This is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order
Written by John Schwartz
Narrated by Kaleo Griffith
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A New York Times correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all.
Money management is one of our most practical survival skills—and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order is the book that everyone who has never wanted to read a preachy financial guide has been waiting for.
John Schwartz and his wife, Jeanne, are pre-retirement workers of an economic class well above the poverty line, but well below the one percent. Sharing his own alternately harrowing and hilarious stories—from his brush with financial ruin and bankruptcy in his thirties to his short-lived budgeted diet of cafeteria french fries and gravy—John will walk you through his own journey to financial literacy, which he admittedly started a bit late. He covers everything from investments to retirement and insurance to wills (at fifty-eight, he didn't have one!), medical directives and more. Whether you're a college grad wanting to start out on the right foot or you're approaching retirement age and still wondering what a 401(K) is, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order will help you become your own best financial adviser.
Editor's Note
Confront your fears…
Putting off dealing with your money because you’re worried you don’t know enough? This straightforward and engaging guide gives you the tools to put your finances in order. Covering everything from investments, retirement, insurance and wills, you’ll learn how to be your own best financial adviser.
John Schwartz
Schwartz’s first novel In The Shadow of Babylon rose to the top of Amazon Kindle's Action/Adventure list. KIRKUS Review wrote... “an epoch-spanning thriller. The prose is something to behold... the author deftly weaves the romantic experiences of a pre-historical shepherd into an extended homily in the best page-turner fashion... evocative... lyrical, mystical and shocking... A wonderfully written, provocative novel."John has lived and worked in the USA, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Fiji. He was one of the first American businessmen to enter China after the Cultural Revolution. In the early 1990’s John and his family established a successful English/Chinese language publishing company based in Hong Kong.John’s poetry placed first in the 71st Annual Writers Digest National Writing Competition (2002). His winning eleven-line poem was not about love, broken hearts, or death... it was about a skyscraper in Hong Kong. Robert Pinsky (U.S. Poet Laureate 1997-2000) called John’s writing “... vivid ... gritty ... vigorous.”John will tell you he has lived well, loved often, cried frequently, hated little, cherished the present, ignored regrets, and often lost sight of the desitnation while relishing the trip.Do what they manhood bids thee do,from none but self expect applause.He noblest lives and noblest dieswho makes and keeps his self-made laws.— Richard Francis Burton
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book .. it gives good suggestions , resources and valuable tips to improve our financial conditions
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Deeply personal, engaging and informative account of the author's financial journey.
Good guide to all aspects of financial planning such as retirement planning, college finance, credit management, mortgage finance and life insurance.1 person found this helpful
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