Good advice from Suze Orman, as always. However, her theme (of the crashed economy and the "dead" American dream - the old one anyway) was depressing and she flogged it like a dead horse. Plus some chapters were very very confusing - I get that the topics are complicated, but sometimes she left m...
Published in late 2008 this book was written just when the fallout from the economic crises was beginning to hit the average American schlub. As of November 2009 things only seem to be getting worse as each day passes. Unemployment is much higher than the #'s quoted in her book and every day more...
I'm not entirely sure why I read this, except that the library had it. This is basically a guide to weathering the financial crisis of 2008. It's typical Suze Orman advice, with a focus on debt & foreclosure recovery and making safe, conservative choices. I generally like the "problem / solution"...
This book was pretty light and very emotionally-driven. Not so much hard and concrete advice, like a 50-30-20 rule (All Your Worth), but more about how you feel about money and what you’re hoping to accomplish. It can’t hope to live up to its title, “9 Steps to Financial *Freedom*” because, to me...
The Money Class has been the most difficult book for me to write. For months I struggled to come to terms with just why I was having such a hard time with it, and that in itself was quite a jolt. After all, this is my tenth book; I wasn’t exactly suffering from a case of first-time jitters. Event...
I know it is painful for you, but trust me, the cold shoulder you are getting from the credit card industry is the best thing that could have happened to you. I’m just sorry this unhealthy relationship dragged on for so long. For years you, the American Consumer, were on an insatiable spending sp...
Toss in the garbage five dollars’ worth of food that’s gone bad; you may reprimand yourself, but you probably do it all the time. Buy a sweater on sale for thirty dollars, then notice six months later that you wore it only once; it just didn’t fit right; you give it away. Now try to rip up and th...