"And that might be generous, " says Mr. Dungan, who is also co-author of a personal-finance textbook.
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Only three states mandate personal-finance courses, though 18 others require that some instruction be included in other classes.
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Although these numbers fly in the face of conventional personal-finance wisdom, Prof.
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But there are many investments based on the advice of personal-finance pros that have succeeded, yet the book deliberately ignored such stories.
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"The only way to establish intimacy is to be willing to open up about yourself, " says David Bakke, 46, an editor at a personal-finance website.
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Exiting the personal-finance business, Ornstein began Act Two of his life.
Personal-finance magazines based on the American model, such as France's Investir and Germany's Wertpapier, are already providing the industry with a growing pool of informed and interested investors.
And having a predictable amount to pay each month makes you less likely to fall behind or default on utility bills, says Jessica Patel, a personal-finance analyst at Bankrate.com.
Continental Europe's underdeveloped personal-finance market should be another target.
In America, Britain and even in parts of continental Europe, the bull market has created a new, confident class of investors in shares and mutual funds who scour the booming personal-finance press for investment ideas.
The wealth manager gives them a personal-finance guidebook, introduces them to the firm's staff and explains that a Roth IRA "is one of the few IRS-sponsored techniques where they can pay tax on their money and not ever have to again, " he says.
When asked about six personal-finance concepts, fewer than 20% of teachers and teachers-in-training said they felt "very competent" to teach those topics, and one of the areas they reported feeling least competent about was saving and investing, according to a 2009 survey of 1, 200 K-12 teachers and prospective teachers published by the National Endowment for Financial Education.
Writing in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne, Mr. Taleb divides the world into those who "get it" and everyone else, a world partitioned into heroes (Popper, Hayek, Yogi Berra), those on notice (Harold Bloom, necktie wearers, personal-finance advisers) and entities that are dead to him (the bell curve, newspapers, the Nobel Prize in Economics).
Nasar weaves people, places, politics, banking, social injustice, war, depression, recession, personal relations, personalities, sex, anti-Semitism, self-doubt, physical impairment, espionage, poverty, personal finance, self-delusion, self-interest, and much more in a book that educates as thoroughly and gracefully as it entertains.
Web-based, personal finance management services, similar in purpose to Quicken and Quickbooks software, are increasingly adding travel-related features to their offerings.
Bubble-era personal finance Guru of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame puts company into bankruptcy.
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Another colleague, Rick Kahler, author and co-author of several books including one of my all-time personal finance favorites, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, insists every financial advisor needs his or her own financial advisor.
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Promisingly, the Chinese bank regulator announced draft rules in May to allow domestic and foreign institutions to set up consumer-finance firms to offer personal loans for consumer-goods purchases.
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Sullivan is enormously well-versed in personal finance, which he writes about for the New York Times.
As a 40-something woman who co-authored two personal finance books for women, those questions hit me smack in the gut.
There are two reasons for being a do-it-yourselfer in personal finance.
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The personal-loans market may also provide a launch-pad for other retail-finance businesses that are underdeveloped in Japan, such as credit cards and home-equity loans.
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Jake Gibson, co-founder of NerdWallet, a personal finance site that ranks credit card perks and bank rates, stresses that maximizing rewards can earn you a serious percentage back that could go a long way towards your savings, but it depends on your spending habits.
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