num_pages: 256
description: TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated and if you dont follow their guidance youll end up in the poorhouse. Theyre 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.
language: English
title: The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated
publisher: Portfolio