Earned Income Credit: Opportunities to Make Recertification Program Less Confusing and More Consistent

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Very disappointed.......2005-11-23

Don't waste your money like I did. I was expecting something completely different. It is tarot, astrology, numerology, divination, magic and feng-shui techniques and 3 chaptors on stock market information. I would have given it 1 star except I don't like the word "hate" so 2 stars is dislike.

It would be great for a joke!

10 Years ahead of it's time........2000-03-12

Spirituality is a way of life to the people of my new home here in Thailand. They've been channeling the powers of Buddhism and the supernatural for many centuries, and I find it entertaining that magickal thinking -- with the help of Mr. Goodwin's book -- is only now getting around to infiltrating heartland America. Why is this resource such a shocking revelation? That using the psychic powers of the mind, body, and spirit can be used to create wealth via the stock market? Seemed obvious to me. And I was quite pleased that someone finally sat down and put it into words.

I'm a veteran player in the market. I've been doing it for more than 6-years now, and it is now my exclusive source of income. I only buy stocks at certain times of the year, and I found the information in this book was right on the money. I recommend that anyone whom invests in the markets read it, and, anyone who is considering jumping into the market, sit down and read it too.

Holy Cow!.......2000-01-13

Reading a book on investing doesn't sound like the most exciting way to spend an afternoon. I bought this book because I wanted to invest some money I've just come across but didn't want to enter that evil world of brokers and end up losing everything. This book was PERFECT because it explains the fundamentals of investing which beginners like myself need, yet it also goes into very deep and interesting places about psychic abilities that I think even veteran investors and brokers will find useful. And above that, it is even ENTERTAINING! Goodwin's commentary on New York City and the stories he tells are very funny and enlightening.

Whimsical.......1999-12-12

I wonder if the SEC and NASD know about this book? I sure hope not. Because it's to good to be true.

Gag gift? Hardly........1999-12-12

I wanted to hate this guy, and his book, but I just can't. My girl friend bought it for me as a gift, and I laughed at her. I thought it was just a joke. I said to her, "What the hell is this?" And there it sat on my desk unopened for about a week before a broker friend asked me the same damn question," What the hell is this," he said. "I don't know" I replied, "but by the way we're getting slammed in the market this month, I think we should both go read it." And then I started reading it first for a laugh and it reminded me of that Michael Lewis book, Liars Poker. Funny stuff. A lot of the Stock market coverage in this book I found a little elementary, but the psychic stuff is pretty deep and interesting. And who could argue with results? I like what he had to say about intuition being so critical in the investment game. Very true.

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A successful money manager and leading practitioner in the field offers sound advice on both ethical considerations and ``how-to'' financial strategies for investing in responsible funds, organizations and managers in global markets, not only to increase your net worth but to make the world a better place to live. Introduces a successful system earning high returns for funds managed by such proven players as Pax World, Dreyfus, Calvert, Parnassus and U.S. Trust. Reviews investment and social issues including corporate governance, women, family concerns and Third World economic development.

Socially Responsible Investing : Making a Difference and Making Money

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This book is a key in the door of freedom for investors!

Socially Responsible Investing : Making a Difference and Making Money
Amy Domini
Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
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ASIN: 0793141737
Release Date: 2000-12-19

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Put your money where your heart is!

It sounds like an oxymoron: Can you really make money as a socially responsible investor? The answer is, unquestionably, yes. The way you invest can contribute not only to your bottom line but also to a just and fair society. In Socially Responsible Investing, Amy Domini, the movement's pioneer and the name behind the Domini 400 Social Index, shows you how.

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This book is a key in the door of freedom for investors!.......2004-07-17

This is the best book I've read in over a year! The author is a skilled writer with a powerful, useful message. She teaches complex ideas in plain language and is easy to understand. One of the "ah-ha!" moments for me was how she helped me see that my fear of understanding finance and investments was because I didn't want to become a cause of human suffering just to make enough to retire comfortably, and that investments in stocks and bonds have traditionally caused companies to focus only on profits (at any cost). She gave me a way to invest with a conscience, and to live my values. I am very grateful, and wholeheartedly recommend this book.

Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution (Society of Investment Professions)

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Valuable primer for laymen. deep immersion for practitioners

Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution (Society of Investment Professions)
Russell Sparkes
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471499536

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Over recent years there has been rapid consumer-led growth in investing in socially responsible companies to the extent that it has had an influence on corporate policies. New regulations recognise the public interest by requiring all pension funds to declare their ethical policy. Investors can no longer just consider the financial aspects of a company before investing but also have to consider the complex world of ethical investments.

Should the ethical policy take precedence over the financial aspects?
Should policies be inclusive or exclusive?
What percentage of a company's income has to come from unacceptable sources before the source is excluded?
Should any exclusion policy also extend to those involved in selling or transporting goods deemed unacceptable?

This is the first book to look at socially responsible investment from the perspective of the institutional investor, who will be led through the complex dilemmas of socially responsible investment with practical examples and advice.

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Over the past decade, socially responsible investment (SRI) has changed from being a niche market to become a core consideration for mainstream investors. As such, pension fund advisers, trustees of charitable foundations and other investment professionals want to understand this new phenomenon. Up to now they have lacked any reference book to teach them what they need to know about SRI. This gap is now filled by the publication of Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution, the first book on SRI specifically written for investment professionals and their clients. The book will also help business executives and business schools looking at better corporate governance and business ethics.

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Valuable primer for laymen. deep immersion for practitioners.......2005-06-04

Amazing research yields inside details and direct quotations from the leaders and frontline participants in Socially Responsible Investing. The book discusses institutional and individual investors and explores the different constraints and preferences of those constituencies. Traces the history of SRI in the US and Britain then follows the idea as it is picked up and implemented around the globe. The book explores how the toolkit of social investors (exclusionary or aversion screening, positive screen, shareholder activism) is adapted to the character of specific national markets. Very honest and thorough treatment of whether there is a "performance penalty" to SRI makes a more convincing pro-SRI case than other books I've read that were overly glib. Extremely valuable read to come up to speed on history, issues, approaches.

Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (Business Economics)

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Valuable information for anyone wanting to understand how Socially Responsible Investing impacts pension funds

Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (Business Economics)
Jon Entine
Manufacturer: AEI Press
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ASIN: 084474218X

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This book shows that pension funds and mutual funds that screen investments according to social and ethical preferences frequently harm those people and causes (for example, the poor and the environment) that they are designed to help.

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Valuable information for anyone wanting to understand how Socially Responsible Investing impacts pension funds.......2006-01-13

The idea of corporate executives looting and mishandling pension funds (defined benefit programs) and harming their retiree's sickens all of us. Those that abuse these trusts (sacred trusts, in my book) should be punished. And if the law can't get them, they deserve every bit of public opprobrium we can send their way. However, it is vital to realize that the boardroom is not the only threat to pension fund well being. This book talks about the threat from those who would use the treasury of the funds they have been entrusted to administer for political and social engineering ends; too often at the cost of the people who depend on that money for their retirement.

This book consists of four essays; each discussing a different aspect of the ways in which the politicization of the administration and investing of pension funds puts the beneficiaries (actually, owners) of the funds at risk. While the book does not claim that pension funds are currently at risk of failing because of this activity, it does point out the ways in which such activities are costing retirees millions upon millions of dollars. That some claim this is small potatoes compared to the billions under management shows the danger of this collectivist mindset. If those millions are measured against each individual retiree, how many pensions are effectively squandered? That it might be claimed it is only pennies is beside the point. Whose pennies and dollars and tens of millions of dollars are being co-opted to indulge someone else's agenda?

The first essay by the editor, Jon Entine, lays out the nature and scope of the problem. While still small, the Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) movement is a disturbing trend. He does point out that that a CalPERS president had to be removed from the board because of his efforts to use the fund's great power to intervene in a dispute between Safeway and the union for which he was also executive director.

