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Are You Normal About Money?: Do You Behave Like Everyone Else?
Are You Normal About Money Do You Behave Like Everyone Else
Author: Bernice Kanner
With more Americans than ever investing in the stock market, has money become more important than sex? Is money the real obsession of our time? This book offers a charming and whimsical look at how we think about and behave with money—our attitudes and idiosyncrasies about every aspect of our finances, from the way we organize money to how ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781576600870
ISBN-10: 1576600874
Publication Date: 10/2001
Pages: 120
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Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Entertaining and sometimes thought provoking. Here's a sample:

* Only 12 percent of women and 16 percent of men think it's OK to marry for money.

* For 83.5 percent of home owners, buying a home is the biggest single purchase they will ever make.

* 90 percent of frequent flyers do not bequeath their miles in their wills. (Estate lawyers and divorce lawyers value the miles at two cents apiece.)

* 10 percent of people admit that they have switched price tags at a store so they could pay less for an item.

* 72 percent of people keep the bills in their wallet in order by denomination.

* More than half of all college students and recent graduates expect to be millionaires by age 40.


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