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Katy McKenna Raymond
in Kansas City, Missouri


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Suze Orman’s New Book, Free!

For the next few days, you can download Suze Orman’s new book for FREE on Oprah’s sitei.

Sometimes, Suze gets a little spooky for my taste, especially when she goes on about money being “attracted” to me, but I’ve gotta tell you: This book is worth downloading, reading, and applying to your specific situation NOW.

Suze admits that she wrote this book fast, and she finished it in November. (It’s also available in print at any bookstore.) But the whole idea is to give us not only a good overview of exactly how the economy got into the mess we find ourselves in, but to also give us up-to-the-minute action plans, detailing what we can do on our own behalf to escape as much personal fallout as possible.

I read through the 200 pages in the past 24 hours, jotting down notes of the precise steps Doug and I have been putting off, but will now attack. You know how a lot of advisors say to keep enough to cover 3-6 months living expenses in an emergency fund? Suze ups the ante to EIGHT months, based on the idea that if you were to lose your job with unemployment rising, it could easily take that long to find another one.

And guess what? Your home equity line of credit can no longer be considered an emergency fund! Who knew?

Furthermore, Suze says we can’t borrow against a 401K to send our kids to college! Say WHAT?????

Dear fallible readers, if you want some solid advice to help you use 2009 to get on a truly solid financial footing, one that you may just commit to stay on for the rest of your lives, get thee over to Oprah’s site and download Suze’s book.

I believe she truly has a heart for the welfare of the people in this country, and I intend to thank her by spreading the news and praying that many, many millions of citizens begin to follow sane principles of personal finance.

If the way out of this crisis is to spend ourselves into oblivion, as some in Washington and on Madison Avenue would have us believe, Suze hasn’t gotten the memo.

Now, go download yourselves a free book, and let me know what you think.

Posted by Katy on 01/09/09 at 04:37 PM
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