Life in the Stocks: Veracious conversations with musicians & creatives is a collection of rock 'n' roll stories taken from the iTunes chart-topping podcast, Life in the Stocks--hosted by UK-based DJ, presenter, and writer, Matt Stocks (Ex-Kerrang! Radio/Metal Hammer). Featuring B-Real (Cypress Hill), Clem Burke (Blondie), Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age), Doug Stanhope (Comedian), Kyle Gass (Tenacious D), Steven Van Zandt (Bruce Springsteen/The Sopranos), Monique Powell (Save Ferris), Robb Flynn (Machine Head), Tom Green (Comedian), Steve-O (Jackass), Andrew W.K. and many more...

If you've ever wondered what it takes to become a successful, self-directed investor or trader, look no further--all of the information you could ever need is here. In this step-by-step guide to building a portfolio, you'll learn the six best trading strategies for nonprofessionals and when to use each one. It lays out how to build a portfolio today and details the best trading strategies and tactics for the nonprofessional to use. Paired with the author's hard-won insights and customized rules, it's a must-read for anyone looking to get into investing! Hundreds, if not thousands, of stock market and options trading books have been written, each peppered with life stories of years on Wall Street or advice on various points that may help the reader achieve maximum profitability. But none of these books really show the diligent, self-directed investor what to do and how to do it, holistically. The reader can collect bits and pieces of information, but when it comes to making consistent money and doing it safely, this book is the one place where it's all brought together. This step-by-step guide to modern investing & risk management will show you: -How to cut through the noise of wall street advisors, financial news and thousands of investment websites to know what is important to review before trading or investing. -How to properly frame your portfolio before trading and efficiently perform fundamental and technical analysis on a very select set of your favorite stock & exchange traded fund ideas.-How to select the best trade setups and strategies for both stocks and their related options (and the best combinations of the two). -How to select and use the best six trading strategies (out of hundreds available) for non-professional investors.-How to place risk management and insurance positions to protect every trade and your overall portfolio from the outset. -How to adjust losing trades and turn many losers into winners.-How to properly use leverage safely-How to use these repeatable processes and systems to dramatically build wealth over time. Walk in my footsteps and use trading and investing to gain confidence and take back your life.

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By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.

Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln: A Life, an updated, condensed version of the 2,000-page two-volume set that The Atlantic hailed as one of the five best books of 2009, offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American leader. Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of American public life. Burlingame chronicles Lincoln's childhood and early development, romantic attachments and losses, his love of learning, legal training, and courtroom career as well as his political ambition, his term as congressman in the late 1840s, and his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood. Burlingame recounts, in fresh detail, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln marriage and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that revived his political career and won this Springfield lawyer the presidency in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's signature insight into Lincoln as a young man, a father, and a politician. Lincoln speaks to us not only as a champion of freedom, democracy, and national unity but also as a source of inspiration. Few have achieved his historical importance, but many can profit from his personal example, encouraged by the knowledge that despite a lifetime of troubles, he became a model of psychological maturity, moral clarity, and unimpeachable integrity. His presence and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story will do the same for generations to come.