Wicomico Library Book Review Monthly

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Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money by Dave Ramsey & Rachel Cruze (332.024 RAM)

Smart Money Smart Kids, written by father-daughter team Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze, provides parents with effective techniques for teaching their kids money responsibility from toddler age and on through college. Ramsey is a best-selling financial expert and motivational speaker who has dedicated his life to teaching families how to manage their money and become debt-free. The authors place an emphasis on hard work ethic, and explain how to utilize the principles of saving, giving, budgeting, and smart spending to raise children with the knowledge they need to be financially secure for the rest of their lives.

After the Music Stopped: the Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. Blinder

Alan S. Binder is one of the foremost economic thinkers in the United States and worldwide. He served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan and is currently a professor of economics at Princeton University. His book, After the Music Stopped: the Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, offers a clear picture of the Great Recession of 2007 and the reaction of our government in its wake. He presents a complicated situation in a very straightforward and simple way that provides his readers with a true understanding most people lack about the fallout of our financial system and its far-reaching effects.