Download or read book Fortune Tellers written by Walter Friedman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial markets The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Walter Friedman paints vivid portraits of entrepreneurs who shared a belief that the rational world of numbers and reason could tame--or at least foresee--the irrational gyrations of the market. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters helped to make the prediction of economic trends a central economic activity, and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is science and what is merely guesswork in forecasting? What motivates people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Masterful and compelling, Fortune Tellers highlights the risk and uncertainty that are inherent to capitalism itself.

Download or read book Plight of the Fortune Tellers written by Riccardo Rebonato and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's top financial-risk professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and it puts us all at risk. This is the case that Riccardo Rebonato makes in Plight of the Fortune Tellers--and coming from someone who is both an experienced market professional and an academic, this heresy is worth listening to. Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning, and he shows us how to do it using probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory. This is the only way to effectively manage financial risk in a manner congruent with how human beings actually react to chance. Rebonato challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about probability in financial-risk management. Risk managers have become obsessed with measuring risk and believe that these quantitative results by themselves can guide sound financial choices--but they can't. In this book, Rebonato offers a radical yet surprisingly commonsense solution, one that seeks to remind us that managing risk comes down to real people making decisions under uncertainty. Plight of the Fortune Tellers is not only a book for the decision makers of Wall Street, it's a must-read for anyone concerned about how today's financial markets are run. The stakes have never been higher--can you risk it?

Download or read book The Fortune Seller written by Patrice Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse, a two hit performer, suddenly drops from the international spotlight. By the time she realizes that she is out of fashion, Jesse finds herself in serious debt. She is forced to take work as a telephone psychic. Jesse, known as Isis among the clientele, will have to be inventive. She landed this job because the company liked her voice. But now, like many fortune sellers, she must rely on her wits to keep it. A survivor and an opportunist, Jesse welcomes the anonymity and late-night shifts. This is her chance to rebuild her career - to plan her comeback. This will be her ticket back to showbiz. The future looks bright until readings for an enigmatic new customer land Jesse in deadly circumstances. A supernatural twist of fate draws Jesse into an obsessional love from beyond the grave. No clairvoyant could have predicted the danger that will follow. Patrice Chaplin, author of 36 books and plays, including The Siesta and City of Secrets, introduces this unique paranormal thriller. Based on a true story, The Fortune Seller takes us deep inside the modern-day psychic industry - a booming business fueled by thousands desperately seeking love, wealth, fame, revenge and glimpses into the future. The Fortune Seller sheds light on the professional psychic performance; the good news peddlers, and also, the genuinely gifted - those rare talents who can attune to strangers to receive messages, remarkable yet undeniably accurate. Follow Jesse into this night world - where truth is hard to find. And where seekers and channels follow heavenly guides across celestial trails, dimensions and time.

Download or read book The Fortune Sellers written by William A. Sherden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ein Klassiker jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe. Das Erstellen von Zukunftsprognosen ist ein millionenschweres Geschaft. Doch haufig entstehen Zweifel an der Zuverlassigkeit der Vorhersagen. Sherden entlarvt falsche Prophezeiungen und trennt die Tatsachen von Trugschlussen, um den Leser zu zeigen, wie man Prognosen am besten nutzt und wie man sich die "Rosinen" herauspickt. Eine faszinierende Lekture, mit einer Unmenge erkennbarer, offensichtlicher Tatsachen und handfester Beispiele. (12/99)

Download or read book The Fortune Teller s Kiss written by Brenda Serotte and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memoir of a Sephardic Jewish girl living among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx. She comes down with polio just before her eighth birthday. She begins a fight against immobility set within a cultural realm where Catholic and Jew and Turkish Moslem once met. Where a beautiful aunt could be abducted into a Turkish harem and another aunt could still keep the 400-year-old iron key to the family house in the Cordoba of the Spanish Inquisition.

Download or read book The Fortune Sellers written by Gary Wilburn and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fortune Sellers written by William A. Sherden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious, intelligent, and very readable guide to understanding our present and our future."-Harry Beckwith, author of Selling the Invisible No one can foretell the future. Or can they? There are many who purport to-and they are making a fortune. From meteorologists to investment advisers, prognosticating professionals are part of a multibillion-dollar industry. No longer merely fortunetellers, they are fortune sellers, offering us a commodity we're more than eager to buy: the future. In this piercing and provocative expose, business consultant and forecasting expert William Sherden casts an unblinking eye on the booming business of predicting the future, separating fact from fallacy to show us not only how best to use the forecasts we're given, but how to "select the nuggets of valuable future advice from amongst the $200 billion worth of mostly erroneous future predictions put forth each year.