The second essay describes the different approaches to SRI and its financial realities. The approaches range from screening (hospital worker's funds not investing in tobacco stocks) to activist approaches to management (CalPERS) to transforming the corporation into a social entity with effects on its products and policies. The paper concludes that the amount of SRI is actually quite small and overstated. That its effects in the marketplace are nill and the purported benefits to investors is ambiguous at best. The paper concludes that screening is probably harmless because there are other investors to step in when the SRI fund pulls out. Screening makes sense when the members of the fund are like minded. However, in large funds with very diverse memberships, it is difficult to reconcile such deviations from the fiduciary responsibility maximum returns with such non-financial considerations.

The third essay lays out why the growth of these non-financial considerations and approaches threaten the property rights of the beneficiaries of the funds. The sheer volume of the money available attracts those who would use it for their own purposes. The author also compares the fiduciary responsibility required by these property rights versus the purely political Social Security program, which confers no property rights. The federal program versus state laws and regulations are also compared.

The fourth essay powerfully pulls together these threads to demonstrate the social agenda of many of these pension boards, how interconnected they are, and exposes their statements of these purposes. The seemingly benign but actually very radical notion of stakeholder ownership of corporations is also discussed. This popular doctrine is gaining ground in developed countries. The threats are not only to pensioners, but to the real owners of the firm, the shareholders, whose property is being disposed of by people who do not share their risk.

This is an interesting set of papers that I recommend to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of this additional threat to the pensions of millions of Americans. As an aside, I think this book provides yet another reason to switch to defined contribution plans from these defined benefit programs that are failing at an ever increasing pace for a variety of reasons.

The Corporate Report Card : Rating 250 of America's Corporations for the Socially Responsible Investor

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The Corporate Report Card : Rating 250 of America's Corporations for the Socially Responsible Investor
Council On Economic Priorities
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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ASIN: 0525942874

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More people than ever before are putting their money in stocks and mutual funds, and many of them are concerned about the social records and commitments of the companies they invest in. Companies earning high marks for responsible actions will find that their good works can be translated into investors' confidence and support. The Council on Economic Priorities, a public research organization dedicated to accurate and impartial analysis of the social and environmental records of corporations, provides just such detailed information in The Corporate Report Card. Each of the more than 250 entries are rated from A to F on information regarding the company's record including:

* Environmental issues
* Advancement of women and minorities
* Interaction with the community, volunteerism, charitable donations
* Benefits: 401K, medical coverage
* Legal proceedings of interest to investors
* Executive compensation
Where applicable, more than 20 company-specific "alerts" are also noted including weapons testing, animal testing, tobacco interests, nuclear power, product safety and international concerns Armed with the data from The Corporate Report Card, consumers, investors, managers, employees and activists can cast their economic votes as conscientiously as their political votes.

* The Corporate Report Card will appeal to investors and to job hunters and those concerned about the companies producing the products they buy.
* Institutions and individuals pay thousands of dollars to CEP for much of the information now available in The Corporate Report Card.

Ethical and Socially Responsible Investment (Resource Guides to Business Information Sources)

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Ethical and Socially Responsible Investment (Resource Guides to Business Information Sources)
Dominic Broadhurst , Janette Watson , and Jane Marshall
Manufacturer: K. G. Saur
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Investing for Good - Making Money While Being Socially Responsible (Step-by-step Guide for Doing Well Financially While Doing Good Socially)

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Investing for Good - Making Money While Being Socially Responsible (Step-by-step Guide for Doing Well Financially While Doing Good Socially)
Peter Kinder , Steven D. Lydenberg , and Amy L. Domini
Manufacturer: Harper Business
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P1ZWEI

