Money Magic: An Economist's Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life

Money Magic by Laurence Kotlikoff is a must-read guide to money management that offers simple money magic tricks to transform financial future. It provides a clear path to a richer, happier, and safer financial life, teaching readers how to choose a career, buy a superior education, cash out their IRA, delay retirement, and lower their average lifetime tax bracket. Kotlikoff uses his soft heart, hard nose, dry wit, and flashing wand to cast a powerful spell, leaving readers eager to accomplish financial planning.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 04 January 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Increase your spending power, enhance your standard of living, and achieve financial independence with this must-read guide to money management (Jane Bryant Quinn).

Laurence Kotlikoff, one of our nation's premier personal finance experts and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security, harnesses the power of economics and advanced computation to deliver a host of spellbinding but simple money magic tricks that will transform your financial future. Each trick shares a basic ingredient for financial savvy based on economic common sense, not Wall Street snake oil. Money Magic offers a clear path to a richer, happier, and safer financial life. Whether you're making education, career, marriage, lifestyle, housing, investment, retirement, or Social Security decisions, Kotlikoff provides a clear framework for readers of all ages and income levels to learn tricks like:

- How to choose a career to maximize your lifetime earnings (hint: you may want to consider picking up a plunger instead of a stethoscope).
- How to buy a superior education on the cheap and graduate debt-free.
- Why it's smarter to cash out your IRA to pay off your mortgage.
- Why delaying retirement for two years can reap dividends and how to lower your average lifetime tax bracket.

Money Magic's most powerful act is transforming your financial thinking, explaining not just what to do but why to do it. Get ready to discover the economics approach to financial planning—the fruit of a century's worth of research by thousands of cloistered economic wizards whose now-accessible collective findings turn conventional financial advice on its head. Kotlikoff uses his soft heart, hard nose, dry wit, and flashing wand to cast a powerful spell, leaving you with the tools and knowledge you need to take control of your finances and achieve your financial goals.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 138 x 209 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780316541947