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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance gives you clear, simple explanations of the complextities you face every day in your financial life. This revised and updated edition also includes the information you’ll need to make smart decisions about — and avoid the pitfalls of — banking, credit, home finance, financial planning, investing and taxes.Amazon.com Review
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The Wall Street Journal Guide To Understanding Personal Finance
February 5, 2010 at 11:03 am
This book will help even the most dummie when coming to finances. It has saved time, money and brain cells. Buy or be broke.
Rating: 3 / 5
February 5, 2010 at 11:07 am
If you know anything about loans, checking accounts, buying a home or mutual funds don’t buy this book. The title should be: “Don’t Buy This Book and Save Some Personal Finances!”
Rating: 1 / 5
February 5, 2010 at 1:08 pm
The WSJ Guides are great quick-reference guides. The authors explain topics clearly and distinctly without confusing or talking down to the reader. They also use lots of illustrations. I think you will find these books to be a good value.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 5, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I found this book, and the companion piece Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing, practically worthless. I have heard raves about this book’s presentation. I think the presentation is far too simplistic. This book did not hold my attention one bit and I quickly put it down. If you are looking for a mature introduction to the Market and or Personal finance I recommend you keep looking past these two books.
Rating: 2 / 5
February 5, 2010 at 4:30 pm
I’ve just graduated from college and wanted to learn how to not be poor anymore. I bought this book because I knew about Wall Street Journal’s reputation for expertise and in-depth analysis of the economy etc. What I didn’t expect was a book equivalent to a children’s primer on personal finance. It’s not bad, per se, it’s just not what I expected from the Wall Street Journal.
The book covers a broad range of topics from paper money to mortgages to stocks and bonds. Unfortunately, the coverage is shallow, mostly giving definitions of what things are. The book consists of teen magazine-like layouts of pictures, graphs, and diagrams. Some of the information is helpful while some of it is interesting but trivial, and all of it is in colorful, bite-sized portions. While it’s entertaining and easy-to-understand, it’s also quite “fluff”-y at times.
It’s a good introduction to personal finance for someone who doesn’t know much about how money works beyond how to buy things. It may be ok for new high school or college grads, either as a reference or a first book on personal finance but it’s not at the level for anyone who actually wants to start investing and already knows the basics. Ironically, it seems to be below the level of Wall Street Journal readers. I have since given my copy away. For someone who already knows the basics but wants a introduction to investing, I enjoyed “The First Book of Investing: The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Wealth Safely” by Samuel Case. It’s the only other book on investing I’ve read (I bought it on sale on a whim), but it was clear and informative, albeit a little optimistic.
Rating: 3 / 5