Online Little Rock is pleased to present this list of books from professionals in their respective fields -- people whose writings can help you avoid costly mistakes.
A penny saved truly is a penny earned. Some of the authors will show you how to save, how to invest, how to manage what money you have, and others will show you ways to generate extra income.
Fabulous finance writer Suze Orman writes for Generation Broke, those who don't know the difference between a 401K and Special K. This book should be in everyone's home library.
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The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. An Emmy-award winner, Orman is the author of four consecutive New York Times® bestsellers, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, The Courage to Be Rich, The Road to Wealth, and The Laws of Money. The Money Book addresses specific financial realities faced by young people today, and it offers a set of real solutions to current and future problems.
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The Wall Street Journal Personal Finance Guidebook in your personal library is sort of like having a cheat sheet to help control the financial portion of your life. Understanding your money, and getting it to work for you, has never been more important than it is today.
This guide covers such topics as banking, investing, borrowing, insurance, credit cards, taxes, budgeting and retirement planning. Learn more about this must-have guide by clicking here.
What can you do with $19 per week? Author Beth Koblinger explains, "Although I was eligible to start contributing to my company’s retirement savings plan when I was 24, I waited until I was 26—simply because I didn’t get around to it. And I paid dearly. I currently have $52,000 in my 401(k) retirement plan, but would have more than $112,000 if I had started saving when I was supposed to."
$19 per week earning 8% - if it's invested between ages 25 and 34 - just ten years of your life - will provide a retirement nest egg of $168,627 at age 65. If you wait till you're 35 to begin, the nest egg shrinks to $125,228. This information is the focus of just one chapter in Get a Financial Life.
The Motley Fool Personal Finance Workbook combines the humor of authors David and Tom Gardner while tackling the subject of money management, usually not a very humorous subject. You won't find any dazzling new insights on how to hire a financial planner or buy big-ticket items. You will find very friendly advisors who crack jokes as they dispense wisdom straight from the Fool's funny bone.
The workbook includes charts, graphs and checklists to help you along your personal financial path. Click here for more information.
We live in a credit-based economy where the average person has about $50,000 in unsecured debt. Your credit score is as important to you as money in the bank was to your parents and grandparents. You have no control over how your credit score is calculated, but you certainly have control over the circumstances that determine what your score is.
It's important that you know what financial institutions are doing; it's important that you know about the fine print of credit card issuers; it's important that you know about credit scores - most importantly - your credit score.
Over 720 million little pieces of plastic, known as credit cards, are used each year to purchase over $860 BILLION in products and services. It hasn't been that long ago that credit cards were offered only to a bank's elite customers to simplify paying for a night on the town of fine dining.
Today, credit cards are an intergral part of the world economy, and no place on earth is it more prevalent than the United States. Like any other financial instrument, credit cards require management. In order to manage something, you first must know how it works. David Evans, senior vice president of National Economics Research Associates, shows you just that in Paying with Plastic.
Credit Card & Debt Management has been called the perfect book to give someone in their 20's or 30's. The author explains why you should not pay off credit card debt with savings and that you should not cut up your credit cards. He presents systematic methods for managing credit card debt and other debt as well.
Read it for yourself. Buy it for a child or grandchild. Today's response might be, "Oh...thanks." Down the road you might hear, "I really want to thank you for that book you gave me years ago; it's truly been a blessing." Click here for more information.
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need has been called the Investment Bible since it was published 20 years ago. The style of author Andrew Tobias is as straight and to-the-point today as it ever was. "Save yourself the trouble of agonizing over the choice and go with the Roth IRA," he writes.
Basic finance rules haven't changed. Basic investing rules haven't changed. Tobias likens online trading to sitting in front of a slot machine. It simply beckons you to point-n-click. His advice. Avoid it.
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Author Larry Jameson is CEO of NetVentures Unlimited, Inc., an Arkansas-based corporation, a member of the International Council of Online Professionals and webmaster for Online Little Rock. Larry holds membership in the International Travel Writers & Publishers Alliance. He is also the author of Is Your Online Business Legal? and numerous articles published on websites around the world.
is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. An Emmy-award winner, Orman is the author of four consecutive New York Times® bestsellers, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, The Courage to Be Rich, The Road to Wealth, and The Laws of Money. The Money Book addresses specific financial realities faced by young people today, and it offers a set of real solutions to current and future problems.