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From three of the founders of the field of socially responsible investing, and the authors of the pioneering volume Ethical Investing, here is a completely up-to-date guide that teaches you how to create an investment portfolio that makes money without making you sacrifice your principles. Peter D. Kinder, Steven D. Lydenberg, and Amy L. Domini have made careers of identifying investment opportunities that respect clients' social and political interests and have a strong track record that proves you can invest profitably and still respect your conscience. Now they explain their strategies in a book that allows individual investors to guide their own course or better communicate with their own investment counselor. Using their techniques, you can select, research, and screen companies according to a list of criteria that distinguishes publicly traded companies by the soundness of their policies in areas you care about - whether the companies are "green" or have defense contracts, what their employee practices are, if they test products on animals, where their overseas investments go, and much more. Investors will also be able to use these principles and strategies to control and direct their assets, whether they choose to invest in mutual funds, pension funds, or stocks and bonds. Pension fund managers and other institutional investors have discovered socially responsible investing. Investments in socially screened vehicles increased ten-fold to $500 billion in the last eight years. The authors' Domini 400 Social Index fueled some of this demand by offering investors the first broad-based index to track U.S. common stocks. Now, with this new book, everyone has the opportunity to use his or her money wisely and still be responsible to society's needs.

An Investor's Guide to Ethical & Socially Responsible Investment Funds (Investor's Guide To...)

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An Investor's Guide to Ethical & Socially Responsible Investment Funds (Investor's Guide To...)

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The Sri Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially

ASIN: 0749441461

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* Of interest to analysts and financial advisors

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Highly Recommended!.......2005-10-03

This volume is a compendium of chapters written by editor John Hancock and other highly regarded experts. Their clear, comprehensive book appears to be targeted to fund managers and corporate investor relations officers, more than to average green-minded investors. Don't expect passionate jeremiads on the health of Mother Earth. Indeed, the authors point to a growing scientific consensus that nuclear power is the safest way to wean the world from fossil fuels, and they insist that investments must generate profits as well as good will. This sound, useful volume will help educate investors regarding the growing significance of the SRI movement. We recommend it strongly, in part thanks to its expansive appendices detailing ethical policies, standards, definitions and performance. Some years ago, a Sesame Street social philosopher named Kermit the Frog observed, "It's not easy being green." That may still be true, but - as this book points out - it is getting a lot more profitable.

Socially Responsible Investing: How to Invest With Your Conscience

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Socially Responsible Investing: How to Invest With Your Conscience
Alan J. Miller
Manufacturer: New York Inst of Finance
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Beyond Small Change.(socially responsible investing; includes related articles): An article from: The Other Side

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Beyond Small Change.(socially responsible investing; includes related articles): An article from: The Other Side
Scott Klinger
Manufacturer: The Other Side
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This digital document is an article from The Other Side, published by The Other Side on May 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2976 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The socially responsible investment community should change its focus to more effectively promote social justice. Socially responsible investors have been successful in bringing attention to ethical issues in business. However, too much effort has been given to identifying 'good' and 'bad' companies, while the deeper structural sources of injustice have not been addressed. Social investing should focus on issues such as control of capital to promote community development.

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Title: Beyond Small Change.(socially responsible investing; includes related articles)
Author: Scott Klinger
Publication: The Other Side (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1999
Publisher: The Other Side
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 18(1)

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In Untangling the Income Tax David F. Bradford helps the reader develop a sound grasp of how the design of tax rules affects the sharing of tax burdens and the performance of the economy as a whole. He also outlines various reform proposals and shows how they would change the way money moves out of the taxpayer's pocket and into government coffers.

Untangling a sec. 501(c)(7) club's Web pages.(Internal Revenue Code): An article from: The Tax Adviser

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Untangling a sec. 501(c)(7) club's Web pages.(Internal Revenue Code): An article from: The Tax Adviser
Mitchell L. Stump
Manufacturer: American Institute of CPA's
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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on July 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2678 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Untangling a sec. 501(c)(7) club's Web pages.(Internal Revenue Code)
Author: Mitchell L. Stump
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2000
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 31 Issue: 7 Page: 504

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