The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money (3rd Edition) [Paperback]

Christy Heady (Author), Robert K. Heady (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Complete Idiot's Guide | Publication Date: November 1, 2001

Features updated information on investment strategies, managing money on-line, retirement planning, and saving for college. This guide shows that any idiot can master personal finance. Softcover.

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About the Author

Robert K. Heady is a nationally syndicated columnist who writes about personal finance and banking. His trusted Tribune Media Services column, "The People's Money," runs in scores of newspapers.

As founding publisher of Bank Rate Monitor (now bankrate) from which he retired in 1998, Mr. Heady pioneered the surveying of U.S. bank rates and averages in news media, beginning with a rate table in The New York Times in 1983. Eventually his consumer rate tables began reaching more than 50 million US households every week via The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, CNN, and dozens of other major dailies. He is a frequent guest speaker and has appeared many times on CNN's Your Money and Moneyline, Good Morning America, ABC's 20/20 and World News, CBS's Morning News, The Today Show, NBC's Dateline, and PBS's Nightly Business Report, as well as AP, ABC, CBS, NBC and National Public Radio networks.

Christy Heady is an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the best-selling book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money on Wall Street, and co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money in the New Millennium. She has been interviewed as a financial expert on dozens of national television and radio programs including CNBC, NPR, and WGN.

Heady's work has been featured worldwide on CNN's Moneyline program and in publications such as the Christian Science Monitor, Consumers Digest, Your Money Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and the Chicago Tribune. She is a frequent contributor of international business and investing articles to print and online publications. Heady is also the founder of the personal finance Web site, theWhiz, geared to help mainstream America learn basic money management skills.

From AudioFile

The issues of spending, saving, investing, and borrowing money are framed by these perky financial writers as a series of simple decisions we can make every day, instead of abdicating these choices to habit and impulse. Their approach reveals an uncommon grasp of the way most people handle their money. The ideas throughout the audio are superb; the language is practical, challenging, and empowering without overselling or offering enthusiasm in place of practical tools. Grover Gardner is excellent with this text--serious and accessible, confident and curious, he paces his performance to match the way most people hear this type of material. T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; 3rd edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028642457
• ISBN-13: 978-0028642451
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #940,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money, Second Ed, June 3, 2001

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Angela Mule' (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide To Managing Your Money (Paperback)

I love this book! Before reading this book, I wondered how anyone could ever save money in the world today. It has helped me to mangage my money easily. An easy to read book, which I use now as a reference whenever I have a question concerning my personal finances. I finally started a 401K, bought a house, a new car, and I am finally learning to save some money,instead of living paycheck to paycheck.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Complete Idiots Guide to Managing Your Money, May 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide To Managing Your Money (Paperback)

This book did a great job of explaining to the average person how to save, invest and avoid the common financial pitfalls we so often make. It was done with humor and wit, which is a breath of fresh air in this often hard to understand, jargon loaded industry. This book is beneficial to anyone who has thought about developing a financial plan but does not know how or where to begin. It is an easy read, fun and should be a required reading for the masses of people buried in credit card debt! Great job!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful!, May 24, 2001

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Sari Steinberg (Coconut Creek, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide To Managing Your Money (Paperback)

This book gave me invaluable advice regarding my finances. I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone! I have adopted many strategies in the book to save for a rainy day. Thank you, and when are you coming out with another edition?