A boom in financial self-help books

Not what most advisors want to hear, but apparently Suze Orman is doing just fine. The Wall Street Journal reports on one sector of the economy that isn’t faltering — financial-themed self-help books. They could make your job a lot easier, or a lot harder, depending on the advice they dispense.

“We’ve seen the stock-market plunge, the foreclosures surge, the layoffs and the bankruptcies mount,” writes The Journal‘s Eleanor Laise . “Now comes the inevitable next stage of the economic downturn: a rash of personal-finance books that promise to help readers navigate their way through the rubble — and even to prosper amid it. To some observers, it’s the surest sign yet that the worst is over.”