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The End of Personal Finance: Decades of advice turn out to be so much garbage. | The Big Money
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"Personal finance has come to substitute for the role government should play for people," observes Nan Mooney, author of (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents. "In the past 20 years the myth of the person succeeding on their own has gotten bigger and bigger. This myth is dangerous. It tells you if you can't balance everything and you are in debt, it is your fault."
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Nonetheless, personal finance is unlikely to crawl away and die anytime soon for a simple reason: We think we need it. "We're kind of screwed but we don't have a choice but to take care of ourselves because no one else is helping," admits MSN's personal finance columnist, Liz Weston.
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Questions for Suze Orman - She's So Money - Deborah Soloman - New York Times
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For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987.
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If You Knew Suze Like We Know Suze: You wouldn’t listen to her advice. | The Big Money
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Although she published a comprehensive—and very useful—guide to personal finance in 2001, her first two best-sellers focused on the "emotional roadblocks" to financial freedom.
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Who is struggling these days, according to Suze? "People who grew up without much money and later earn a comfortable living sometimes spend too much to make up for what they didn't get as children. ... People who feel entitled to the good life, or are unconsciously copying a mother or father who lived beyond her or his means. ... If you feel the need to impress people with what you have rather than with who you are, you are at high risk for credit card abuse."
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Suze Orman: Financial Freedom - Oprah.com
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Investing the same dollar amount every month of the year in the same stock or mutual fund—or dollar-cost averaging—is the single best way to minimize your risk of buying shares at the wrong time.
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Puncturing an Investment Myth: What is dollar-cost averaging, and why is the investment community so divided on it? | The Big Money
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Many advisers have historically recommended dollar-cost averaging, with Suze Orman calling it "the single best way to minimize your risk of buying shares at the wrong time."
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Subsequent data-driven research showed that, under a variety of different actual historical time horizons, taking that big gamble up front worked better over the long haul.
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Much Ado About Suze: Comment roundup on Scurlock's Orman story. | The Big Money
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In response, Editor James Ledbetter announced The Big Money will run a piece on the dollar cost averaging investment strategy in the coming days. (The piece is now available here.)
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