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Summary: Highly over-rated book
Review: The few 4* and 5* reviews are from people who basically relate to Quinn because of her association with Newsweek. Keep in mind that there is no correlation between a writer who only writes about money and her knowledge of accurate, comphrehensive and effective money techniques. If Quinn is so great, where are all of the success stories?? Hmmm????
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Summary: This book isn't that bad!
Review: No doubt, Making the Most of Your Money is now nearly 7 years old and a lot of the material is outdated. But at least Quinn does a good job on showing you how to reduce debt---so did my mother.While this book isn't "that bad", I would give it a pass. Suggest The 10 Day Financial Breakthrough by James L. Paris or 9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman for some good financial advice and both of those books will still cost you less than Quinn's.There. I've saved you some money while showing you a way to get better advice. (MUCH BETTER ADVICE)
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Summary: This is a Mistitled book...
Review: Making the Most of Your Money with the advice n this? Hardly! Also, the subtitle; Revised and Updated for the 21st Century is amusing as this book was released in 1997 so probably written back in 1996. Are we to assume that Quinn is a fortune teller too?
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Summary: Personal finance IS NOT a do it yourself project...
Review: I am both amused and concerned by the number of reviews on this book, giving it 5 stars and saying you should avoid your financial advisor, agent etc.When I see comments like this, I am reminded of the commercial on TV showing unskilled people trying to "do it on their own", choping down trees, seting up satellite dishes etc. ony with dismal results. On TV, it's funny. In real life with YOUR real money, it's not so funny.I also find it interesting on the numer of people (or is that really just 1 person repeatly posting??) who refer to Quinn as a "financial expert"! Sorry to rain on your parade, but everything I have ever read about Quinn indicates that she is a journalist for sure, but never have I seen CFP, CLU, CPA etc after her name.I suppose if Quinn wrote a book about health or medical problems you would assume she is a "Medical/Health expert" too huh?This book might make decent supplementary reading to other books but should never be used without professional help, nor should any financial book for that matter.
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Summary: I disagree with the "reviewer" from "Silicon Valley"
Review: After carefully reading that review, I can't help but wonder if that person has a reading problem or comprehending what she reads.The fact is, that as anyone who has read this book knows, Quinn does recommend Cash Value Life Insurance. She also recommends converting from Term to Cash Value and she also suggests Credit Life Insurance as well.So I have to agree with the other reviewers that Quinn is attempting to push cash value life insurance and other expensive unnecessary insurance products either deliberately or becuae she doesn't know any better.In any event, bad advice.
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Summary: If you buy just 1 financial book....
Review: Make sure that it's not this one. Bad advice prevails throughout this huge but mostly worthless book. I recomend Personal Finance for Dummies by Eric Tyson or Courage To Be Rich by Suze Orman in place of this.The best use of this book would be as a door stop.
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Summary: Why so defensive for Quinn?
Review: I have read quite a few reviews on other books where both the books and their authors have taken a bashing, but never have I seen so many wimpy, excuse filled posts trying to defend an obviously unpopular book as I have seen with Makin the Most of Your Money and for Jane Bryant Qunn! I guess this explains just what kind of audience Quinn attracts doesn't it?
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Summary: What a crock!
Review: I have read quite a few books on personal finance and this one is the absolute worst. Quinn suggests that you have your insurance premiums raised and your deductibles lowered? This is exactly what your insurance agent wants and the exact opposite of what you need to do.Quinn may have meant well, but her advice falls far short of what consumers really need to succeed in the 21st century.
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Summary: Big clunker
Review: You would think that at 1,000 pages this huge book would have some worthwhile information. Far from it!There are many better choices available such as John Commuta, Jim Paris, J.W. Hicks and Ric Edelmen to mention just a few.At best, this book makes for a very expensive door stop. At worst, could cost you a bundle due to ineffective strategies.
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Summary: Negative reviews from agents, planners, and other leeches
Review: This book and the previous edition have been tremendously valuable to me. With the help of the original edition over the past decade, I have just retired at age 53. Now using the current edition to tweak my financial setup -- the advice on no-load funds saved me a lot. I ignored her advice on Treasury Mutual Funds and just lost $8K in two months because I believed the pitch from the mutual fund instead of her advice to just buy treasuries directly from the government. Today I happened across these reviews and was shocked. Then I got it. The negative reviews are from insurance agents, financial planners, stock salesmen, and other unnecessary leeches. The strange thing is that the reviews keep claiming she says things that are not in the book. For example: 1. She does NOT recommend cash value over term insurance: "You get far more coverage for your money than you do with cash-value insurance, so it's the right kind of policy for anyone with an average income and family responsibilities." p. 284 2. She does NOT recommend credit-life insurance. "...skip these high-priced bits of credit insurance and buy more term insurance instead." p. 294 3. She does NOT recommend against buying Teasuries direct from the government. "Every penny you earn in yield is yours to keep because you pay no fees or commissions on securities held to maturity." p. 203 etc. etc. She's eliminating the scammers and middlemen who make money by interposing themselves (and their commissions) in your simple transactions and by churning your financial activities. My only correction to the book is that the role of credit unions has grown in the past few years. Many people qualify to join multiple credit unions based on where they live. You are no longer limited to the credit union where you work. Services and rates vary quite a bit the between FICA-insured credit unions in one area. If you are an adventurous investor and want to be able to talk about your investments at parties, she is not for you. Why the violent flaming reviews? "These rules proscribe some of Wall Street's most popular investments. They're 'popular' not because you've been dying to own them but because they all carry higher sales commissions than surer, simpler investments do." p. 789
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