Millennial/Gen X/Gen Z Finance Guide

How to Be Wealthy By Age (2025)

Top 10 Mind-Blowing Money Stats (2025)

Resources

Resources

Investing Basics (Robinhood)

https://robinhood.com/us/en/learn/

General Personal Finance Books

• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley, especially if you have high expenses
• Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, especially if you want to change your emotional relationship with money
• I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi
• Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason, for timeless advice

Debt Makeover

• The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, especially if you are in more debt than you want to be (not recommended for investing advice)

Investing

• The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel, especially if you aren’t convinced that index investing is right for you
• The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins, a simple introduction to investing and building wealth
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
• Bogleheads investing start-up kit is a great place to start your path to investment success.
• Stock Series by JL Collins

Good videos about personal finance?

• The Bogleheads Investment Philosophy and Sound Financial Lifestyle videos by Rick Van Ness
• Khan academy “Practical Money Skills” videos:
  • The full series (skip the first video)
  • An indexed list
• JL Collins: “The Simple Path to Wealth”
• Clark Howard: Save More, Spend Less

Free e-books about personal finance?

• The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
• If You Can: How Millenials Can Get Rich Slowly by William J. Bernstein

Good blogs about personal finance?

• The Finance Buff – general personal finance
• The White Coat Investor – personal finance for professionals (higher income topics)
• Mad Fientist – advanced strategies for financial independence and early retirement
• Mr. Money Mustache – early retirement and frugality
• jlcollinsnh – investing and early retirement advice from a retired guy

Good podcasts about personal finance?

• The Clark Howard Show – general personal finance with some focus on scams and rip-offs
• Radical Personal Finance – general personal finance (can be political or religious at times)
• Stacking Benjamins Podcast – general personal finance
• Listen Money Matters – general personal finance
• Money for the Rest of Us – general personal finance
• Afford Anything – general personal finance
• Planet Money – economics
• Freakonomics Radio – economics
• Mad Fientist Financial Independence Podcast – financial independence and early retirement
• ChooseFI Podcast – financial independence and early retirement