GET A FINANCIAL LIFE:
PERSONAL FINANCE IN YOUR TWENTIES AND THIRTIES
Get a Financial Life is a real-world guide for millennials that busts open the system, teaching tricks for becoming master of your own financial universe.
Unlike most personal finance books, Get a Financial Life focuses exclusively on what you need to know when you're just starting to pay serious attention to money matters. Whether you earn $20,000 or $200,000, Get a Financial Life will help you navigate the new world of personal finance.
Get a Financial Life offers fresh solutions and cutting-edge tools in this brave new world of financial madness. The book covers everything a young person needs to know to get on the path to long-lasting financial security. It's one-stop shopping for understanding all the pieces of the confusing economic puzzle—from debt and housing issues to banking, investing, taxes, and insurance. Kobliner writes with compelling clarity, and reveals surprising information along the way, like why the latest trends in health insurance can hurt you, and why money market accounts can be among the worst places to save. Other hot topics include how to:
- Dig yourself out of debt: With the average college student leaving school with $20,000 in student loans and $3,000 in credit card debt, discover the best strategy to pay off loans
- Buy a home in spite of the credit crunch, mortgage crisis, and a low salary
- Restore credit: Find out why credit scores matter, and how to get yours to 720 or higher
- Find a safe bank amid the latest bank scares and what to watch out for in online banking
- Profit from the stock market—the smart way—even if you don't have a lot of money
- Save a fortune on insurance by shopping around and skipping coverage you don't need
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Here's what people are saying about Get a Financial Life:
"Stop worrying and start reading Beth Kobliner's Get a Financial Life, the best book to help you understand your money in the toughest financial market since the Great Depression."
- Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money
"Get a Financial Life gives clear, straightforward advice on how to manage your money-even in a financial meltdown. A must-read for 20- and 30-somethings who want to be fiscally smart and financially secure."
- Soledad O'Brien, CNN
"A daring book aimed at Generation X'ers unafraid of a blunt author who will tell them what to do fast…A life's worth of smart financial advice."
-Newsweek
"Shaw said youth is wasted on the young. I suspect the Kobliner financial wisdoms will work out well at all our ages."
-Paul A. Samuelson, Professor of Economics Emeritus, MIT; Nobel Laureate in Economics