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GET A FINANCIAL LIFE
Personal Finance In Your Twenties And Thirties  
By Beth Kobliner
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
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If you're stressed out by money and have no idea what to do, this is your playbook: the all-new edition of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life, completely rewritten to address the recession. Whether you earn $20,000 or $200,000, this book busts open the system, teaching tricks for becoming master of your own money universe. You'll learn how to:

  • Get out -- and stay out -- of debt
  • Manage your 401(k) in a tanking market
  • Take advantage of the latest tax rules and save a bundle
  • Come up with a down payment and understand the new strategies for landing a mortgage

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    "Kobliner's done it again! Get a Financial Life gives clear and straightforward advice on how to manage your money-even in a financial meltdown. A must-read for 20-and 30-somethings who want to be fiscally smart and financially secure."
    -- Soledad O'Brien, CNN
    "Beth Kobliner's book provides a much-needed and sensible guide."
    -- Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
    "One of the best guides to help young people get a handle on money matters."
    -- Burton G. Malkiel, Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics, Princeton University; author, A Random Walk Down Wall Street
    "Stop worrying and start reading Beth Kobliner's Get a Financial Life, the best book to help you understand your money in the toughest financial market since the Great Depression."
    -- Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money
    "A highly readable and substantial guide to the grown-up worlds of money and business."
    -- The New York Times
    "Get A Financial Life gives you the essential information you need to get your finances in order as you're starting your career. The rest is up to you. Educate yourself, get motivated, and get your finances in shape now by reading this book."
    -- Sharon Epperson, CNBC Personal Finance Correspondent and author of The Big Payoff
    "Smart, thorough-a tremendously useful guide to all the essentials of sound personal finance."
    -- Eric Gelman, Fortune
    "A daring book....A life's worth of smart financial advice."
    -- Newsweek
    "With numerous insights, this fine book demonstrates that, through discipline and enterprise, anyone can win their financial independence."
    -- Tom Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool
    "Beth Kobliner is telling you it's time to smell the latte. In Get a Financial Life, Kobliner serves a rich, smooth brew of common sense on everything from paying off your student loan to saving for (gasp) your own kid's future. The advice is thoughtful, precise, and up-to-date. But the simple, step-by-step explanations make getting a financial life easier than steaming the perfect froth on a cappuccino."
    -- Saul Hansell, The New York Times
    "Shaw said youth is wasted on the young. I suspect the Kobliner financial wisdoms will work out well at all our ages."
    -- Paul A. Samuelson, Institute Professor Emeritus, MIT, Nobel Laureate in Economics
    "An eminently digestible resource suited to the attention span of the MTV Generation. Buying this book right now is probably one of the best -- and cheapest -- investments."
    -- Time Out New York
    "Beth Kobliner has written one of the best personal finance books currently available. Get a Financial Life is 'must' reading for young adults -- and has a lot of solid information for the 40-and-over crowd as well."
    -- The Midwest Book Review
    "If getting a financial life is terrifying, Kobliner eases readers into it gently.... Financial books generally aren't light reading, but this one is easily digestible."
    -- Kiplinger's
    Investment primer charts path for beginners
    USA Today, April 7, 2009
    ...Sometimes the very best books are the simplest. And that's the beauty of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in your Twenties and Thirties. It offers the fundamental ABCs of how to manage your money. Originally penned more than a decade ...