Money Smart: How to Spend, Save, Eliminate Debt, and Achieve Financial Freedom

With a simple and accessible style, Money Smart delivers a better approach to personal money management. Author Ted Hunter shows readers that they are capable of managing their money better than anyone else—including financial professionals. He first exposes the destructive myths and system-wide incompetence that have dominated money management advice for decades. Hunter then empowers readers by providing the information they need to make their own decisions.

Money Smart offers an education in financial topics that will help readers achieve financial freedom, including planning spending and saving, buying and selling a home or car, paying for an education, recognizing the importance of market cycles, and understanding the various investment and insurance options. Presenting easy-to-use tools and a clear list of rules to follow, Money Smart teaches readers to make solid, educated decisions so they can effectively manage their money.

Using a direct approach and personal anecdotes to demonstrate time-tested advice, Hunter reveals a comprehensive approach to personal money management. Readers will:

• receive tools for getting out of debt—now;
• learn to spend smart, save more, and take charge of their money; and
• discover how to balance enjoying life now with planning for the future, and achieve the ultimate goal—financial freedom.

Offering a brief but thorough education in financial topics, Money Smart is America’s manual for personal management.