Creative Money

Retirement planning is changing—fast. The old playbook no longer works in today’s evolving financial landscape. If you want a secure, flexible, and future-proof retirement, you need more than just 401(k)s and index funds. The smartest investors are blending traditional financial tools with modern strategies—including breakthrough technology and alternative assets—to accelerate their retirement goals. This guide reveals essential strategies to build and protect long-term wealth—without relying on outdated methods that may not stand the test of time.

How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies.

IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.

This updated 2025 2-in-1 audiobook bundle is your shortcut to real results—designed to cut years off your learning curve and help you start earning passive income in weeks, not decades.

The incredible true story of how a creative girl built a sustainable living doing all of the creative things she loves! And how you can too! Create your own journey as a skilled artisan, craftsperson selling wholesale and/or retail to owning your own boutique or retail store. Angela Catirina takes you on her own journey from starting as a child doing a craft show, to launching a successful wholesale artisan jewelry studio with $5 worth of beads and string from the clearance section of the craft store and television in the backseat of her car to pawn in case of emergencies. She made the ...

Unlock the secrets to financial freedom tailored just for creative minds with "Money Mastery for Designers." This comprehensive guide transforms the complex world of finance into an inspiring journey for designers seeking to thrive both creatively and financially. Dive into the essentials with a fresh perspective on financial management, crafted to resonate with your artistic soul. Learn to overcome common money fears and embrace budgeting basics that set you up for success. Discover how to forecast financial needs, adjust your budgets with ease, and navigate the often unpredictable nature ...

NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they're a new technology for creating digital assets and providing irrefutable proof of ownership. NFTs open up markets that have never before existed, and are already revolutionizing commerce and brand-building at everything from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kominers and Kaczynski have created a framework that explains what NFTs are, why they’re valuable, and how businesses can leverage them to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around their products and brands.

Are you interested in Options Trading, but you don’t know how and where to start? Do you want to learn Useful Trading Strategies to become a Real Stock Trader? If yes, this is the right book for you! An option is an agreement that enables you to purchase and sell specific stock trading amounts at a special price in a particular trading time before the date of expiration avails. Options can be valuable to support your risk since they give you the right, not the commitment, to purchase/sell a security at a foreordained cost. The higher the market price, the more valuable the option ...

A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established. For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refused to consider any central or organizing agency in its financial system.

In a world constantly in need of financial wisdom and breakthroughs, there is one source that provides the greatest answer about how we engage and create wealth: the Bible. God's Word is packed with impact and strategies for creating wealth. The problem is that in the church, for decades, we've been taught that money is evil, so it's difficult to engage as a Christian. And many wealthy Christians feel guilty about it. We need to know what God's Word says about creating, enjoying, and giving away wealth. Being prosperous gets a bad reputation in the world, but for us to truly love and take ...

A robust investment strategy forms the basis of any wealth building journey—if your money isn't working hard on your behalf, it's slowly being devalued by inflation. It has never been easier—or more important—for everyday investors to get started investing in the stock market. Bestselling author, advisor, and financial industry veteran Ted D. Snow CFP®, MBA brings over 30 years of experience to this Investing QuickStart Guide.

Cryptocurrency is all the rage, no matter which social platform you jump to, which news channel you switch to, or which colleague you are talking to on a slow, dull Monday – you are bound to come across it every single day.

Finding Your Niche: A Practical Guide to Creating, Growing, and Scaling Your Business Step-By-Step Strategies For Real Success Build a Business That Feels Like You Most business guides tell you to follow trends. This book shows you how to create a niche that's uniquely yours. Build a business that reflects your passion and skills, and grows because it's authentic. Inside You'll Discover: How to create a niche that aligns with your strengths. Smart strategies for selling online and offline. How to scale while staying true to your vision. Pricing, marketing, and customer engagement tips. ...

It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact the pace at which developing countries grow is largely determined by the pace at which they close that gap. Therefore, how countries learn and become more productive is key to understanding how they grow and develop, especially over the long term.

An indispensable approach to personal finance, perfect for any person seeking relief from money struggles and all individuals and families who want to create a robust and healthy money legacy for their lives.

Trading Commodity Options…with Creativity takes listeners on an unfamiliar voyage destined to simplify the options on futures markets and arm market participants with the knowledge to employ smarter commodity market strategies. Many books have been written on options trading, but most focus on the academic side of options suggesting there are black and white answers and reliable mathematical formulas to determine profit and loss.

If you're like me, you watched The Secret, attended seminars, and studied every other New Age and new thought author and teacher, but with little success. Eventually, I combined the different advice I'd received and started to receive what I've nick-named Magic Money. But don't get me wrong - this isn't the woo-woo, Law of Attraction stuff you've heard before. Magic Money is practical prosperity that, when you practice it, works like a charm. And it usually starts within 24 hours!

Learn how to apply the laws governing the physical world to your inner world. You will discover that you already know the laws but are not really applying them in your life. This book will help to change that. I'm sure you’ve heard about quantum leaps before and if not, we will look on them from a new perspective. You will discover that laws of magnetism in physics are the same that we encounter in our everyday life. Before you can get what you want, you have to become a powerful magnet.

What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don't? (They do.) What if they know that in order to achieve success, they will sometimes have to do things that others may initially perceive as stupid? The fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the world don't run from stupid, they lean into it (in a smart way). In The Power of Starting Something Stupid, Richie Norton redefines stupid as we know it, demonstrating that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid.

Did you know that movies and books like The Secret haven’t revealed the REAL secret behind getting what you want in life? It takes much more than simply visualizing, creating vision boards, or praying to get what you want in life. Yes, there IS a secret...and it’s about to be revealed to you inside this book! What’s incredible is that this secret is fairly simple and easy to implement. With just 15 minutes a day of your time, you can heal yourself, access amazing ideas that you would have never thought of before, and essentially COMMAND that the universe deliver to you exactly what ...