The Road to Wealth: The Answers You Need to More Than 2,000 Personal Finance Questions, Revised and Updated

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The Road to Wealthis Suze Orman's most authoritative and accessible resource for every stage of your financial life. Millions of readers have embraced Suze Orman's New York Times bestselling The Road to Wealth since it was originally published in 2001. But the world has changed vastly since then, and it's more important than ever for readers to have access to accurate and practical answers to every question they have about their financial futures-questions Suze answers in The Road to Wealth. Compassionate, straightforward, and easy to understand, this updated edition gives readers invaluable advice about- Credit cards and the new bankruptcy laws FICO scores Changes in student financial aid Changes in the real estate market and mortgages Stocks and bonds The latest retirement investment strategies, including the new Roth 401(k) Mutual funds and annuities Wills and trusts Social Security Life insurance Disability and long-term care insurance Identity theft (and what to do if you're a victim of it)

Suze Orman is a two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, #1 New York Times bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and one of the top motivational speakers in the world today. Orman has written nine consecutive New York Times bestsellers and has written, co-produced, and hosted seven PBS specials based on her books. She is the seven-time Gracie Award-winning host of The Suze Orman Show, which airs on CNBC. She is also a contributing editor to O- The Oprah Magazine. Twice named one of the "Time 100," Time magazine's list of the world's most influential people, and named by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women, Orman was the recipient of the National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign. In 2009 she received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in 2010 she received an honorary doctor of commercial science from Bentley University. Orman, a Certified Financial Planner. professional, directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987 to 1997, served as Vice President-Investments for Prudential Bache Securities from 1983 to 1987, and was an account executive at Merrill Lynch from 1980 to 1983. Prior to that, she worked as a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, California, from 1973 to 1980.

"The most comprehensive of her works and... the most useful as a reference." -The New York Times "A winner." -USA Today "Suze has managed to do for money what Trading Spaces did for design and Top Chef did for food-make it accessible and entertaining. She's... intelligent, articulate, sassy... a blast to be around." -Entertainment Weekly "The reigning shaman and high priestess of personal finance." -The San Francisco Examiner "People just can't get enough of financial expert Suze Orman." -The Dallas Morning News