The Money Book for the Young Fabulous & Broke

About this book

The Money Book for the Young Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Ormans answer to a generations cry for help. Theyre called "Generation Debt" and "Generation Broke" by the media people in their twenties and thirties who graduate college with a mountain of student loan debt and are stuck with one of the weakest job markets in recent history. The goals of their parents generation buy a house support a family send kids to college retire in style seem absurdly depressingly out of reach. They live off their credit cards may or may not have health insurance and come up so far short at the end of the month that the idea of saving money is a joke. This generation has it tough without a doubt but theyre also painfully aware of the urgent need to take matters into their own hands. The Money Book was written to address the specific financial reality that faces young people today and offers a set of real not impossible solutions to the problems at hand and the problems ahead. Concisely pragmatically and without a whiff of condescension Suze Orman tells her young fabulous & broke readers precisely what actions to take and why. Throughout these pages there are icons that direct readers to a special YF&B domain on Suzes website that offers more specialized information forms and interactive tools that further customize the information in the book. Her advice at times bucks conventional wisdom (did she just say use your credit card?) and may even seem counter-intuitive (pay into a retirement fund even though your credit card debt is killing you?) but its her honesty understanding and uncanny ability to anticipate the needs of her readers that has made her the most trusted financial expert of her day. Over the course of ten chapters that can be consulted methodically step-by-step or on a strictly need-to-know basis Suze takes the reader past broke to a secure place where theyll never have to worry about revisiting broke again. And she begins the journey with a bit of overwhelmingly good news (yes there really is good news): Young people have the greatest asset of all on their side time.