Debt Free or Die Trying is the sometimes serious, most-times amusing story of how I buried myself in over $30,000 in debt. This book will help you stop living the lifestyle of the fast and the financially frivolous and develop a sustainable plan based on proven tools that allowed me to become debt free. I believe you can become debt free, too. This book will show you: •How I buried myself in over $30,000 in debt before age 30 •How and why I reached “rock bottom” and decided to become debt free •The four Debt Free or Die Trying keys to success and the five payment strategies I used to pay off all of my debts For more information and other helpful tips, visit DebtFreeOrDieTrying.com.

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THE FRUGAL LIFESTYLE: How to Save Money, Declutter Your Life and Live a Debt Free Lifestyle Do you want to get out of debt once and for all? Are you tired of living from paycheck to paycheck, feeling like you never have quite enough? With this book, you have a comprehensive guide to doing a complete overhaul of your financial situation from debt relief to retirement planning and everything in between. You will even learn how to do a professional assessment of your finances so that you can see exactly what you have to work with and how to construct a plan uniquely suited to your needs. After reading this guide to frugal living, you won’t need to spend extra money that you don’t have on a professional financial advisor. Discover how to live frugally and free yourself from debt painlessly Also, you’ll discover.. Simple lifestyle changes that will eliminate clutter and save you money. Proven investment strategies that you can use to earn more money. How you can build a savings no matter how tight your budget is. And much more! Table of Contents Chapter 1: Do it Yourself Financial Assessment Learn how to do a financial assessment like a pro so you can see exactly where you stand as of now. Chapter 2: Freeing Yourself from Debt Read about strategies for managing your debt and becoming totally debt free Chapter 3: Planning Your Dream Retirement Get tips and tricks for planning for the retirement you always dreamed of. Chapter 4: A Brief Guide to Wall Street Learn the basics of investing and how to build an investment portfolio with low risk and high reward. Chapter 5: Savings 101 Everything you need to know about building a savings in any situation Chapter 6: Minimalism for Maximum Gain How to cut your expenses by eliminating clutter and knowing your priorities Chapter 7: Budgeting for Freedom All you need to know to create your own budget for getting out of debt, saving money, and achieving financial freedom

The Last and Only Time America Was Free of Debt?and How It Led to the Two-Party Political System
?An engaging treatment of a topic of perennial concern and frequent misunderstanding, this lucid tale of the brief moment when the United States was debt-free should be on every Congress member’s bedside table.”?Peter J.Woolley, Professor of Comparative Politics, Fairleigh Dickinson University
When President James Monroe announced in his 1824 message to Congress that, barring an emergency, the large public debt inherited from the War for Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and the War of 1812 would be extinguished on January 1, 1835, Congress responded by crafting legislation to transform that prediction into reality. Yet John Quincy Adams,Monroe’s successor, seemed not to share the commitment to debt freedom, resulting in the rise of opposition to his administration and his defeat for reelection in the bitter presidential campaign of 1828. The new president, Andrew Jackson, was thoroughly committed to debt freedom, and when it was achieved, it became the only time in American history when the country carried no national debt. In A Nation Wholly Free: The Elimination of the National Debt in the Age of Jackson, award-winning economic historian Carl Lane shows that the great and disparate issues that confronted Jackson, such as internal improvements, the ?war” against the Second Bank of the United States, and the crisis surrounding South Carolina’s refusal to pay federal tariffs, become unified when debt freedom is understood as a core element of Jacksonian Democracy.
The era of debt freedom lasted only two years and ten months. As the government accumulated a surplus, a fully developed opposition party emerged?the beginning of our familiar two-party system?over rancor about how to allocate the newfound money. Not only did government move into an oppositional party system at this time, the debate about the size and role of government distinguished the parties in a pattern that has become familiar to Americans. The partisan debate over national debt and expenditures led to poorly thought out legislation, forcing the government to resume borrowing. As a result, after Jackson left office in 1837, the country fell into a major depression. Today we confront a debt that exceeds $17 trillion. Indeed, we have been borrowing ever since that brief time we freed ourselves from an oversized debt. A thoughtful, engaging account with strong relevance to today, A Nation Wholly Free is the fascinating story of an achievement that now seems fanciful.

Although banking and sovereign debt crises are not unusual, the crisis that has unfolded across the world since 2007 has been unique in both its scale and scope. It has also been unusual in being both triggered by, and mainly affecting, developed economies. Starting with the US subprime mortgage crisis, and the recession in 2007-2009, the problem soon erupted into financial crisis in Europe. A few of these countries came to the brink of bankruptcy, and were rescued by the EU and the IMF on the condition they adopt austerity measures. The detrimental social effects of the crisis in both the US and Europe are still emerging.

Although there have been several studies published on the US crisis in particular, there has so far been an absence of an accessible comparative overview of both crises. This insightful text aims to fill this gap, offering a critical overview of causes, policy responses, effects and future implications. Starting with the historical context and mutation of the crisis, the book explores the policies, regulations, and governance reforms that have been implemented to cope with the US subprime mortgage crises. A parallel analysis considers the causes of the European sovereign debt crisis and the responses of the European Union (EU), examining why the EU is as yet unable to resolve the crisis. This book is supported with eResources that include essay questions and class discussion questions in order to assist students in their understanding.

This uniquely comprehensive and readable overview will be of interest and relevance to those studying financial crises, financial governance, international economics and international political economy.

The underexamined art and science of managing the federal government’s huge debt.

Everyone talks about the size of the U.S. national debt, now at $13 trillion and climbing, but few talk about how the U.S. Treasury does the borrowing even though it is one of the world’s largest borrowers. Everyone from bond traders to the home-buying public is affected by the Treasury’s decisions about whether to borrow short or long term and what types of bonds to sell to investors.

What is the best way for the Treasury to finance the government’s huge debt? Harvard’s Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson, Joshua Rudolph, and Larry Summers argue that the Treasury could save taxpayers money and help the economy by borrowing more short term and less long term. They also argue that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve made a huge mistake in recent years by rowing in opposite directions: while the Fed was buying long-term bonds to push investors into other assets, the Treasury was doing the opposite selling investors more long-term bonds.

This book includes responses from a variety of public and private sector experts on how the Treasury does its borrowing, some of whom have criticized the way the Treasury has been managing its borrowing.