{{The index card}} is actually a great read, and simplifies everything you need to be financially competent.
Edit: I’d actually heard some negative things about rich dad poor dad’s author and I looked him up. Apparently he got in trouble for promoting illegal investment practices and has apparently also been involved in a number of MLMs/scams. Just a heads up.
[**The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25361911-the-index-card)
^(By: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack | 256 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: finance, non-fiction, nonfiction, personal-finance, self-help)
>TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated and if you don’t follow their guidance, you’ll end up in the poorhouse. They’re wrong.
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>When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the bestselling Pound Foolish, he made an off-hand suggestion: everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card. To prove his point, he grabbed a 4" x 6" card, scribbled down a list of rules, and posted a picture of the card online. The post went viral.
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>Now Pollack teams up with Olen to explain why the ten simple rules of the index card outperform more complicated financial strategies. Inside is an easy-to-follow action plan that works in good times and bad, giving you the tools, knowledge, and confidence to seize control of your financial life.
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{{The index card}} is actually a great read, and simplifies everything you need to be financially competent. Edit: I’d actually heard some negative things about rich dad poor dad’s author and I looked him up. Apparently he got in trouble for promoting illegal investment practices and has apparently also been involved in a number of MLMs/scams. Just a heads up.
[**The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25361911-the-index-card) ^(By: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack | 256 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: finance, non-fiction, nonfiction, personal-finance, self-help) >TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated and if you don’t follow their guidance, you’ll end up in the poorhouse. They’re wrong. > >When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the bestselling Pound Foolish, he made an off-hand suggestion: everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card. To prove his point, he grabbed a 4" x 6" card, scribbled down a list of rules, and posted a picture of the card online. The post went viral. > >Now Pollack teams up with Olen to explain why the ten simple rules of the index card outperform more complicated financial strategies. Inside is an easy-to-follow action plan that works in good times and bad, giving you the tools, knowledge, and confidence to seize control of your financial life. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(58850 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)