Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties By Beth Kobliner

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Taking Stock of Your Financial Life – Covers goal setting, tracking your spending, and financial organization

Dealing with Debt – Credit cards, student loans, car loans, credit scores, identity theft, and bankruptcy are covered here 

Basic Banking – How to find a good bank, and whether to do joint or separate accounts 

All You Really Need To Know About Investing – Pointers for new investors, and good explanations of all the basic financial instruments (money market funds, stocks, bonds). Also covers financial advisors 

Living the Good Life in 2070 – Saving for retirement, including overviews of 401ks, IRA’s and options for the self-employed 

Oh, Give Me a Home – Buying vs. renting, qualifying/shopping for a mortgage, and the costs of home ownership 

Insurance: What You Need and What You Don’t – An overview of all the key types of insurance (health, car, disability, home, life, and types you don’t need 

How to Make Your Life Less Taxing – Tax basics, tax rates, tax filing, self-employed tax options 

Making the Most of Military Benefits – Educational benefits, financial assistance with your home, paying off debt, family support, and so on

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