Episode 178 - How to Buy Happiness with Jonathan Clements

In this week’s archive of The Lange Money Hour: Where Smart Money Talks, we’re very excited to welcome Jonathan Clements back to the show. Jonathan Clements is one of the country’s foremost experts on personal finance. Jonathan was a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for almost 20 years. He also spent six years as director of financial education for Citi Personal Wealth Management. These days, Jonathan is involved with a financial startup, sits on the investment committee of Creative Planning in Leewood, Kansas, and regularly blogs at JonathanClements.com. Jonathan has written six books on personal finance, including the best-seller The Little Book of Main Street Money and the Jonathan Clements Money Guide 2016, but tonight, we’re going to focus on his latest, How to Think About Money, which came out e arlier this month. In this episode, Jonathan and Jim discuss the book’s five core insights: buy more happiness, bet on a long life, rewire your brain, think big and win, don’t lose. To find out what all of that means, take a listen to this episode of The Lange Money Hour: Where Smart Money Talks. TOPICS COVERED: 1. Introduction of Jonathan Clements, Author and Personal-Finance Adviser 2. Buy More Happiness, Not More Things 3. Bet on a Living Long Life 4. Achieve Financial Freedom Early in Work Life 5. Rewire Your Brain to Overcome the Instinct to Spend Now 6. Think Big About Your Ability to Earn Income 7. To Win, Don’t Lose To read the show transcript or listen to the MP3 file, http://bit.ly/2dku9YC