Overview

For previous generations, living within your means was a simple formula. Now, with the staggering rise in health-care, medical, and housing costs, millions of people find themselves skating from paycheck to paycheck with no idea how to move forward. As the most read personal finance columnist on the Internet, Liz Weston has heard the questions and has the answers. Her 10 Commandments of Money will help listeners avoid critical mistakes, survive the bad times, and thrive in the good ones. Just a few of Weston's invaluable pointers include how to: -Balance Your Budget -Pay Down Toxic Debt -Get the Right Mortgage -Pay for College -Save for Retirement -Maximize Your Financial Flexibility Liz Weston's goal is to provide the practical guide to the brave new world of money. What Sylvia Porter's Money Book was to the 1970s, The 10 Commandments of Money will be for the 2010s.

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"""A wonderful basic personal finance book."" -- ""New York Times"" ""Each chapter is a holy commandment of how to live a good financial life...Clear a space on your bookshelf--one that's easy to reach."" -- ""USA Today"" ""Financial columnist Weston provides a workable happy medium between fear and fecklessness...Loaded with tips and ideas and illustrated with plenty of examples, this book hits all the major themes for total financial literacy in a conversational, digestible tone...A godsend for the financially befuddled, bewildered, or just plain anxious."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Heather Henderson's pleasing performance is a steady presence in this up-to-date guide to managing money. Her reassuring voice strikes the right balance between sounding perky enough to give the reading a personality and mature enough to make listeners respect the information and advice. Her delivery is a soothing vehicle for unfolding the author's wisdom...Weston is a detail-oriented, broadly experienced financial journalist. But she writes in a person-to-person manner that, with the help of Henderson's friendly reading, will speak to listeners' deeper feelings and shake up their most stubborn financial habits."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""This book is money manna from heaven, and Liz Weston is the financial sage of our times. She's revised the tired truths about finances and offers up smart, timely advice on paying off debt, investing for retirement, setting up a real-world budget for years to come, and more. I'd follow her anywhere!"" -- ""Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life"""

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"Liz Weston is the most read personal finance columnist on the Internet, according to Nielsen NetRatings. She writes a twice-weekly columns for MSN Money and is also the author of the question-and-answer column ""Money Talk,"" which appears in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout the country. She has appeared on Dr. Phil and Today and is a regular commentator on public radio's Marketplace Money. She lives in Los Angeles. Heather Henderson is a voice talent, theater critic, and dramaturg. In addition to narrating audiobooks, she has voiced hundreds of commercial and educational projects, and her arts reviews and poems have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. She holds MFA and DFA degrees from the Yale School of Drama. She lives in Oregon."

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