A good planner should be listening to the holistic picture of what you are financially. What are your financial goals? What are you afraid of? How risky do you want to be? If they're like, you should do this, this isn't that, that is not a good planner for us. Some of the new networks that we often mention here, the Motley Fool, are Napfa, the Garrett planning network and the XY planning network.
Michelle Singletary is a best-selling author and Loeb Award-winning writer. She also pens “The Color of Money,” a nationally syndicated personal finance column which appears in The Washington Post. Robert Brokamp caught up with Singletary to discuss: - Why people fall for Ponzi schemes - If you should pay off your mortgage before retirement - Why we often lie about spending habits
Host: Robert Brokamp Guest: Michelle Singletary Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Annie Franks
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