cover image Why the Rich Are Getting Richer: What Is Financial Education... Really?

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer: What Is Financial Education... Really?

Robert T. Kiyosaki. Plata, $17.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-61268-088-0

Rich Dad founder Kiyosaki (More Important Than Money) is back to again share his confident—and, this time, slightly brash—approach to financial freedom. To begin, he warns that this book contains the “graduate school version,” and readers who haven’t read the entry-level one, Rich Dad Poor Dad, should start there. “Savers are losers,” Kiyosaki declares, and the familiarity of the phrasing may be explained by his statement that “Donald Trump is a friend of mine.” What readers of previous Kiyosaki books may find most recognizable are the “quadrants” of different categories of income earners—employee, self-employed, big business owner, investor—with the last being the best in Kiyosaki’s view. Tax lessons are sprinkled throughout from Kiyosaki’s personal tax advisor, Tom Wheelwright. Kiyosaki himself discusses why (and how) the rich use debt to get richer and how they work for tax incentives. Readers will be either terrified or motivated by his dire predictions: “the robots are coming,” “mass unemployment has arrived,” and “the stock market is in the biggest bubble in world history.” Kiyosaki and his wife used the lessons in this book, he tells us, to achieve financial freedom in just a decade. His message is clear: get started. [em](July) [/em]