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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‘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: TIPS ON NAVIGATING THE NEW MIDLIFE STAGE
By Kerry Hannon Read Published Article Buy the book on Amazon.com Marc Freedman kicks off The Big Shift: Navigating The New Stage Beyond Midlife, with a tale of pulling out his newly minted AARP card to score the “senior discount” at the Homewood Suites in Medford, Ore., while requesting two cribs for a room where his [...]
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ADULTHOOD II, THE SEQUEL
Read published article Composing a Further Life author Mary Catherine Bateson discusses achieving perspective and peace in the second half of life. By Kerry Hannon|February 21, 2011 Mary Catherine Bateson wants to upend the way we think of aging. In her latest book, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom, the renowned anthropologist coins a [...]
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LIZ WESTON’S ’10 COMMANDMENTS’ FOR LIVING WELL
Read the published article | Buy the book at amazon.com You want Liz Weston on your money management team. In the past 15 years, Weston, author of The 10 Commandments of Money: Survive and Thrive in the New Economy, has steadily built a following as a personal finance journalist who solves problems. Weston is an educated [...]
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BOOK ON MONEY TELLS HOW AUTHOR LOST HERS
Read published article Buy the book at amazon.com In her new book, Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity(Grand Central Publishing, $24.99, 426 pages), Sarah Ban Breathnach, exorcises her own “tawdry money secrets” and reveals what she calls “a feminine cannon of cautionary tales.” Enlarge Ban Breathnach has written a money book for women that [...]
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BARTIROMO’S ‘WALL STREET’ DIGS INTO TALE OF LEHMAN TALKS
By Kerry Hannon Special for USA TODAY Read Published Article: USA TODAY Maria Bartiromo is a market force in her own right. Buy the book on Amazon.com She’s the anchor of CNBC’s Closing Belland host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated Wall Street Journal Reportwith Maria Bartiromo. Her stock in trade is making sense of how the market [...]
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