Gimme My Money Back: Your Guide to Beating the Financial Crisis

by Ali Velshi

One way or another, you lost money as a direct result of the financial crisis. Now you have to start making it back, and you can do that by reading this book. This book shows how the markets work and how to be involved, how to calculate personal risk tolerance based on personality, goals, age and years from retirement, how to avoid losing money, and how to use mutual funds, index funds, stocks, ETFs, bonds, and other investment vehicles to speed up readers' own personal recovery. Includes model portfolios to get you started right away. Written by CNN Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi using his trademark user-friendly voice, GIMME MY MONEY BACK is a straightforward guide to understanding how we got into the mess we re in, with concrete, simple, proven steps to get you out of it.

Genres: Money, Nonfiction, Finance

160 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 2008

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was hoping this book would give me a new perspective to help me make smarter financial decisions, but unfortunately, I didn't learn anything new. So now even though I think I'm pretty well versed in what there is to know about investing, I still don't think I make the smartest decisions-- but no book can correct that!

[Bill · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of Velshi's work at CNN, but this book doesn't offer any major new insight. It offers practical and simple advice for any investor, but a lot of the same information is available in most other personal finance books.