Index Card

<p><b>The newbie investor will not find a better guide to personal finance. <br><b>--Burton Malkiel </b>author of <b><i>A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET </i></b> </b> <p/>TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated and if you don't follow their guidance you'll end up in the poorhouse. <p/>They're wrong. <p/>When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the bestselling <i>Pound Foolish</i> he made an off­hand suggestion: everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card. To prove his point he grabbed a 4 x 6 card scribbled down a list of rules and posted a picture of the card online. The post went viral. <p/>Now Pollack teams up with Olen to explain why the ten simple rules of the index card outperform more complicated financial strategies. Inside is an easy-to-follow action plan that works in good times and bad giving you the tools knowledge and confidence to seize control of your financial life.</p>