**The New York Times bestselling financial guide aimed squarely at
Generation Debt--and their parents--from the country's most trusted and
dynamic source on money matters.
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke** is financial expert
Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. They're 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 they're also painfully aware of the urgent
need to take matters into their own hands.
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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 Suze's 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 it's 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 they'll 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.
