This story appears in the
November 2000 issue of
Startups.
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Did you miss the economic boom of the last decade? Many younger
people did-particularly students, graduates with huge college
loans and entrepreneurs saddled with massive credit card debts.
Even if your business prospered, you may have been too busy to
focus on personal financial planning.
Financial planner Beth Kobliner lays out these and other issues
in the revised Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your
Twenties and Thirties (Fireside Books, $13, www.kobliner.com),
where she helps readers chart a course to wealth. The book has been
expanded to cover Roth IRAs, debit cards, online investing, student
loan deductibility and 100 new financial Web sites. Unlike other
handbooks on personal finance, this one focuses on what young
people need to know about money matters, providing a much-needed
crash course for Gen X and Gen Y.
Paul DeCeglie
is a former staff reporter for Journal of Commerce and
American Banker.