How to Prosper in a Financial World That’s Rigged Against You

The Price of Money

The Sunday Times Bestseller 
 
'Excellent . . . Filled with knowledge that will help you make better money decisions.' Laura Whateley, author of Money: A User's Guide 
 
We all depend on money every day. But almost none of us understand it. 
 
Have you ever wondered why your shopping bill keeps getting more expensive? Or how the government can produce billions out of thin air while your savings are shrinking? Or where you should put your money in an age of economic turmoil? Here, a leading investor offers a crash-course in how money works, and how to make yours go further. You will never look at your bank balance the same way again. 
 
'How the global monetary system shapes our everyday personal finances . . . Really, really interesting.' Claer Barrett, author of What They Don't Teach You About Money 
 
'Fascinating . . . A bracing ride through the unexpectedly wild world of money.' Ed Conway, author of Material World

This brilliant book offers a singularly clear, accessible and funny introduction to where our economic malaise has come from - and how understanding it can help any of us make better financial decisions. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

A pithy and punchy guide that explains in a very engaging and readable manner the essentials of modern finance and economics. It is profoundly useful for anyone wanting to understand why the current global economy is in such a mess, and what that might mean for your own finances.

GILLIAN TETT, Editor-at-Large of the Financial Times

Dix has produced as lucid and comprehensive account of money and its pitfalls as you are likely to find. In an age of elevated prices it is highly relevant to all our lives.

ALEX BRUMMER, City Editor of the Daily Mail

A tour of the nuts and bolts that hold the economy together is not supposed to be interesting, but Rob Dix makes it fascinating. This is a bracing ride through the unexpectedly wild world of money.

Very little affects your quality of life more than money - and it's hard to get and to keep if you don't really understand how it works. After you've read Rob Dix's short, sharp introduction, you will know more than most ordinary people about how money works - and also (I'm sorry to say) rather more than most Cabinet ministers too.

MERRYN SOMERSET WEBB, Bloomberg Columnist and host of Merryn Talks Money

An excellent primer for anyone who ever wondered how the financial system and economy really works - filled with knowledge that will help you make better money decisions in your own life, too.

LAURA WHATELEY, author of Money: A User’s Guide

John Maynard Keynes once said that &quot;not one man in a million&quot; truly understands inflation: a state of affairs that is extremely problematic for millions of people and, by extension, for society as a whole. Rob Dix's book The Price of Money is an important contribution to redressing that problem.

ANDREW CRAIG, Author of How to Own the World

Not a moment too soon, Rob Dix has laid out in the most refreshing, entertaining, approachable and informative way the historical intricacies, intentional complexity, purposeful ambiguity and frustrating inconsistencies of the global markets, economic policy - and money. The Price of Money should be required reading for anyone who transacts (gets paid, pays for anything or tries to invest) at any point in their journey. As an investor I enjoyed and learned from every page and know other readers will too.

EILEEN BURBRIDGE, Partner at Passion Capital

A fascinating and surprising tour through how the global monetary system shapes our everyday finances – really, really interesting.

CLAER BARRETT, Author of What They Don’t Teach You About Money

Rob Dix started investing as a hobby using his spare cash, but soon became obsessed. Over the next ten years, he would do everything he could to educate himself about the financial world - and to pass on what he learnt. It is a journey that would lead Rob to found the multi-award-winning Property Geek blog, cocreate the UK's most-downloaded investment show, The Property Podcast, and explain financial basics everywhere from the Sunday Times to the Mail on Sunday. Today, Rob is one of Britain's best-respected money experts - on a mission to teach the world about how money, the economy and investment really work.

The Sunday Times Bestseller 
 
'Excellent . . . Filled with knowledge that will help you make better money decisions.' Laura Whateley, author of Money: A User's Guide 
 
We all depend on money every day. But almost none of us understand it. 
 
Have you ever wondered why your shopping bill keeps getting more expensive? Or how the government can produce billions out of thin air while your savings are shrinking? Or where you should put your money in an age of economic turmoil? Here, a leading investor offers a crash-course in how money works, and how to make yours go further. You will never look at your bank balance the same way again.

Rob Dix

This is a masterpiece. I have repeatedly found that most conventional financial advice is bang on the money - provided you were born in 1958, and started following it in 1971. But things have changed. This is the book I want my children to read.

This brilliant book doesn’t just debunk the most common misconceptions people have about money. It also reveals how to really build wealth – no luck, inherited fortune or business genius required. It’s the one-stop guide you need to transform your finances.

Jake Humphrey, author of HIGH PERFORMANCE

A brilliant read that is equally engaging, informative and accessible. This book will make you revisit, reconsider and maybe even refresh your thinking on some of the things you always thought you knew about money and investing.

Jack Meaning, co-author of CAN’T WE JUST PRINT MORE MONEY?

A lively take on modern money management from a gifted storyteller, filled with intriguing financial predictions.

Claer Barrett, author of WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU ABOUT MONEY

A very important book . . . All too many millions of us are sleep-walking towards a worryingly impoverished future. Reading Seven Myths About Money will go some way to helping you avoid suffering that fate.

Andrew Craig, author of HOW TO OWN THE WORLD

And the Truth About Finding Financial Freedom

What if everything you’ve been told about money is wrong? 
 
Have you ever been told that cutting your spending is the key to financial freedom? 
Or that only a fool would try to make money by picking stocks? 
Or that buying your home is always a smart investment? 
 
Most of us have heard these truisms from friends, from family, even from financial experts. They are held up as nuggets of timeless wisdom. There’s just one problem: none of them is true. 
 
Over the last decade, the world of money has transformed – but the mainstream financial advice hasn’t caught up. The result: most of us are being fed money advice that will only take us further from our financial goals. 
 
Here, a leading investor debunks seven of the most common misconceptions about money, and explains why the true path to wealth is dramatically different from what you’ve been told. Confounding and eminently practical, Seven Myths About Money sketches out a radically new route to financial freedom – one fit for the twenty-first century.

Rob Dix

Praise for Seven Myths About Money

This is a masterpiece. I have repeatedly found that most conventional financial advice is bang on the money - provided you were born in 1958, and started following it in 1971. But things have changed. This is the bo ...

This brilliant book doesn’t just debunk the most common misconceptions people have about money. It also reveals how to really build wealth – no luck, inherited fortune or business genius required. It’s the one-stop ...

A brilliant read that is equally engaging, informative and accessible. This book will make you revisit, reconsider and maybe even refresh your thinking on some of the things you always thought you knew about money a ...

This is a masterpiece. I have repeatedly found that most conventional financial advice is bang on the money - provided you were born in 1958, and started following it in 1971. But things have changed. This is the bo ...

This brilliant book doesn’t just debunk the most common misconceptions people have about money. It also reveals how to really build wealth – no luck, inherited fortune or business genius required. It’s the one-stop ...

A brilliant read that is equally engaging, informative and accessible. This book will make you revisit, reconsider and maybe even refresh your thinking on some of the things you always thought you knew about money a ...

This is a masterpiece. I have repeatedly found that most conventional financial advice is bang on the money - provided you were born in 1958, and started following it in 1971. But things have changed. This is the bo ...

This brilliant book doesn’t just debunk the most common misconceptions people have about money. It also reveals how to really build wealth – no luck, inherited fortune or business genius required. It’s the one-stop ...

A brilliant read that is equally engaging, informative and accessible. This book will make you revisit, reconsider and maybe even refresh your thinking on some of the things you always thought you knew about money a ...

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