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101 Real Money Questions: The African American Financial Question and Answer Book

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Name: Lisa Brathwaite

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You are a treasure to our community. Thank you for guiding and educating in your special way. I wish you continued blessings and success.

Name: Shelly Service
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Great book. I gave a copy to my sister for Christmas, I thought the New Year is a great time to start making the move to financial freedom.
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Name: Lisa Brathwaite
You are a treasure to our community. Thank you for guiding and educating in your special way. I wish you continued blessings and success.

Over the last few years there has been an influx of financial self-help books
on the market. Most of the books are speaking to people's woes over rising
prices and a shaky economic environment. 101 REAL MONEY QUESTIONS joins a
growing army of these sorts of books, but author Jesse Brown brings freshness
to this arena and approaches a difficult topic in an easy and understandable
manner.

In 101 REAL MONEY QUESTIONS, Brown sets up a dialogue between himself and
countless people with financial concerns and answers some basic and not so
basic questions on creating a sound financial foundation. His focus is
primarily on planning for the future via answering questions about retirement,
IRAs, estate planning as well as a plethora of other related topics. His
directives are written plainly without the overwhelming jargon that usually
accompanies discussions on portfolios and the like.

While the book was written in plain kind English minus the usual jargon, I
found myself a becoming a little frustrated over the absence of certain
information. The book is written from a point of view where the seeker of the
data already has knowledge of financial strategies as well as a financial base
to start from. I was looking for really practical common sense information on
how to get started. He talks about establishing a cash reserve, but how do
you truly do that when you are living from paycheck to paycheck? How do you
pay for insurance when you are living in an economy where rent and basic
living expenses are eating up the limited cash flow that you have?

101 REAL MONEY QUESTIONS answers many questions on building wealth once you
are on relatively stable ground. I think this book would be really helpful to
folks who have started to plan for their future in some way. However, I think
a more comprehensive guide is needed for people who are starting from square
one.

Reviewed by Diane Marbury
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers