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Personal Finance for Dummies Paperback - 2003 - 4th Edition

by Eric Tyson

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Now updated-the proven guide to taking control of your finances The bestselling Personal Finance For Dummies has helped countless readers budget their funds successfully, rein in debt, and build a strong foundation for the future. Now, renowned financial counselor Eric Tyson combines his time-tested financial advice along with updates to his strategies that reflect changing market conditions, giving you a better-than-ever guide to taking an honest look at your current financial health and setting realistic goals for the future. Inside, you'll find techniques for tracking expenditures, reducing spending, and getting out from under the burden of high-interest debt. Tyson explains the basics of investing in plain English, as well as risks, returns, investment options, and popular investment strategies. He also covers ways to save for college and special events, tame your taxes, and financially survive the twists and turns that life delivers. . The bestselling, tried-and-true guide to taking control of finances, now updated to cover current market conditions Provides concrete, actionable advice for anyone facing great economic hardship Helps you avoid or get out of debt and budget funds more successfully Eric Tyson, MBA, is a nationally recognized personal finance counselor and the author of numerous For Dummies titles, including Home Buying For Dummies, Investing For Dummies, and Mutual Funds For Dummies, among others There's no need to stress over an uncertain economy-just read Personal Finance For Dummies and protect your financial future!

From the publisher

Covers the financial impact of the recent tax cuts

"Detailed, action-oriented advice . . . A standout personal finance primer."
--Kristin Davis, Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Do you need help managing your financial priorities? Relax! This friendly guide, now updated to include changes to the tax code, gives you just the information you need to take control of your finances, buy the right insurance coverage, and weather economic downturns.

Praise for Personal Finance For Dummies

." . . provides tremendous insight and guidance into the world of investing and other money issues."
-PBS Nightly Business Report

"Tyson doesn't tell you what to do or consider doing without explaining the hows and whys - and the booby traps to avoid - in plain English."
-Chicago Tribune

"Smart advice . . . . Rewards your candor with advice and comfort."
-Newsweek

First line

We're barely acquainted, but I do know that you're not dumb.

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  • Title Personal Finance for Dummies
  • Author Eric Tyson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 4th
  • Edition 4
  • Pages 454
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York
  • Date July 1, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780764525902 / 0764525905
  • Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 7.38 x 1.05 in (23.32 x 18.75 x 2.67 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003105627
  • Dewey Decimal Code 332.024

About the author

After toiling away for a number of years as a management consultant to Fortune 500 financial-service firms, Eric Tyson He took his inside knowledge of the banking, investment, and insurance industries and committed himself to making personal financial management accessible to us all. Today, Eric is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling personal finance book author, syndicated columnist, and speaker. He has worked with and taught people from all financial situations, so he knows the financial concerns and questions of real folks just like you. Despite being handicapped by an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Economics and Biology from Yale University, Eric remains a master at "keeping it simple."

An accomplished personal finance writer, his "Investor's Guide" syndicated column, distributed by King Features, is read by millions nationally, and he was an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. He is the author of five national best-selling financial books in the ...For Dummies series on personal finance, investing, mutual funds, home buying (co-author), and taxes (co-author). Personal Finance for Dummies was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Business Book of the Year.

He is also the author of Mind Over Money: Your Path to Wealth and Happiness which takes a holistic and thought provoking view of how we deal with money and can extinguish problematic financial habits and hone the best ones.

Eric's work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of local and national publications including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Parenting, Money, Family Money, Bottom Line/Personal, and on NBC'S Today Show, ABC, CNBC, PBS Nightly Business Report, CNN, and FOX-TV, and on CBS national radio, NPR's MarketPlace Money, Bloomberg Business Radio, and Business Radio Network.

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