How many haircuts is that tune-up worth? With money tight, bartering is growing in popularity. Over 70,000 businesses make cashless transactions throughout America. Here is the only complete, step-by-step guide to how this potentially lucrative process works, including: • The advantages of direct versus national barter networks • How to save and increase profitability • How to increase sales and revenue • How to start a trade exchange. • From a national expert and bareter entrepreneur • Detailed resource section exchanges and business associations

Economics, finance, business and industry.

Think outside the borders. Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Global Economics provides the key to understanding the various facts, figures, policies, and practices that offer insight into this dynamic subject.

• a roadmap for success • the strategies to use and pitfalls to avoid

When Wall Street stubs a toe, markets around the world say "ouch!" But exactly how the foreign exchange market works is a mystery that can give you a migraine.Come out from the covers! The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Demystfying the Foreign Exchange Market provides the grounding you need to grasp this confusing aspect of the global economy. In it you get: *The foreign exchange market explained. *How market forces and exchange rates are determined. *Supply, demand, and equilibrium. *Speculating on exchange.

The only how-to guide to today's most lucrative, fast-moving investment opportunity. Interactive CD included! Once considered the most abstract of all kinds of investing, foreign currency trading has exploded into the mainstream. In this concise, easy-to-follow guide, foreign exchange expert Gary Tilkin and financial journalist Lita Epstein shed light on the entire process, providing tips on successful trading strategies, explaining the pitfalls, showing how to avoid on-line fraud, and much more. Interactive instructional CD features Global Foreign Trading's proprietary software DEALBOOK, which allows readers to log on to its site and learn the process of currency trading, complete with virtual dollars with which to practice their new trading skills Also includes live links to up-to-the-minute information on every foreign currency and current resources professional traders use to get insight into this fast-paced market