Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties Author: Beth Kobliner Shaw | Language: English | ISBN:
B001UP63MS | Format: EPUB
Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties Description
The bestselling book that the
New York Times hailed as “a highly readable and substantial guide to the grown-up realms of money and business,”
Get a Financial Life is a must-read for anyone in their twenties and thirties (or beyond) who wants to understand the basics of personal finance.
If you’ve been meaning to get your finances in shape but have no idea where to start,
this is your playbook.
Get a Financial Life busts open the system, teaching tricks for becoming master of your own money universe. No matter what’s happening in the economy, all the guidance you need is right here. You’ll learn how to:
• Pay off your credit cards and student loans and live debt free
• Start saving, even if you’re living paycheck to paycheck
• Take advantage of the latest tax rules and save a bundle
• Find smart investments while still supporting socially responsible companies
• Come up with a down payment and buy a home, even in a tough economy
• Afford grad school
• Protect yourself from identity theft
And you’ll discover why a 401(k) is your best friend—in boom times and even if the market is tanking.
From tracking your spending to finding deals on insurance to navigating the new world of homebuying, this easy-to-understand, comprehensive guide provides an up-to-date road map of the world of personal finance. Whether you earn $30,000 or $300,000, are single or married, are drowning in debt or just looking for ways to keep your savings secure in uncertain times, you’ll find the answers you need in
Get a Financial Life.“A daring book….A life’s worth of smart financial advice” (
Newsweek).
- File Size: 1005 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone; 3rd edition (March 17, 2009)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001UP63MS
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,568 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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First, I would like to disagree with the two extremely negative commentators that found this book patronizing. Although this book is obviously intended for beginners, I don't think Kobliner intended for anyone to take the beginner level content personally. For example, Kobliner did not insinuate that Gen. X-ers can't use credit cards responsibly. For those who can't, however, or for those who feel overwhelmed with the amount of debt they have taken on, Kobliner provides the financial framework for knowing why you should pay your credit cards as soon as possible. I think that the summary of the book & the cutesy cover should have given these two readers a clue that the book was intended for those with a limited financial background. Lynch would be terribly heavy reading for people unfamiliar with the business world.
That said, I found this book very informative. Obviously, personal finance is a vast subject and so this book serves as a brief overview of such topics as different types of bank accounts, paying your student loans back, saving for retirement, what to look for when renting an apartment, and how to buy a house. I bought this book a couple of months before my dad cut the purse strings and I graduated from college. Although I majored in accounting, I learned mostly theory in school. I found the investing content particularly informative and I opened my IRA ASAP. It is now been a little more than a year and I do think that I have "outgrown" most of the subject matter, but I still use this book for reference. When I buy a house, I will now know about the different types of mortgages and how much I should set aside. Of course, if schools taught personal finance, I wouldn't need this at all.
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