutes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252742</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=William Poundstone
|title=How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone
|rating=4
|genre=Reference
|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked up?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>
}}