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How to save, invest, and amass real wealth on even the tightest budget What can a neighborhood butcher from Portland, Oregon tell regular working stiffs about achieving their dreams of financial independence? Everything! Inside these pages, Paul Petillo, the renowned creator of bluecollardollar.com gives you all of the tools, tips, and advice you need to understand your financial situation and make it much, much better--whatever your current income. Sure, you're thinking, but can I become as wealthy as that lofty top1% of taxpayers who get all the breaks? Quite possibly. Okay, but what are the risks? Petillo's straight, simple advice is tailor-made for people who don't have a lot of money to spare--or to lose. You'll learn safe, proven wealth-building strategies that cover all the major components of a cautious, balanced financial plan.Paul Petillo shows you how to: * Invest in mutual funds, bonds, real estate, and annuities* Avoid financial disasters* Tracking your debt and create a plan for staying out of it* Make a roadmap for buying a home, saving for college, and retiring rich* Find safe, rewarding investments right in your own backyard* Play the market without buying stocks So don't just sit around waiting for your ship to come in. Read Building Wealth in a Paycheck to Paycheck World and launch it yourself!

In the bestselling tradition of The Wealthy Barber, a nuts-and-bolts financial planning guide for the rest of us

Five years ago, a butcher from Portland, Oregon, named Paul Petillo was frustrated by the lack of financial planning insights available to working stiffs like himself. To fill this gap, he created The BlueCollar Dollar.com, a website offering straight, simple money advice for people who don''t have a lot of it to spare, or to lose--in other words, most of us. The site quickly grew in popularity and now attracts more than a million visitors a year.

Petillo''s first book, Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World is packed with safe, proven wealth-building strategies. It covers all the major components of a balanced financial plan, including:

Straight talk on mutual funds, bonds, real estate, and annuitiesTechniques for avoiding financial disastersTools to help readers track their debt and create a plan for staying out of itRoad maps to buying a home and saving for college and retirement

Create a retirement plan that works for you

Social security, IRAs, and 401(k)s are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to planning for retirement. And as people are living longer, it's more vital than ever to come up with a long-term investment plan. Retirement Planning for the Utterly Confused shows you how to choose the strategies and vehicles for saving and investing that suit your needs, and makes difficult process easy to comprehend.

You'll also find:

Insight into complicated retirement issuesStrategies for managing investment risk at every stage of your lifeInformation for three distinct types of retirement planner: The Early Bird, the Chaser, and the Relaxer

If you have a 401(k), IRA, or just about any other type of investment, chances are you hold shares in at least one mutual fund. But do you know exactly what a mutual fund is? Do you know how it works? And do you know how our recent economic situation will affect your mutual-fund investments?

In Mutual Funds for the Utterly Confused, Paul Petillo answers all of you investment questions. Using plain, jargon-free language and colorful analogies, he describes all the different types of mutual funds available, including money market funds, bond funds, stock funds, ETFs, and index funds. Petillo walks you through the subject step-by-step to help you gain a firm grasp of your current investments--and make informed decisions on future investments.

This easy-to-understand guide includes:

Critical information about management styles and risk toleranceDescriptions of fund management structurePerspectives from fund managers, for a rare behind-the-scenes look at the industryAdvice on measuring performance, enhanced by formulas and tables

Make sense of every kind of investment with this easy, accessible guide!

In the popular, easy-to-use format of the Utterly Confused series, this authoritative, easy-to understand guide to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, 401(k)s, and more is perfect for the novice investor. Paul Petillo provides practical, proven advice on finding the right places to invest, weighing risk versus return, anticipating pitfalls in the market, and maintaining a diversified portfolio.

Thorough and comprehensive coverage of all relevant investment strategies, tools, and tips for today''s investorDefinitions, descriptions, and step-by-step instruction will teach even the most uninitiated how to build a solid, profitable portfolioExplains the dynamics of the market, the discipline needed to invest, and the tools needed to be successful in the long termIncludes explanations of important tricks of the trade, including asset allocation, dollar cost averaging, and efficient market hypothesis

ReBuilding Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck is the 2015, updated version of Paul Petillo's successful guide to understanding your money, achieving financial success and doing it with the tools you have. The book takes a step-by-step approach to the complicated world of finance. In ten, easy-to-read and easy-to-put into practice, this book explains a common sense approach to all things money. Petillo believes that there is really no color in the collar; white or blue, if you depend on your paycheck, this is a must read. It is perfect for people who are just starting out and equally important for people who have made some mistakes along the way.The book covers debt, investing, insurance and estate planning.

Santo Aretino, like so many kids, was a blank slate. But then one day, he saw something he should not have seen, doing something he should not have been doing. As a result of that experience, the murder of a stranger in the parking lot of a local bowling alley, his life compass was reset and the story follows the years after that event. That journey takes us into a dark world where things that should make sense, or do so for the rest of the world around, are shrouded in ambiguities. He learns to allow his reaction to everything he encounters to be guided by his intuition. He finds himself becoming a savior for those that are bullied, becoming the scourge of these self-appointed princes and in turn, becomes the target of others who don't share his crusade. He searches for love, delves into the world of drugs, and questions everything around him in the process, from his lineage to his beliefs. He simply grows up too fast and too soon. His world becomes populated by adults, who mistake his maturity, both physically and mentally, welcoming him into places most normal kids would never venture. This is a book about his selective memories, a cognitive disconnect with the world he was born into, poor choices that lead to interesting enlightenments, all while he suffers from the painful inability to see himself as the world does. He becomes a self-educated boy who turns to books to help him understand the world around him. While it focuses on the life of a young man in his high school years, it is a novel for adults. Santo's experiences are anything but normal, at least compared to the other kids he knows growing up in the early seventies. This is the first of three books on the quest to be normal. Can he come to grips with his past and his present and find a future worth pursuing?