You know what’s funny? Your First Financial Steps/Managing Your Money When You’re Just Starting Out, by Nancy Dunnan is funny. I graduated from college in 1995, the same year Your First Financial Steps came out, so in a sense I am precisely the demographic who was supposed to buy this book, at that time.  I

I’m finishing up teaching an undergraduate course on Personal Finance this month, for which I find the assigned textbook totally useless, so I am on a quest to come up with a useful book to recommend for students as well as Bankers Anonymous readers. What’s useful The most impressive strength of Master Math: Business and

I hate personal budgets. Even so, I made my students in my Personal Finance course keep track of their expenses for three weeks.  Not necessarily to torture them, but because they might need it later on. I don’t keep one, so I’m not about to suggest that that everyone else needs to start writing down