Named the best personal finance book on the market by Consumers Union, Jane Bryant Quinn's bestseller Making the Most of Your Money has been completely revised and updated to provide a guide to financial recovery, independence, and success in the new economy. Getting your financial life on track and keeping it there -- nothing is more important to your family and you. This proven, comprehensive guidebook steers you around the risks and helps you make smart and profitable decisions at every stage of your life. Are you single, married, or divorced? A parent with a paycheck or a parent at home? Getting your first job or well along in your career? Helping your kids in college or your parents in their older age? Planning for retirement? Already retired and worried about how to make your money last? You'll find ideas to help you build your financial security here. Jane Bryant Quinn answers more questions more completely than any other personal-finance author on the market today. You'll reach for this book again and again as your life changes and new financial decisions arise. Here are just a few of the important subjects she examines: • Setting priorities during and after a financial setback, and bouncing back • Getting the most out of a bank while avoiding fees • Credit card and debit card secrets that will save you money • Family matters -- talking money before marriage and mediating claims during divorce • Cutting the cost of student debt, and finding schools that will offer big "merit" scholarships to your child • The simplest ways of pulling yourself out of debt • Why it's so important to jump on the automatic-savings bandwagon • Buying a house, selling one, or trying to rent your home when buyers aren't around • Why credit scores are more important than ever, plus tips on keeping yours in the range most attractive to lenders • Investing made easy -- mutual funds that are tailor-made for your future retirement • What every investor needs to know about building wealth • How an "investment policy" helps you make wise decisions in any market • The essential tax-deferred retirement plans, from 401(k)s to Individual Retirement Accounts -- and how to manage them • How to invest in real estate at a bargain price (and how to spot something that looks like a bargain but isn't) • Eleven ways of keeping a steady income while you're retired, even after a stock market crash • Financial planning -- what it means, how you do it, and where to find good planners Page by page, Quinn leads you through the pros and cons of every decision, to help you make the choice that will suit you best. This is the single personal-finance book that no family should be without.

The Market Guys, A. J. Monte and Rick Swope, give you all the tools you’ll need to start applying their key principles for taking charge of your finances. Monte and Swope have taught hundreds of thousands of investors and savers around the world the dos and don’ts of the financial markets and how to gain control of their money. Now they share their strategies with you in this practical, easy-to-use workbook. The Take Charge of Your Money Now! Workbook includes • an action plan for applying the authors’ key strategies to your investments • step-by-step guidance for creating a family budget • advice for selecting a financial advisor • tips for organizing and simplifying your finances • forms, checklists, and worksheets to keep you on track • helpful exercises to help you meet your goals • the 10 common mistakes made in retirement accounts The Take Charge of Your Money Now! Workbook is a must-have guide to protecting your money in these turbulent times.

TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE! The easiest way to lose control of your life is to lose control of your financial life. Joan Perry's spectacularly successful Wall Street career shielded her from that truth--until a failed love affair and a lost nest egg jolted her into rethinking her priorities and then acting on them. Today, through her company, Take Charge Financial!, Perry helps women gain control of their money and their lives by building long-term financial well-being through smart investing. In A Girl Needs Cash, Perry provides women at all stages of life with an unusual program that goes beyond just the basics of personal finance. She breaks through the myths and misconceptions that have kept women financial captives and gives the scoop on growing wealth. Among the important topics discussed: Taking charge: Perry shows you step by step how to review your spending habits and develop new sources of income to create the kind of life you want to live--now and well into your future. Creating the "money machine": Perry shows how to build a personal "money machine" to generate real cash flow with the right investment choices for you--stocks, mutual funds, real estate--and understand the tax choices that affect your cash flow. The time to take financial action is now. From offering new thinking about your attitude toward money to providing the tools for successful investing, A Girl Needs Cash is one of the most important books a woman can read.

Trusted nationwide through their show on public television, seminars, and podcasts, The Market Guys bring inside perspective on how the markets work, how to manage risk, and how to survive turbulent times. Now, The Market Guys share their key strategies for helping readers control their finances. Complete with illustrative anecdotes, this book is a vital resource for these difficult economic times, a do-it-yourself classic by two take-charge guys.

In Take Charge of Your Mind, business entrepreneur and Oxford lecturer Paul Hannam and noted psychologist John Selby present well-researched and easily mastered "cognitive uplift" methods for consciously expanding your mental performance, personal power, and satisfaction at work. This easy-to-master Take Charge process enables you to wake up your mind and truly shine at work. By unleashing the remarkable power of your integrated mental, emotional, and intuitive capacity, you'll gain creative brilliance and inner confidence, successful customer bonding, and a new sense of well-being and fulfillment.

The bestselling mother/daughter coauthors of "The Two-Income Trap" now pen an essential guide to the five simple keys to lasting financial peace.