{"id":852,"date":"2025-06-17T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidjamesgarber.com\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:17:00","slug":"personal-finance-summer-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidjamesgarber.com\/blog\/archives\/852","title":{"rendered":"Personal Finance Summer Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Finance Lesson 175 Assignment<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my personal finance reading list for the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>What Has Government Done To Our Money?<\/em> By Murray N. 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Kiyosaki ($6.82 on Kindle) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle-ebook\/dp\/1612681131\/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1750165085&amp;sr=8-1\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle-ebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>A Simple Path to Wealth<\/em> By JL Collins ($14.99 on Kindle) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Simple-Path-Wealth-Revised-Expanded-ebook\/dp\/B0DT7CM52P\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Simple-Path-Wealth-Revised-Expanded-ebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fables of Fortune By Richard Watts ($9.99 on Kindle) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fables-Fortune-What-Rich-People-ebook\/dp\/B005WWN32S\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fables-Fortune-What-Rich-People-ebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Economics for Real People By Gene Callahan ($2.99 on Kindle) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economics-Real-People-Introduction-Austrian-ebook\/dp\/B005O178VO\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economics-Real-People-Introduction-Austrian-ebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Creature from Jekyll Island By G Edward Griffin ($17.58 on Kindle) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve-ebook\/dp\/B00ARFNQ54\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve-ebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lessons for the Young Economist By Robert P. Murphy ($2.99 on Kindle) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lessons-Young-Economist-Robert-Murphy-ebook\/dp\/B0049U47PQ\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lessons-Young-Economist-Robert-Murphy-ebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Economics in One Lesson By Henry Hazlitt ($5.49 on Kindle) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand-ebook\/dp\/B003XT60KO\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand-ebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Finance Lesson 175 Assignment This is my personal finance reading list for the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":841,"url":"https:\/\/davidjamesgarber.com\/blog\/archives\/841","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":0},"title":"The Federal Reserve and the Economy","author":"David Garber","date":"June 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Personal Finance Lesson 160 Assignment In this assignment, I will be explaining what the Federal Reserve is and what it does to the economy. 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