About the Author
Mark Tier’s Understanding Inflation became an Australian bestseller in 1974. Building on that success, he started the investment newsletter World Money Analyst which he moved, along with himself and his family, to Hong Kong in 1977. World Money Analyst had thousands of subscribers in 119 countries when he sold the business in 1991.
He was also Hong Kong correspondent for the New York Journal of Commerce in the late ’70s, and his articles on investing and other themes have appeared in Reason magazine, Time, The Australian, Liberty, Business Traveller, The South China Morning Post, Quadrant, and elsewhere. In 1984 he wrote How To Get A Second Passport which sold tens of thousands of copies around the world—and was shamelessly plagiarized in Greece, the Philippines, the UK and Canada. He is also co-editor (with Martin H. Greenberg) of two collections of science fiction stories: Give Me Liberty and Visions of Liberty (both published by Baen Books).
In 2005, Mark Tier and Martin H. Greenberg shared a Special Prometheus Award, given by the Libertarian Futurist Society, for Give Me Liberty and Visions of Liberty, The following year, the two anthologies were issued in a combined edition titled Freedom!
In addition to helping start five new (and highly successful) investment publications, he has been a marketing consultant and acted as a counselor and Investment Coach. A graduate in economics from the Australian National University, he began a PhD program in economics at UCLA. He is also a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
His other books include, The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros, How to Spot the Next Starbucks, Whole Foods, Walmart, or McDonald's—before its shares explode, When God Speaks for Himself: The Words of God You’ll Never Hear in Church or Sunday School, and the political thriller, Trust Your Enemies.
Mark Tier was founder of the investment newsletter World Money Analyst, which he published and edited until 1991. He is also the author of Understanding Inflation, which became a bestseller in Australia in 1974, and The Nature of Market Cycles.
In 1984 he wrote How To Get A Second Passport which sold tens of thousands of copies around the world—and was shamelessly plagiarized in Greece, the Philippines, the UK, and Canada.
He was Hong Kong correspondent for the New York Journal of Commerce in the late ’70s, a columnist for The Australian Stock Exchange Journal and Business Traveller, and his articles on investing and other themes have appeared in Reason magazine, Time, The Australian, Liberty, The South China Morning Post, Quadrant, and elsewhere.
He is also co-editor (with Martin H. Greenberg) of two collections of science fiction stories: Give Me Liberty and Visions of Liberty (both published by Baen Books). These two anthologies won a Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Future Society, and were later issued in one volume titled: Freedom!
Since 1991, in addition to helping start five new (and highly successful) investment publications, he has been a marketing consultant and acted as a counsellor. A graduate in economics from the Australian National University, he began a PhD program in economics at UCLA. He is also a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
His application of psychology to money and investing resulted in The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros, published in 2004. He identified the 23 mental habits that Warren Buffett, George Soros, and all other successful investors and commodity traders all practice religiously.
To date, The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros has been published in 14 editions in 9 different languages and sold over 335,000 copies world-wide.
His other books include How to Spot the Next Starbucks, Whole Foods, Walmart, or McDonald’s Before its shares explode, When God Speaks for Himself: The Words of God You’ll Never Hear in Church or Sunday School, Double or Triple Your Book’s Sales by Rewriting Only 5 to 10 Words, Trust Your Enemies, a political thriller; a story of power and corruption, love and betrayal—and moral redemption, Ayn Rand’s 5 Surprisingly Simple Rules for Judging Politicians. Read this, and you’ll never be fooled by a politician again.
And Ayn Rand’s “Character Loops,” an author’s analysis of Atlas Shrugged.
Acknowledgements
I owe special thanks to Leon Louw, his wife Frances Kendall—and their daughter Katy—without whose input this book would not have been possible.
If you have kids and/or grandkids I urge you to get Leon & Frances’ book, Super Parents, Super Children. You have a touch of their amazing parenting from the lead article—but there’s much, much, more.
I’m convinced that this book has made me a much better father.
— Jeremy Bernal