How to Ruin Your Financial Life

How to Ruin Your Financial Life
by Ben Stein

How to Ruin Your Financial Life
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Author: Ben Stein
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-03-01
ISBN: 1401902413
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Hay House

Summary of How to Ruin Your Financial Life

Anyone can write a book about how to get rich. The bookstores are full of them. They rarely work, though, which isn?t surprising since the people who write them rarely know much about money.

But it takes Ben Stein, economist, finance expert for Barron?s, commentator on finance for Fox News, and (fairly) successful investor to write a book called How to Ruin Your Financial Life. Written with the same tongue-in-cheek cheekiness as his bestselling How to Ruin Your Life, this book is a humorous road map showing you how to make something useful of the money that comes in and out of your life. Follow the rules?in reverse gear?and you?re bound to be a lot better off than you are now. Follow the rules as they?re written?and you?re highly likely to wind up in bankruptcy court?as millions do every decade.

Here are some of the rules, just to whet your appetite: Collect as Many Credit Cards as You Can and Use Them Frequently; Compete with Your Friends to See Who Can Own the Most Expensive and High-Status Possessions; Know in Your Gut That Only Suckers Work Hard for Money and That Smarties Like You Only Have to Find an Angle; Remember That Retirement Is a L-ooo-nnn-g Way Off, and Don?t Even Think about It Right Now; Bear in Mind That Only "Little People" Pay Their Bills or Taxes; Don?t Bother to Own Your Own Home Because Home Ownership Is a Hassle...and many more.

This book is a laugh-out-loud way to educate yourself, your children, and your friends about how money really works...and a way to smile while you?re straightening out that mess you call your financial life.

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