Me Bad Want Money Now

People want [more] money so bad that other people get rich writing about ‘how to get rich’; and with today's high gas prices, money management is all the rage. So how do you know which ideas will fit your lifestyle? Here are some popular books by the folks who know, or think they know, what you need for financial prosperity.

The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money: Everything You Need to Know in Good and Bad Times / by Suze Orman
The queen of personal finance, Suze Orman's latest book shares more money-wise insights on maintaining your economic stability. Readers familiar with Orman's radio show and seminars will recognize her up-front style and abrupt directives in this Q & A chronologue of her finer points. In addition to addressing typical financial quandaries, Orman offers advice for investors wishing to take that next step in money management, providing investment insight into both long and short-term market options.

Easy Money: How to Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out of Life / by Liz Pulliam Weston
In the age of identity theft, universal debt and a fluctuating economy, financial adviser Liz Weston outlines her three principles of financial stability: consolidate, automate, and delegate (or CAD). Easy Money is as much about organization as it is fund placement and account management, advocating a hybrid method of online/automated transactions together with more traditional practices of simplification for ensuring your personal and financial security.

The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches: a Practical (and fun) Guide to Enjoying Life More by Spending Less / by Jeff Yeager
Yeager retired from his job at 46 after he and his wife re-evaluated their priorities and began to practice "good living" habits. By acting prudently through conservation of resources (soft-boiling eggs in the dishwasher), "frugal fasting" (1 week of not spending money) and cutting long-term medical expenses with exercise and healthy eating, Yeager advocates that everyone can successfully preserve their finances while still enjoying a fruitful and luxurious lifestyle.

The Busy Family's Guide to Money /
by Sandra Block
Block is a well-known reporter and finance columnist for USA Today who's authored a number of books on investing over the years. Drawing on her extensive background as an investment banker and market analyst, she outlines her financial plan for American families in today's current economy. Though the title would indicate a more family-friendly book, the content is very universal with applications for individual account management, investment options, and saving for the future.

Get Rich, Stay Rich, and Pass It On: the Wealth Accumulation Secrets of America's Richest Families / by Catherine S. McBreen
McBreen claims to have the secret(s) of not just becoming rich, but accumulating wealth enough to pass down to other generations. Apparently, there are two distinct ways of doing this: (1) owning profit-earning real estate inter-generationally, and (2) perpetual variation in investment endeavors (i.e., continually re-conditioning your portfolio to adust to the market). Though other philosophies along the lines of trusts and mutual account banking are shared also, it's these two primary methods which increase the chances for developing the credit and equity needed to maintain wealth.

and for the really risky...

Das Kapital / by Karl Marx; updated ed. by Frances Wheen
Karl Marx figured it out; that is to say he didn’t, necessarily. In Das Kapital, Marx argues that personal wealth is oppressive, that being rich is outdated and that independent capital’s too volatile to sustain the market. Bottom Line: commercial enterprise (capitalism) is bad for all involved. Marx says that wants, or hypothetical necessities derived of self-sufficiency, counteract the basic nature of economic synergy. It’s not about “trying to gain”; rather personal ‘wealth’ has everything to do with autonomous functionality, an individual’s applied aptitude apart from the [theoretically] commercial world but within the group dynamic. Despite all the bad stuff that happened as a result, Das Kapital still stands as one of the most widely-read (and controversially panned) book on economics and finance.