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A New York Times columnist shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all. Money management is one of our most practical survival skills - and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order is the book that everyone who has never wanted to read a preachy financial guide has been waiting for. John Schwartz and his wife, Jeanne, are pre-retirement workers of an economic class well above the poverty line - but well below the one percent. Sharing his own alternately harrowing and hilarious stories - from his brush with financial ruin and bankruptcy in his thirties to his short-lived budgeted diet of cafeteria french fries and gravy - John will walk you through his own journey to financial literacy, which he admittedly started a bit late. He covers everything from investments to retirement and insurance to wills (at fifty-eight, he didn't have one!) , medical directives, and more. Whether you're a college grad wanting to start out on the right foot or you're approaching retirement age and still wondering what a pension is, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order will help you become your own best financial adviser.



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John Schwartz

I'm a reporter for The New York Times, and have covered everything from climate change to law to space shuttle launches. I also write a regular humor column about investing for the NYT business section, because I love a challenge. I was born in Texas, went to UT Austin (Hook 'em!) . I've also worked at The Washington Post and Newsweek in a career that has taken me from Moscow to the Mojave desert, from the bootheel of Missouri to Nanjing, China. For stories, I have flown a jetpack, ridden a moon rover prototype, been zapped (safely) with a million volts of electricity and caught drones. I'm married to my college sweetheart, Jeanne Mixon, and we have three kids.



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