Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere: Don't Be One Of Them

Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere: Don't Be One Of Them

by Jason Kelly
Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere: Don't Be One Of Them

Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere: Don't Be One Of Them

by Jason Kelly

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Overview

A hard-hitting look at achieving financial freedom by avoiding excessive borrowing and spending

If you don't actively resist America's culture of debt, you'll end up precisely where the government, banks, and big business want you to be: indentured servitude. The mistakes people make with their money are basic, and avoidable, and unless you understand what they are, you're probably going to repeat them. What you need is someone who can shed light on the obstacles we face and show you how to avoid getting tripped up by them.

Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere shows how society is rigged to take as much of your wealth as possible, and simple ways you can resist. It investigates, explains, and offers advice for all those who have fallen into debt, taken a second mortgage, been trapped by credit cards, or found themselves unable to get ahead.

  • Discusses what you can do to stop the destructive cycle of borrowing and spending
  • Illustrates the four major tenets of getting money right
  • Highlights how to avoid the many ways that government, banks, and big business try to trap you with debt

To secure your financial future, you must break the dangerous cycle of borrowing and spending, and learn how to guard your wealth against corporate ploys. Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere leads you down the only proven path to financial freedom.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470579756
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 06/08/2010
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jason Kelly is editor of The Kelly Letter?'and author of eight books, including the bestseller The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing. He graduated in 1993 from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He currently lives in Sano, Japan, north of Tokyo. Find his latest ideas and join his free e-mail list at www.jasonkelly.com.

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Table of Contents

Introduction Life as a Sucker 1

Chapter 1 The First Rule of Finance 7

Chapter 2 Credit, Cars, and Castles 13

Chapter 3 Toxic FSP in the Alphabet of Idiocy 27

Chapter 4 The Society You’re Up Against 47

Chapter 5 Government of the Corporations, by the Corporations, for the Corporations 63

Chapter 6 How Money Is Power 89

Chapter 7 Financial Freedom 147

Chapter 8 Guarantee Your Own Well-Being 159

Chapter 9 On the Front Lines of Freedom 169

Conclusion In Yourself You Trust 185

Appendix A Smart Scenarios 189

Appendix B Getting Out of Debt 191

Appendix C Keep Current 195

Notes 197

Acknowledgments 201

About the Author 203

Index 205

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