Making the Most of Your Money

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Summary: Looking for some great financial advice?
Review: If so, then keep looking. I'de recocommend Talking Money or The Savage Truth on Money, both of which are more current and better than this tome.

Quinn's book is huge, but still lacking in critical information. Most is just generic, common sense much, like how to buy a house is bad advice.

You can skip this one.

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Summary: Why pay for outdated advice? What a waste of paper!
Review: This is now nearly 7 years old and it wasn't all that great when it was released.

Most of the information is outdated and useless. The pension information is very misleading. Insurance information will leave you insurance rich but cash poor due to too much insurance.

Quinn's advice doesn't work. Why do you suppose her newspaper column was cancelled?

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Summary: Perplexed indeed!
Review: I am perplexed too at the fanfare for this very old and outdated book.

It's funny too how Quinn refers to the recent (ha, ha) Roth IRA!

I picked up a copy Making the Most of Your Money at a used books store for under a buck and felt cheated.

It's your money

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Summary: No substance
Review: This book is just a compendium of outdated dogma circa 1992.

Quinn seems to enjoy writing and that obviously is her forte, but she is obviously lacking in knowledge on personal finance.

I recommend the Dolans book. Everybodies Money Book by Goodman or Talking Money which is excellent and current.

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Summary: Great guide for the gullible
Review: This is unquestionably the worst financial book I have ever read. The insurance information reads like a life insurance salesmans manual. Investment advice will cause you to lose money and let's not forget that this time is now nearly 8 years old.Old..old...old.Buy a newer and better book. Too many good books exist to waste your time and money witht this junk.

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Summary: Retitled book - You can skip this one
Review: This is just another version of Everyone's Money Book released by Quinn back in 1991. Same book - more fluff.Do not confuse this title with an ecxellent book written by Goodman with the same title.

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Summary: Check it out at the library
Review: This book is now over 6 years old with outdated information.

Insurance advice, as already stated by so many unhappy reviewers
is bad advice.

Investment advice is equally bad.

Mortgage info? Forget it!

Buy the Dolans new book for better, accurate information.

If you really want to read this book, then check it out at the library for free and then read something else quickly to overlap the bad advice permeated by Quinn.

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Summary: Skip this one - it's worse than bad
Review: It has been said that during the last bull market, a blindfolded monkey shooting darts at a dart board and making selections based on where the darts landed could have made a fortune.Conversely, I know people who lost a lot of money following Quinn's"safe", "expert" advice.So if it comes down to choosing advice from Quinn or a blinfolded monek, go with the moneky. Your chances are better!

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Summary: Horribly bad advice - ignore her sponors (5* reviewers)
Review: This book is loaded with bad advice. I am not surprised to see all of the one star reviews, only surprised that it took this long.Making the Most of Your money is loaded with bad advice. Not only is Quinn's equity investing advice way off, so is her advice on how to invest in bonds. At best you would have lost less money with her bond strategies than by following her equity strategies, but whow ants to lose money??I caught on to Quinn several years ago when she ran a supposed expose on a "Get Rich Quick Guru" hyping five thousnd dollar seminars. I agreed with Quinn on concept and I too am leary about these seminar promoters but was appalled when I saw that she was recommending a competitor to this guru and suggested sending a hundred dollars for two cassette tapes that were probably worth about a buck. Abuse of power! No wonder her newspaper colum was cancelled and her book sales have slipped so badly. I believe that the five star reviews are from her sponsors and personally have not met anyone who is financially smart who recommends this book.I do see a lot of rewiewers who do not recommend this book, nor do I.

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Summary: Don't just take my word for it (or theirs)
Review: This book was highly recommended to me, and I have to say, it goes above and beyond my expectations. I consider this book to be one of the best purchases I have ever made. It covers all the basics, everything you ever wanted to know about your personal finances is in there.
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All I can say to the potential buyer is that you will be far better informed if you look to other sources for information as well. I did ... [An] article that I personally know of was in Martha Stewart Living (don't remember the issue, although it was within the last year), called "A Basic Financial Library." For what it's worth, it says, "If you're going to own just one book about personal finance, this should be it." Preview the book, too - check it out from the library. Anyhow, just make sure you look beyond what is written here, you'll be so glad you did.

By the way, I have read the chapter on life insurance - those who say she is for cash value insurance and against term insurance are misguided (or trying to misguide you). I also own books by Suze Orman, and honestly, they take the same position on term life insurance.