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Book Review: Automatic Wealth

Author: Russ Smith  November 4, 2008

My First book review for USFinances.info and my goal is to give you a chapter by chapter peek at what’s inside, offer valuable insight, and ultimately give you an opinion of if it’s worth buying or not. Let’s dig in…

 

Preface And Introduction: Here the author spells out who he is, and why he wrote the book. I actually found this interesting, and it helped me understand the perspective, and background from which the book is written. Also, because I had never heard of the author before, I found this preface helpful in that it gave me reasons to believe the author, and read what he had to say.

 

Chapter 1: Recognizing Reality: There’s a nice story beginning on page 35, that outlines how Masterson and some of his friends started a business building swimming pools for people in their neighborhood. The story offers some great points. I thought it was a nice way to motivate and inspire people to start their own small business, whatever it may be. The bottom line of this chapter is to look at your finances and the current economy and realize that this picture might not be so great. For me, this chapter didn’t have much meat to it, and not much content that I hadn’t heard already. With the exception of the nice story, I pretty much skimmed through it. Read the rest of this entry »