Jordan E. Goodman

Author Bio

Jordan Goodman is known as "America's Money Answers Man" because he has been answering Americans' questions about personal finance for over 28 years. He is a personal finance journalist who covers every aspect of helping people make money decisions. He worked at MONEY Magazine for 18 years, ultimately rising to be Wall Street Correspondent. He appeared weekly on Cable News Network on Business Day with Stuart Varney for 3 years, and was the weekly financial commentator on NBC News at Sunrise for 9 years. He did a weekly "Road to Riches" personal finance commentary on the Public Radio's Marketplace Morning Report for 6 years. He continues to appear on many call-in radio stations and TV shows and do speeches around the country, answering average American's personal finance questions and he also answers hundreds of emails sent to his moneyanswers.com website.

Master Your Money Type is Mr. Goodman's 11th Book on personal finance. He has written Everyone's Money Book; the Everyone's Money Book series of 6 books on credit, investing, retirement, college planning, real estate and financial planning; Reading Between the Lies: How To Avoid Becoming a Victim of Wall Street's Next Scandal; the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms; and Barron's Finance and Investment Handbook.

Some of his favorite books about financial matters including Andrew Tobias' Only Investment Guide You Will Ever Need, Scott Bilker's Talk Your Way out of Credit Card Debt and Judy Resnick's I've Been Rich, I've Been Poor: Rich is Better. Many of his other favorite books are listed at the end of each chapter in Master Your Money Type.

Some of his favorite websites that he used in researching Master Your Money Type include: BankRateMonitor.com for banking information; Morningstar.com for mutual fund data and analysis; Debtsmart.com for those with debt troubles; and savingforcollege.com for college saving information. Many of his other favorite websites are listed at the end of each chapter of Master Your Money Type.