Everyone's Money Book : Two Pros Tell You Everything You Need to Know about Saving, Investing

A comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to personal finance shows how to devise a personal financial plan, pick winning stocks and mutual funds, invest in bonds and real estate, and much more. 100,000 first printing.

This massive effort to provide every bit of financial information of possible use to all is a daring concept. The authors promise guidance here for each stage of life from age 20 to 70. Admirably clear and complete explanations of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc. and the more sophisticated puts, calls, options--along with home-buying, insurance, college funding advice--constitute a financial education that could take years at business school. Goodman is a Wall Street correspondent for Money magazine and an NBC-TV analyst, Bloch hosts Talking Money on TV and radio. 100,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Fortune Book Club alternate; author tour.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Goodman and Bloch, nationally known experts on personal finance and investment, have teamed up to produce this guide for ordinary people. It covers the basics of everything from preparing a personal financial plan and picking winning stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to managing credit, purchasing a home or car, and financing a college education. There are numerous worksheets to facilitate personal financial planning, and each of the 19 chapters ends with annotated lists of relevant books, pamphlets, periodicals, software, trade associations, government offices, service agencies, etc. This comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable work is complemented by a diskette and a newsletter (sold separately). Anyone can profit from reading this.
- Leonard Grundt, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Goodman is Money magazine's Wall Street correspondent and a regular radio and television financial commentator. Bloch hosts a successful New York City radio program and a USA cable network talk show. They have put together this encyclopedic guide to personal finance and money management in the tradition of Sylvia Porter and Jane Bryant Quinn. In fact, they have appropriated, with no apparent acknowledgment, the title from Quinn's similar 1979 work. Thorough and up-to-date, this book covers every aspect of investing, credit and borrowing, insurance, automobile buying, college expenses, tax planning, retirement, and estate planning likely to be encountered by most Americans in the 1990s. An added feature is the numerous worksheets included, for which an IBM-compatible diskette, which will be sold separately, can be used interactively. David Rouse