Personal Finance
78 Articles & Excerpts
So You Started Late- Give Yourself A Break Already!
 Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age
by David Bach
David Bach has a plan to help you live and finish rich-no matter where you start. So you feel like you've started late? You are not alone. What if I told you that right now as you flip through this book, 70% of the people in the store with you are living
Playing The 'Back 9'
 The Retirement Savings Time Bomb: How to Defuse It
by Ed Slott
In the not so distant past, the issue of protecting retirement savings rather than investing for retirement might have been considered putting the cart before the horse. Not any longer.
Why Smart Couples Are Taking Control of Their Financial Future
 Smart Couples Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner
by David Bach
Fighting about money is the #1 reason for divorce in America. From first-time newlyweds at the start of new careers to people marrying later in life or on their second or third marriage, couples face an overwhelming task when creating and managing a two
Understanding the 'Why' of Real Estate
 Rich Dad's Real Estate Advantages: Tax and Legal Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investors
by Garrett Sutton, Esq., Sharon L. Lechter C.P.A.
Real Estate Advantages is for first-time as well as seasoned real estate investors. It reveals the tax and legal loopholes available and most important, how they can be used together to not only maximize your income - but accelerate your income
Children and Money
 The First National Bank of Dad
by David Owen
Money is a handy tool if you use it wisely. Even very young children get the hang of it in a hurry. In the baby-blanket incident just described, my wife narrowly averted a family crisis by offering to swap an emotionally neutral symbol (money)
Credit Report: How to Dispute and Correct Wrong Information
by FTC
Explains how to dispute and correct inaccurate information in your credit report. Includes a sample dispute letter. Your credit report contains information about where you live, how you pay your bills, and whether you've been sued, arrested, or filed
It's About Your Money, It's About Your Freedom
Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age
by David Bach
If I could give you only one gift, it would be the gift of freedom. The gift to be the person you were put here to be. Why? Because you are a very special person. In fact, you're unique. There is no one like you on the planet.
Architects of Fate: Steps to Success and Power
by Orison Swett Marden
If a man will begin at the age of twenty and lay by twenty-six cents every working day, investing at seven percent. compound interest, he will have thirty-two thousand dollars when he is seventy years old.
What Is the Price of Being Cheap?
 Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich... Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards
by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter C.P.A.
These days conventional wisdom seems to state that in order to become wealthy you must cut up your credit cards and save by putting the maximum amount of your paycheck into your 401k retirement plan.
Being Rich Doesn't Guarantee Your Happiness
 You Don't Have to Be Rich
by Jean Chatzky
Being rich doesn't guarantee your happiness. Being poor doesn't rob you of it. Want proof? Meet Nancy and Lloyd. They're a two-career couple living outside Chicago.
Phantom Children
The earned income tax credit (EITC) is one of the few antipoverty programs to survive from the 1970s that has won praise from Republicans and Democrats alike. President Ronald W. Reagan, a Republican, called it 'the best antipoverty, the best pro-family
Keep It Together
 Parlay Your IRA into a Family Fortune: 3 Easy Steps for creating a lifetime supply of tax-deferred, even tax-free, wealth for you and your family
by Ed Slott
One would assume that most estate planners (as well as books on estate planning) address this issue. But they don't. Yes, they cover how to inherit a house, stocks, insurance, and so on, because these are easy to inherit.
Invisible Workers and Untaxed Profits
None of this is to suggest that you need establish a mysterious offshore link and work for companies based in tax havens to avoid paying U.S. income tax. Truth to tell, many people in the computer field, especially programmers and systems analysts
Understanding Credit and Divorce
by FTC
Encourages recently divorced consumers, and those contemplating divorce, to look closely at issues involving credit. Understanding the different kinds of credit accounts opened during a marriage may help illuminate the potential benefits - and pitfalls
Analyzing Your Responses
 Nice Girls Don't Get Rich : 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
Now go back and analyze each of your responses from both inventories. You may find overlapping themes or even contradictory ones. In the case of the latter, it could mean that you have gotten conflicting messages or that you disagree with the messages you
Meeting the Automatic Millionaire
What's the secret to becoming a millionaire? For years people have asked David Bach what's the real secret to getting rich? You don't need a budget, You don't need willpower, You don't need to make a lot of money, You don't need to be that interested in
The Road to Financial Healing
 Girl, Get Your Money Straight: A Sister's Guide to Healing Your Bank Account and Funding Your Dreams in 7 Simple Steps
by Glinda Bridgforth
If you're tired of feeling powerless over your finances and are ready to start funding your dreams, then come on girl-it's time to get your money straight! Author and financial expert Glinda Bridgforth knows that healthy money management is rarely
From Broke Boomer to Blazing Bloomer
 The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy
by Douglas R. Andrew
According to Doug Andrew too many Americans are being led down the wrong financial path. Even worse, many Baby Boomers find themselves panicking - fearful that they've already fallen too far behind to ever catch up.
Financial Security on Your Own Terms
You Don't Have to Be Rich
by Jean Chatzky
It was shortly after September 11 a time of turmoil in the markets, when it was impossible to read the newspapers, turn on the television, or even listen to the radio without feeling out of control financially that I started to think about the effects
What My Daughter Owes Me
 Callie's Tally: An Accounting of Baby's First Year
by Betsy Howie
I am not one of those women who has always known. In fact, they amaze me-those women. They fell in love with the idea of babies back when they were barely more than babies themselves.
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