Opinion | Elizabeth Warren wrote a book of personal finance advice. How does it hold up?

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Opinion: Elizabeth Warren wrote a book of personal finance advice. How does it hold up?

Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at her campaign headquarters in Dorchester. By Helaine Olen Helaine Olen Opinion writer focusing on politics, economics and American life Bio Follow Opinion writer March 1 at 7:00 AM As someone who has covered the personal finance industry for years, I like to say there are three schools of personal finance and investment writing. The first suggests that if we spend our money responsibly, we can slowly and surely grow our security and nest eggs.

Like all personal finance books, “All Your Worth” has a hook, one that offers “a lifetime of riches,” in this case an approach that tells readers to put “your money in balance,” by dividing it into three buckets: needs, wants and savings. While acknowledging that “you can’t count on good old-fashioned hard work the way your parents did,” it also tells them “you have to learn the new rules” of money.

On some other issues, Warren was prescient. Wells Fargo? She was already flagging it for absurdly overcharging unwitting consumers seeking to refinance their mortgages. At a time when respected personal finance gurus and publications would tell people it was okay to buy homes with little or no money down, she cautioned that the home foreclosure rate had tripled over the past 25 years and “it is happening today in your town.

 

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ChrisCuomo Don't trust her.

ChrisCuomo That’s too scary for me

ChrisCuomo

Chapter 1: 'Claim youre Native American and then get a Harvard professorship teaching a single class for $350,000 a year'

ChrisCuomo Still not as good as her cookbook

She also wrote a book about woman entering the work place was the worse for the family unit!

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If its like her congressional budget than I expert her readers to declare bankruptcy in: 3... 2... 1... libertarian

Her views of Socialism have never worked

Is there a chapter on culturally appropriating an indigenous populace for the purpose of financial gain?

Not a doubt in my mind... It's a page turner.

Laughable human being.

Because she's a native

In ADDITION to Americans now taking MORE money home with EACH Paycheck.

Better than trump’s..

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probably just as well as Pocahontas' interactions with early English settlers...

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