April 2023 MBR The Money/Finance Shelf

The Money/Finance Shelf

What Should I Do with My Money?
Bryan M. Kuderna
McGraw Hill Professional
1221 Avenue of the Americas, 45th Floor, New York, NY 10020
www.mhprofessional.com
9781264857937, $25.00, PB, 272pp

https://www.amazon.com/What-Should-Do-My-Money/dp/1264857934

Synopsis: Bryan M. Kuderna, is a Certified Financial Planner and nationally recognized financial advisor, who knows first-hand that the key to wise financial decisions is a deep understanding of economics. When his clients ask him, "What should I do with my money?" Kuderna has found the conversation quickly turns from one of personal finance to a 360-degree view of economics, illustrating why and how issues on the global stage and the kitchen table are directly connected.

With the publication of "What Should I Do with My Money?: Economic Insights to Build Wealth Amid Chaos", Kuderna explains how economies and markets are affected by the way people live, learn, love, work, play, and pray -- for it is these behaviors that determine how groups, corporations, and nations make money or lose money.

Using history, storytelling, and sage insights, Kuderna takes you on a panoramic tour of the nine most important domains impacting your wealth: Population (a rapidly growing and shifting balance of givers and takers); Entitlements (the past, present, and future of Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, pensions, and stimulus programs); Education (costs and benefits of college and student loans); Economic Philosophy (political and monetary beliefs that govern our world); Environment (the sustainability of our planet amid global warming, plastics, and finite natural resources); Tech (opportunities and threats from the fastest-growing sector of the stock market); War (the use of proxy wars, civil military fusion, cyber, and economic attacks); Religion (how faith has steered economies from the stone age to the space age); Personal Finance (a plan to attain the Three I's: Impact, Independence, and Income).

Each chapter includes special features explaining the "macro" problem and what it means to your personal "micro" world -- helping you connect the dots of global issues to your own financial plan. Now more than ever you might feel overwhelmed, the victim of existing economic structures, but wait and see how there has been no better time for you to take control and build wealth.

Critique: In an age of governmental instability, rapid technological changes, global disaster disruptions in the form of wars and pandemics, criminal manipulations of the marketplace ranging from Ponzi schemes to insider trading, there is a minefield of potential problems that can and will have a detrimental (and potentiality disastrous) impact on the fortunes and finances of unwary and inexperienced investors. "What Should I Do with My Money?: Economic Insights to Build Wealth Amid Chaos" by investment expert Bryan M. Kuderna should be considered essential reading for anyone wanting to effectively and profitably create personal wealth through investment, be it in stocks, bonds, or entrepreneurial start-ups. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "What Should I Do with My Money" is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Wealth Management & Investing collections. It should be noted that "What Should I Do with My Money" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $22.72).

Editorial Note: Bryan M. Kuderna (https://bryankuderna.com) the founder of Kuderna Financial Team and was named one of New Jersey's Top 10 Financial Professionals of 2021 by NJBIZ. He hosts the popular finance and business podcast, "The Kuderna Podcast" and is a regular contributor to CNBC, Newsmax, Financial Planning Magazine, and other media. His first book "Millennial Millionaire: A Guide to Become a Millionaire by 30" launched Kuderna as a national speaker at colleges, hospitals, and financial institutions.

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