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The smartest money book you'll ever read : everything you need to know about growing, spending, and enjoying your money / Daniel R. Solin.

by Solin, Daniel R.

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New York, NY : Perigee, 2012.

Finance, Personal.

xiv, 290 p. ; 23 cm.

Reversal of fortune -- Wrapping your mind around your money. Bad things happen to good people ; Lifestyles of the broke and homeless ; What marshmallows can teach you about money ; A map won't help without a destination -- Master your universe. Focus on your net worth ; The thrill of a budget beats the agony of poverty ; Pay yourself first ; Build savings muscle -- Freedom from debt. Don't abet debt ; Debt out! ; The nuclear debt option ; Edit your credit -- The home dilemma. Investing in your home ; Home economics : Should you buy or rent? ; Foreclosures and short sales ; Outliving your mortgage -- Rest insured : solving the insurance Rubik's Cube. The term of your life ; Cash value life insurance ; Annuities : don't toss the baby out with the bathwater ; Health insurance -- The investment industry : friend and foe. Goldman Sachs : paragon or pariah? ; The fix is (still) in ; Wall Street's casinos ; Advice about advisers -- Don't fight the markets. Don't just do something, stand there ; May the (market) force be with you ; Why index funds work for investors ; The risk-return tradeoff -- Putting your money to work. Assessing your risk capacity ; Fighting the worst enemies of high returns ; The simple logic of asset allocation ; A simple way to implement your investing plan -- Real retirement planning. How much will you need? ; Beating the 401(k) rip-off ; Making your money outlive you ; Sources of cash in retirement -- Life (and death) events. Kids cost money ; Giving back -- In sickness and in wealth ; Estate planning basics -- Putting it all together. Get a budget ; Get out of debt ; Get a home ; Get insured ; Get invested ; Bulletproof your plan.

This book breaks financial planning and money management into bite-size pieces, and gives you advice you can act on immediately. Solin shows you how to: analyze your money problems and get motivated to solve them; get out of debt fast, and draw up a budget you can live on--and live with; blow off commission-driven advisers and take control of your financial future; buy the life and health insurance you need--and only what you need; invest so that your money works for you, not someone else. Whether your goal is to save money, get out of debt, make the right real estate move, cut college costs, retire early, or leave a legacy, this book shows you what to do and when to do it. And along the way, Solin points out pitfalls that cost you money while enriching banks, brokers, and lenders.--From publisher description.

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