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  • Jean Chatzky

    Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever
    Get Rich, Don’t Bitch

    “I don’t have time to deal with my money.”

    “Managing money and investing is too intimidating.”

    “I’m not a numbers person.”

    “My husband takes care of our finances.”

    “I’m just not good with money.”


    Jean Chatzky has heard all the excuses for why women don’t deal with their finances. She used to make them herself. For the first time, Jean tells you how she made every financial mistake in the book—not paying her bills, going into credit card debt, letting her 401(k) lapse—before finally making the decision to take control of her money and her future.

    Whether you’ve made these mistakes or you want to avoid them, if you’re ready to take charge of your financial life then this is the book for you. In it, Jean shares these valuables lessons:

    • Where to start

    • How to decode financial jargon (it’s easier than you think)

    • How to get over your “I’m not smart enough to deal with money” feelings

    • Why being a “good-enough investor” will make you more money in the long-term (while trying to be a “great investor” will drive you crazy)

    • Why you might think you are bad at math, and why that doesn’t have to be true

    • How (and where) to save your money

    • Why women make better investors—and higher returns—than men

    Jean is famous for her ability to explain money and investing. In a clear and accessible way, she breaks down all the scariest parts of dealing with money—from investing in stocks to saving for your retirement—to make them doable, easy, and yes, even enjoyable. She also includes throughout a “Map to a Million,” great tips on easy and quick financial changes you can make immediately . . . that really add up!


    Are You Ready to Be Rich?

    If you want to get rich, if you want to be wealthier than you are today, you really need to do only four things. That’s right, just four things.

    • You need to make a decent living

    • You need to spend less than you make

    • You need to invest the money you don’t spend so that it can work as hard for you as you’re working for yourself

    • And you need to protect yourself and this financial world you’ve built so that a disaster—big or small—doesn’t take it all away from you

    Everything else is just window-dressing. The fees—and how to avoid them. The advisors—and how to hire them. The deals. The scams. The ins. The outs. They are all interesting. Some of them are even quite important. But until you have conquered the heart of the matter, they are all minutia.

    The four cornerstones, by contrast, are the meat and potatoes of your financial life. If you do those things today, you’ll start getting rich tomorrow. And once you feel set financially, you’ll be able to start focusing on the truly important things in life. —from the Introduction
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  • Manisha Thakor, Sharon Kedar

    On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl's Guide to Personal Finance

    Whether you've been living paycheck-to-paycheck, are trying to save for a down payment on your first home, or are hoping to one day retire in comfort, ON MY OWN TWO FEET can help. This succinct guide will teach you how to balance your desire to live well today with the need to save and invest for tomorrow. In this lively, no-nonsense financial primer you will learn:

    * How much of your income to save
    * How to avoid the perils of credit card debt
    * How to create a budget you can live with (and still have fun!)
    * How to invest wisely using a powerful, keep-it-simple plan
    * How to deal with real life situations - such as figuring out how much home or car you can afford & how to handle money when you couple up with that someone special

    ON MY OWN TWO FEET redefines Personal Finance 101. The sooner you apply the basic financial concepts highlighted by Thakor and Kedar, the more likely it is that you'll achieve common life goals such as owning a home, providing for yourself or your family, taking fun vacations, and retiring in comfort -- all free from financial stress.

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  • Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi

    The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
    More than two decades ago, the women's movement flung open the doors of the workplace. Although this social revolution created a firestorm of controversy, no one questioned the idea that women's involvement in the workforce was certain to improve families' financial lot. Until now.In this brilliantly argued book, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and business consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are suffering from an unprecedented and totally unexpected economic meltdown. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but actually has less discretionary income once their fixed monthly bills are paid.How did this happen? Warren and Tyagi provide convincing evidence that the culprit is not "overconsumption," as many critics have charged. Instead, they point to the ferocious bidding war for housing and education that has quietly engulfed America's suburbs. Stay-at-home mothers once provided a financial safety net if disaster struck; their move into the workforce has left today's families chillingly at risk. The authors show why the usual remedies--child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women--won't solve the problem, and propose a set of innovative solutions, from rate caps on credit cards to open-access public schools, to restore security to the middle class.
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  • Caitlin Friedman, Kimberly Yorio

    The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch): Valuable Lessons, Smart Suggestions, and True Stories for Succeeding as the Chick-in-Charge
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  • Suze Orman

    The Courage to Be Rich: Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance (Unabridged)
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  • Ben Stein

    How to Ruin Your Life
    This book is a collection of Ben Stein’s “How To Ruin” Series:
     
    · How to Ruin Your Life
    · How to Ruin Your Love Life
    · How to Ruin Your Financial Life
     
    These books will not only make you laugh out loud, they will allow you to honestly assess your life. Learn from these books—and for heaven’s sake, do the opposite right now!
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