Every year, millions of college students graduate with limited financial knowledge. According to the Council for Economic Education, students In the United States are required to take a high school course in personal finance as a graduation requirement in only 17 states. Out of the nearly 3.7 million college graduates of the 2013-2014 school year, […]
Book Review: Generation Earn
Those of us in our twenties have been called a lot of things by our elders, but never have we been referred to as “Generation Earn”. Kimberly Palmer, senior editor at US News & World Report and author of the Alpha Consumer column, decided she was fed up with the negative labels associated with young […]
Book Review: The Skinny On Series
Remember when Cliff Notes were the lifeline to all those classics you had to read in school? It was a novel idea – taking complex topics, like literature, and breaking it down into quick and easy to understand guides. Then emerged the “Dummies” series whose tagline is “Making Everything Easier” and covered how-to guides from […]
Interview: What’s it all about? More than Money! (Part II)
Continued from Part I… Well readers. Hope you enjoyed the first segment of this interview. Saly was gracious enough to really put some thought and time into these responses. It’s great how ready and willing these authors are willing to dive into their books – you don’t get this level of detail from Oprah’s book […]