Grow Your Money

De: Jonathan D. Pond

Narrado por: Dick Hill

Jonathan D. Pond delivers clear, essential, and easy-to-apply secrets for people ready to get serious about their finances.

People today wrestle with all sorts of financial dilemmas, from paying for their kids' education to making mortgage payments to investing for retirement to putting some money aside to spend now. Pond, the father of three lively daughters and the most successful fund-raiser in PBS history, knows what it's like to juggle myriad financial demands at once. Grow Your Money features his 101 top easy-to-use financial secrets, including details on:

Why you should pay off your credit balances later rather than sooner

Successful stock investing

Boring ways to get rich

Tricks for home buyers that can save thousands of dollars

Creating a real-estate empire - sensibly

And much more

With Grow Your Money, Pond has written a book that even the most investment-phobic people can quickly use and enjoy while straightening out their finances.

©2008 Jonathan Pond (P)2007 Tantor

Great for some, but not for all

My rating of 4/5 is based on the intent of the book. While I do agree with Jeffry, a previous reviewer, in that I did not learn anything.

However, the book is clearly written for those will little or no experience with investing. The book provides tons of good information and little nuggets for thought.

The book presents the information in simple terms and is (I assume) easy for new investors to understand. This is the basis for my 4/5 stars.

If you have no investing experience or if you are an current but not well versed in investing then the book is a great tool for you.

If you are already an intermediate investor the book will probably serve well as a check and balance to help you keep yourself on track.

If you are an expert investor, the book is not for you as you will learn little or nothing.

Who is this book written for?

Not sure who the audience for this book is supposed to be, but with sage wisdom like "just because you like Japanese food does not mean you should open a sushi restaurant", I'm not any more enlightened than when I started the book.