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Introduction
Welcome to Lootology! This site covers the core concepts of personal finance, and provides links to useful sites with information and tools to help you manage your money successfully. When it comes to your money, the price of carelessness can be high: poor credit, bankruptcy, foreclosure, loss of savings, and unemployment. Think of personal finance as a health regimen for your wallet. Just as your physical health needs attention, so does your money.

Lootology will help you learn about personal finance. Personal finance encompasses many financial activities, products, and decisions involving money, its management, and financial goals and objectives.

Every day we make choices. Making poor choices over and over again can be destructive. Nothing highlighted the damage of financial mismanagement more than the Great Recession. People bought houses they couldn’t afford with mortgages they didn’t understand, financed unnecessary consumption with home equity and credit cards, and avoided setting aside that “rainy day fund” to stay afloat when times got tough. People lost their homes, jobs, and savings. Lootology will help you understand personal finance and be prepared for life’s financial decisions and challenges.

Lootology is: • a resource for money smart students • an online encyclopedia with links to personal finance information

Lootology is not: a financial planner, investment advisor, loan broker, stock broker, or tax advisor. However, the information acquired by reading this site and the other sites we suggest will help you make better choices, and be better prepared and informed when you opt for working with a professional.

In addition to Lootology, there are a number of good sites to check out for an overview of the multiple topics that encompass personal financial management. Here are the 15 most popular personal finance sites: '''1 | Yahoo! Finance''' 2 | CNN Money 3 | Fool 4 | SeekingAlpha 5 | BankRate 6 | Mint 7 | Investopedia 8 | MoneyWatch 9 | SmartMoney 10 | Kiplinger 11 | WiseBread 12 | Minyanville 13 | GetRichSlowly 14 | Credit 15 | Bargaineering * Most Popular Personal Finance Websites | Updated 5/15/2012 | eBizMBA

And here is another great with tutorials: http://pfhub.com/finance-tutorials/