FINANCE & LAW

Great Books for Senior Gifting.

FLORIDA SENIOR LEGAL GUIDE by Gregory G. Gay, Esq. I met Greg recently at a St. Petersburg Times forum of their Seniority columnists. While I have only a year with the Times, Greg is so well liked, his information considered so correct and easy-to-read, goes all the way back to the beginning, in 1991. Every Florida senior can use this information at one time or another. It contains up-to-date information necessary to make accurate legal decisions on living wills, prenups, trusts, annuities, estate and gift taxes, even pets-planning — everything legal from planning for retirement to the legalities of the funeral. BUY IT NOW FOR $18.95 AT AMAZON.
THE GREAT BUST AHEAD: THE GREATEST DEPRESSION N AMERICAN AND UK HISTORY IS JUST SEVERAL SHORT YEARS AWAY By Dan Arnold. Here is a concise, straight to the point book laying out in stark terms the case for a coming depression of historically unprecedented magnitude. It will be much worse than the 1930s, beginning perhaps as early as 2009-2010, and last up to thirteen years. Centered on hard fact demographics, the book may be a bit alarmist. At least my good friend Jim Van Horne, economics professor at Stanford, thinks so. But proof presented accurately accounts for the detailed trend of the economy from 1920 to today (something never before accomplished), and projects out to 2030 in detail. The book is very easy to read and understand, and requires no prior knowledge of economics. Down to earth things the average person can do to prepare for what is coming are covered. A summary of the catastrophic domestic social and international consequences is offered. BUY IT NOW FOR $8.95 AT AMAZON.
WEALTH AND OUR COMMONWEALTH: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes By Bill Gates, Sr., and Chuck Collins with a foreword by Paul Volcker. Gates, whose son cofounded Microsoft and became the wealthiest man on the planet, teams up with Collins, program director of the nonprofit United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth, to explain why the government should continue to levy estate taxes on the fortunes of America's wealthiest citizens (which President Bush, advocating its elimination, has provocatively called the "death tax"). In reviewing the tax's history, the authors explain the Founding Fathers' concern with maintaining conditions of equitability that would enable any American with sufficient ambition and perseverance to accumulate a fortune within his lifetime without creating a new aristocracy. Truly a remarkable treatise on saving our democracy and strengthening citizenship. BUY IT NOW FROM $17.50 AT AMAZON AND SAVE $7.50. OR, BUY USED FROM $10.49

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