USA Today Review: Decisive: A Witty Guide to Good Decisions
It wasn’t a hard decision to review Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by the Heath brothers. The pair are a winning, and witty, writing team. Chip is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, and Dan is a senior fellow at Duke University’s Center for Advancement of Social [...]
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USA Today Review: Dark Side of Personal Finance Industry
It’s bleak in the circus-like world of personal finance. In Pound Foolish: Exposing The Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, author Helaine Olen casts a withering eye at personal finance journalists, talk show gurus, and the lion’s share of the financial services industry. Even Sesame Street’s furry Elmo is tainted, thanks to a seemingly [...]
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USA Today Review: ‘Encore Career’ has practical, inspiring advice
Nine million Boomers have already decided to choose alternatives to traditional retirement, to enjoy meaningful work in their “encore careers.” Another 31 million are interested in making the leap. “Research shows that 9 million people are already in encore careers, and another 31 million are keen to move in that direction,” writes Marci Alboher, the [...]
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USA Today: Book Review: Rebounders: How To Get Up And Succeed After Failing
When you get knocked down, do you get back up even stronger? That’s the core question financial journalist Rick Newman poses in his new book Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback to Success (Ballantine Books, 225 pages:26). “A lot of renowned and successful people have failed at something, occasionally at something big,” Newman writes. The important thing [...]
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USA Today Review: How to Be Richer, Smarter and Better Looking than Your Parents
There’s something about Zac Bissonnette’s outlook on life and money that just makes you smile and nod knowingly. In How to Be Richer, Smarter and Better Looking than Your Parents, the 23-year-old author takes you on a merry, albeit serious, ride along the financial road of potholes and dreams that he and his post-college cohorts are traveling. Bissonnette [...]
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USA Today Review: ALL THE MONEY CAN HELP YOU COME TO TERMS WITH FINANCE
“You Have More Money Than You Think” — the title of the introduction sets the tone for this upbeat and money-wise book, All the Money in the World, by author Laura Vanderkam. Vanderkam writes about finding inner peace with your finances, looking at money as a tool to bring joy to your life. Not so [...]
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‘GENERATION EARN’: BOOK TEACHES GEN-Y TO THRIVE FINANCIALLY
Read Published Article Buy the book Kimberly Palmer, author of Generation Earn: The Young Professional’s Guide to Spending, Investing, and Giving Back, is not buying into the notion that she and her cohorts are slackers destined to wallow in debt The senior editor and personal finance columnist for U.S. News & World Report admits that [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘WARREN BUFFETT INVESTS LIKE A GIRL”
By Kerry Hannon, No doubt the title of this new book —Warren Buffett Invests Like A Girl And Why You Should, Too — grabs your attention. But no snickering allowed. Calling legendary investor Warren Buffett a girly investor is not a put-down.. Turns out “investing like a girl” is a good thing. It refers to Buffett’s even temperament — [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: EVIL PLANS
Getting laid off was a good thing for ‘Evil Plans’ author Hugh MacLeod by Kerry Hannon Read Published Article Buy the book on Amazon.com There’s no doubt that Hugh MacLeod, author of Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination, loves his work. It bounces off every page of his crisp, slim, [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: DEBT FREE U
‘Debt-Free U’ offers degree in saving on college costs ‘Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education without Loans, Scholarships or Mooching off My Parents’ by Zac Bissonnette. Portfolio, 290 pages, $16 By Kerry Hannon Special Read Published Reviewmagine you’re a 21-year-old college senior with no student loans, a stock portfolio — [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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