Personal Finance For Dummies Reviews
Personal Finance For Dummies
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Now updated-the proven guide to taking control of your finances The bestselling Personal Finance For Dummies has helped countless readers budget their funds successfully, rein in debt, and build a strong foundation for the future. Now, renowned financial counselor Eric Tyson combines his time-tested financial advice along with updates to his strategies that reflect changing market conditions, giving you a better-than-ever guide to taking an honest look at your current financial health and
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By Anonymous, Monday @ 8:07 am
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When I bought the first edition of this book, I was a poor post-graduate loaded with bad debt. At the time, I knew nothing about CD’s, funds, stocks, bonds, insurance, 401(k)’s, home-buying, budgeting, saving, debt-reduction, taxes, or any other basic issues of personal finance. All I knew is that I never could seem to “get ahead” financially. Tyson’s book led me from this sorry state through four years of self-education and growing self-confidence about controlling my own financial future. Even now, debt-free and market-positioned, I still reference this book when I encounter a new facet of my financial life. No “get-rich-quick” scheme, Tyson lays out a solid framework for anyone interested in getting and maintaining control of their own financial situation throughout a lifetime. The ideas he lays out help a person not only educate him/herself concerning money, but also instill confidence that a financial situation can be corrected or controlled personally.Although this book would serve as a valuable reference to ANYONE interested in their own financial future, it would especially be useful to a young person just “starting out” or to any person who feels overwhelmed by their own financial situation.
By R. G. May, Monday @ 8:51 am
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I work as a financial professional, counseling individuals regarding the options in their employer-sponsored retirement plans. Although the counsel I can give is limited to their retirement plan, several have asked me for advice in other areas of their financial lives. I do not hesitate to recommend this book. Whether you are starting from square one in getting your financial house in order, or your checkbook is balanced to the penny every week, there is information in this book that will benefit you. The “For Dummies” format is perfect for this subject, and Eric Tyson does an excellent job of breaking into layman’s terms the most complex of finance and investing concepts. Also, an excellent section on selecting a financial planner is provided. I have often seen the devastating effects that the wrong financial advice has wrought in people’s lives. The list of criteria to apply when seeking a financial advisor is one of the most valuable tools I have seen on the subject. This book is one of the most valuable resources I have ever seen in helping the average person get control of their financial lives. Applying its principles will pay immediate as well as long-lasting rewards.
By Anonymous, Monday @ 9:21 am
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Personal Finance for Dummies is one of the better Personal Finance Books written post 1995. Although there is a wealth of information, there are also a lot of holes. Nevertheless, a great book for anyone interested in Personal Finance. I also strongly recommend “More Wealth without Risk” and “Financial Self Defense” by Charles Givens and “The Truth about Money” to help fill in some of the holes that Mr Tyson missed.
By Anonymous, Monday @ 9:23 am
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I really enjoyed Mr Tyson’s book. Very well written and enlightening. For even more strategies and also a easy read, I highly suggest Financial Self Defense by Charles Givens. Givens goes into areas left untouched by Tyson. Tyson and Givens books should be on everyone’s bookshelf serious about their financial future. Read and grow rich.
By Martin Anderson, Monday @ 10:01 am
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They don’t teach personal finance in schools. In this book, author Tyson teaches what every high school in the nation should teach anyone who plans to earn money.
This book provides excellent advice on how to save your money and how to set your savings and spending priorities. In particular, Tyson takes into account the tax advantages and disadvantages of various approaches, and he gives an easy to implement way to maximize the tax benefits that the government provides to encourage wise financial decisions.
It is true that the author likes Vanguard’s mutual funds and his book clearly recommends them (along with some others). He’s in good company: Consumer Reports also recommends some of Vanguard’s mutual funds, and Vanguard consistently has the lowest costs in the mutual fund industry.
Finally, a word of advice: Avoid, avoid, avoid any book that recommends dubious tax evasion schemes like starting your own fictitious business for the purpose of taking tax deductions on personal expenses. Instead, buy this book and follow Tyson’s recommendations on taking advantage of legitimate tax benefits associated with wise saving and spending.
By John C. Lopez, Monday @ 10:18 am
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I am the instructor of a Personal Finance class at a major university and use this book in my classroom. I researched many books on personal finance before settling on this one. It is a comprehensive book which is well laid out, easy to read, and easy to understand. When I chose a book for my students, I intended it to be one which they could use not only in class but to keep as a reference for the future. This book met that requirement.
By Peter Borten, Monday @ 10:55 am
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First of all, I just need to get this off my chest: at least 75% of the “reviews” for this book are merely people saying that the book arrived in good condition or it didn’t come with the CD-ROM, etc. This isn’t Ebay, these aren’t actually REVIEWS, and nobody cares that you didn’t get the CD.
As for the book, it gives a decent, thorough coverage of various topics in financial planning, such as insurance, investing, record keeping, etc. There is a moderate amount of fluff in the book, such as case studies that sound fabricated, and examinations of various commercial products, like credit cards or financial services that read like ads. It’s hard not to wonder if the publishers took money from these companies to waste pages talking about their products.
The most important thing to tell you is this: In the back of the book is a personal financial planner you may be asked to fill out for a college course, or you may want to use for your own benefit. If you’d rather not write in the book or rip the pages out, you can download a software version of this planner from the McGraw Hill website. However, this is the crappiest, most buggy, unreliable piece of junk ever. I spent WEEKS inputting all my information, only to have it all disappear with no trace. I am quite computer literate, and I scrounged the computer for a trace of my lost data, but it was nowhere to be found. Now, when I fill out a page in the planner, I hit SAVE immediately. But even then, when I switch to another page and go back to the page I already filled out, the data is gone. No customer support. Junk. Either don’t use it, or print out each page as you fill it out.
By Anonymous, Monday @ 11:51 am
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To make the long story short, when I started to work as a CSR in a bank, I kept this book as a reference on my desk. Before that I tried to ask the branch manager – he didn’t have a clue. In the end, I put it in bank’s “Better Practices Manual” binder and used it it explain products to the customers.
By J. A. Moser Miller, Monday @ 12:05 pm
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This text was one of the best broad topic covering works I’ve seen in ages. As a college student you long for something that covers many horizons and yet does go into moderate depth. This work struck an excellent middle ground of “not too deep” and “not too few topics”.
Tons of great information in one text that was even organized with rationality.
By Martha Smith, Monday @ 12:47 pm
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This book is one that should be kept in your library of books. Loads of information on how to become financially secure in your future. Thanks!