There is a rhinoceros in your kitchen. It is not a pet. It is the mortgage, the whole life policy, and the credit card you thought was a bargain. The bank called it 6 percent. Your wallet has been paying something else.
JE Warr pulls up a chair, sets a calculator on the table, and does the math out loud. No suit. No slogan. Just the numbers, told as stories.
In Retirement Tray and Dede want a month in Paris. The calculator gives them three years of instant coffee instead. Bill and Laurie watch a $100,000 loan cost them $216,000 and still get told they got 6 percent. A roughneck named Al finds out his whole life policy is a bad savings account glued to a shrinking insurance policy.
Read one chapter. Run your own numbers. If you are not mad, you were not paying attention.
JE Warr has spent forty years on the kitchen-table side of money. Businesses built. A bankruptcy survived. Books written so a working family can see the rhinoceros before they sign.