One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.