More Money, Please
The Financial Secrets You Never Learned in School
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- $24.99
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
Personal finance 101—without the homework or quizzes
Most of us graduate high school with a basic understanding of history, math, science, and literature, but when it comes to personal finance—arguably the topic that we use most in our daily lives—we feel lost or overwhelmed. No longer! Cast aside your fear of FICO scores and your confusion about credit cards, because Scott Gamm, founder of HelpSaveMyDollars.com and student at NYU Stern School of Business is here to help.
MORE MONEY, PLEASE is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to money management. Gamm walks readers through the basics of personal finance, from savings accounts to student loans, including:
•The rules for building a budget—and sticking with it
•How to pay for college without getting into tons of debt
•Why getting a credit card is a good thing—if you pick the right one
•How to use your smart phone to pay bills on time
•Why it’s important to save for retirement right now
A must-read for college students and recent grads, MORE MONEY, PLEASE will show you how to take control of your finances.
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Gamm, founder of HelpSaveMyDollars.com, offers an energetic, encouraging financial guide. Hailing from an otherwise happy family torn apart by money woes, Gamm was determined not to let finances destroy his life. As a student at N.Y.U.'s Stern School of Business, he noted that no one he knew had had any personal finance education. He launched HelpSaveMyDollars.com to help his compatriots achieve financial health. This book, then, is the Personal Finance 101 version, covering the basics of budgeting, banking, credit and credit cards, debt, paying for college, job hunting, and planning for retirement, among other topics. Gamm's muscular writing style is perfect for his audience of students and recent graduates; he combines a tough-love attitude with confirmations that it's not their fault that they've had so little financial education and that the country is still slowly recovering from a long recession. "Our generation," he says caustically, "is getting screwed in a lot of ways." This slick, get-it-done guide will be highly useful for bewildered grown-ups-to-be.
