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E-books & print books on personal finance
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Gallery: Latest personal finance titles
The Financial Rules for New College Graduates
Early chapters address the role of interest rates, compound interest, and discounted cashflows, while the remaining chapters explore each of the most consequential personal finance choices that recent graduates will make in the first ten years of their career.
Personal Finance with Python: Using pandas, Requests, and Recurrent
Deal with data, build up financial formulas in code from scratch, and evaluate and think about money in your day-to-day life. This book is about Python and personal finance and how you can effectively mix the two together.
Essential Personal Finance
Aguide to all the key areas of personal finance: budgeting, managing debt, savings and investments, insurance, securing a home and laying the foundations for retirement.
Financial Nutrition for Young Women
Addresses the two critical levels that are necessary to truly eradicate women's economic inequality: what to teach girls and what women need to learn.
This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order
A New York Times correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all.
Plan Your Financial Future
Covering all the financial bases you can reasonably expect to confront in your lifetime, such as insurance, investing, income tax planning, Social Security, Medicare, and more.
Financial Literacy Education
This book shows what you can do to improve financial literacy awareness and education. Divided into three parts, the book covers financial literacy education for grades K-12, college, and post-college.
Common Sense Finance
This book addresses the multitude of financial issues faced by individuals, entrepreneurs, and small business owners.
The Thriving Artist
Provides unique strategies for integrating financial awareness and planning into your life as an artist, and how that can help to provide a better sense of financial security.
Recommended websites about personal finance
- Ask CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)This U.S. government agency provides impartial answers to common financial questions.
- Your Money: The New York TimesThis column focuses on anything and everything that hits you in the wallet.
- MyMoney.govMaintained by the Congressionally chartered Federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission.
- Investor.govInvestor basics, an introduction to the markets, and a guide to researching investments from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- 360 Degrees of Financial LiteracyOffers finance information and tools for different life stages and personal situations. Created by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
- The Color of Money: Washington PostMichelle Singletary writes this nationally syndicated personal finance column, which appears in The Washington Post on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Should I trust this website?
Tips and tricks for evaluating the credibility of news and other websites.
- Evaluating Web PagesFrom U.C. Berkeley Library - specific techniques you can use to determine web site quality.
- Purdue OWL: Evaluating Sources - Where to BeginPurdue's extensive Online Writing Center includes information on different things to look for when evaluating print and web sources.
- Evaluating Sources for Credibility VideoVideo from North Carolina State University that walks through how to evaluate an article for credibility.
Other helpful guides from JMU Libraries
- Madison Research Essentials ToolkitA suite of videos designed to prepare students for JMU’s graduation requirement, the Madison Research Essentials Skills Test (MREST).