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Personal Finance Book Suggestions?

Posted by Cliff on from the making-your-money-work-for-you dept.

luc13n asks: "I've seen others making requests for books or reading suggestions. I've been out of college and working professionally in the IT field for two years now. I have some money in the checking account and the savings account and I've started wondering... is there a better way to manage my money? Kinda the old adage 'make your money work fo you'. Does anyone have any good suggested readings to teach a 'young'n' how to 'make his money work for him'?"

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  1. Advice from a Linus Torvalds look-alike by Ashurbanipal · · Score: 2, Funny
    James the Mad Pengiun sez:

    "If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

    With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.

    With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

    If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

    Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle."