Financial Literacy

The bestselling Personal Finance For Dummies has helped countless readers budget their funds successfully, rein in debt, and build a strong foundation for the future. Now, renowned financial counselor Eric Tyson combines his time-tested financial advice along with updates to his strategies that reflect changing market conditions, giving you a better-than-ever guide to taking an honest look at your current financial health and setting realistic goals for the future. 

The housing bubble and the 2008 crash of the U.S. stock market has been the topic of choice for a growing number of authors and pundits. But non-fiction author and financial writer Lewis shines his singularly insightful and frequently humorous light on questions like "Who knew?" and "Who got it right?" While the unprincipled villains who raked in vast amounts of money are certainly present and accounted for, Lewis also finds the heroes of the story, as unlikely as they may be. 

For over thirty years, Burton G. Malkiel's informative, irreverent, and gimmick-free books, "the best investment advice money can buy," have been the first places investors turn to understand the market and to use it to their best advantage. With this concise new guide, Malkiel takes the mystery out of the money game by distilling his reliable plan into ten easy-to-follow rules.

Why do so many otherwise sensible people make foolish financial choices?  Fortunately, many of the most common and costly money blunders we make can be explained -- and corrected -- by the new science of "behavioral economics." Gary Belsky, an award-winning journalist, and Thomas Gilovich, one of the leading experts in this burgeoning new area of research, reveal why people spend, invest, save, borrow, and, most important, waste money.