Die Broke by Stephen M Pollan

Die Broke by Stephen M Pollan

From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you'll learn that life is a game where the loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. There are four steps to the process:

Quit Today

No, don't tell your boss to shove it...at least not out loud. But in your head accept that from this day on you're a free agent whose number one workplace priority is your personal bottom line.

Pay Cash

You should be as conscious of spending as you are of saving. Credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (buying homes and cars) when paying cash is impossible.

Don't Retire

Your work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss.

Die Broke

It sounds terrifying, the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now, fear of impoverishment in the long run.

Mark LeVine is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches Modern Middle Eastern History, Culture, and Islamic Studies. He is the co-editor of Twilight of Empire: Reactions to Occupation (2003) and Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Countries, and the author of the forthcoming book Why They Don't Hate Us: Islam and the World in the Age of Globalization (2004).