Download or read book Make a Fortune Selling to Women written by Connie Podesta and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Want to Close The Deal? Want to Make The Sale? Want to Retain More Customers? Are you selling to the dominant economic force in the country?

There are 190 million of them in the U.S. alone. They have $4.4 trillion in collective buying power. They purchase 85% of all products and services, and they influence most of the rest of the purchases. They are responsible for 85% of the checks written. Forty-seven percent of them are stockholders. Who are they? Women.

In Make a Fortune Selling to Women, Connie Podesta combines psychology and sales tactics to create a how-to guide for how to sell to women and how to market to women.

With a lively voice and no-nonsense tone that both men and women will appreciate, Podesta offers specific tips for overcoming the big five Deal Breakers:

1. She doesn't want to play the game
2. She doesn't think the salesperson views her as a legitimate decision maker
3. She doesn't like the salesperson
4. She doesn't trust the salesperson
5. She doesn't think the salesperson is the right person for the job

Riddled with revealing anecdotes, Make a Fortune Selling to Women describes the male and female approach to the buying experience--without being condescending to either gender. And both salesmen and saleswomen will rely on this book to help them secure more sales with women. Discover exactly the right approach when selling to women and use it to close the deal.

Download or read book Fortune Telling Book of Names written by A.M. McCloud and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's in a name? It doesn't take a crystal ball to find out—this delightful book unlocks the secrets held within hundreds of names. Each entry features a personalized fortune, uncovering whether a name foretells health, wealth, or happiness. And for further divination, there are also fun extras such as name origin, spelling variations, popular names throughout history, and a primer on the art of numerology. Featuring charming vintage illustrations, this luxe volume is sure to cast a spell over anyone who sees it and makes a great gift for expecting parents!

Download or read book The Fortune Teller s Daughter written by Susan Wilson and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of moving from place to place with her fortune-teller mother, Sabine Heartwood finally has a home in Moose River Junction, a quiet New England town. But her peaceful life has suddenly turned itself upside-down. Sabine has fallen in love with Dan Smith who has returned to his hometown to deal with family affairs -- and plans to leave as soon as his business is concluded. Then Sabine’s mother appears, ready to discuss the family’s mysterious past. The last straw comes when the psychic gift Sabine has so vehemently rejected, revisits her in a vision she has about a painful family secret from which Dan is unable to free himself. Abounding in generosity and insight, The Fortune Teller’s Daughter is a powerful and moving exploration of the complexities of love.

Download or read book Fortune Tellers written by Lucy BOWMAN and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create 80 unique fortune tellers, a form of origami used in children's games, with this beautifully illustrated, tear-out pad. There are fortune tellers on lots of different themes, including the circus, robots and dreams, plus blank sheets for children to invent their own games. Perfect for playing alone or with friends and family.

Download or read book Origami Fortune Tellers written by Diane Heiman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen colorful origami fortune tellers offer kids loads of fun as they predict their futures at playdates, sleepovers, birthday parties, camp, or even by themselves. Pre-printed, perforated, and easy to fold, the paper toys feature themes ranging from Birthday Bash to Vacation Destination, plus 3 fill-in-the-blanks fortune tellers for personalized predictions.

Download or read book The Fortune Teller written by Gwendolyn Womack and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts—and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele’s life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him? The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interfere—someone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: the manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to possess.

Download or read book Every Summer After written by Carley Fortune and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A radiant debut."—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙ and more! Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Download or read book The Fortune Teller written by John Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fortune Teller s Bible written by Jane Struthers and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORTUNE-TELLING & DIVINATION. The Fortune-teller's Bible is the definitive guide to divination including numerology, scrying, face-reading and the I Ching. From palmistry to Chinese astrology and from the tarot to tea-leaf reading this book will help you discover the secrets of your own future and what the future holds for your family and friends. Featuring practical instructions together with the fascinating history of these ancient arts, this book is the essential reference for anyone who's ever wanted to gaze into a crystal ball.

Download or read book The Complete Fortune Teller written by Marc Lemezma and published by New Holland Australia(AU). This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortune-telling, in its various guises, is as popular now as ever, though it is still regarded as a mysterious and complex process. Marc Lemezma breaks the subject down into all the practical elements of the various fortune telling disciplines - covering runes, tarot, palmistry, cartomancy, and astrology.