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The Index Card

Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

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The Index Card

By: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
Narrated by: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
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TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse. They're wrong. When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the best-selling Pound Foolish, he made an off­hand suggestion: Everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card. To prove his point, he grabbed a 4" x 6" card, scribbled down a list of rules, and posted a picture of the card online. The post went viral. Now Pollack teams up with Olen to explain why the 10 simple rules of the index card outperform more complicated financial strategies. In this audiobook is an easy-to-follow action plan that works in good times and bad, giving you the tools, knowledge, and confidence to seize control of your financial life.

©2016 Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack (P)2016 Gildan Media LLC Personal Finance Investing & Trading Money Investing Retirement Planning

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"The most important financial advice is stunningly simple and fits on an index card. The newbie investor will not find a better guide to personal finance." (Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street)
Practical Advice • Simple Explanations • Essential Information • Straightforward Guidance • Digestible Content

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Great advice and easy to follow along with. (Except the the insurance part but I dont think there is a way to make insurance simple.) Also mentions PDFs, which I believe is on the author's website (?) for reference which is cool to come back to. Great to listen to on the train ride home. Highly recommend for the very useful advice.

Great book! Gets to the point

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I loved it! a lot of great topics for a millennial who knows nothing about finances

Excellent Listen

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Everyone should read this, and you'll be financially better off for having done so. Cheers!

Simple, practical, wise, and indispensable.

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The best overall for to understand about money can be a very good gift to pass others

Fantastic

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this book was easy to follow! I fully intend to put my learnings to work

insightful

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