Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
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Dara Duguay · 2001
66/100
👎 Skip It
Dara Duguay knows her stuff — she ran financial-literacy programs at Citigroup and Jump$tart — and her real-life stories of young adults' money mistakes make the lessons stick. But readers who already know the basics found it repetitive, and it's showing its age since 2001, so newer guides on this list do the job better.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing60
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit68
Human-eye read58
Penny’s verdict66
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