Outsmart the Money
Magicians Endorsements
J. Bradley Green
CEO, Park Lawn Corporation, the largest publicly traded, Canadian-owned funeral services provider
Mary Perkins
CFO, Petrocom Energy Group
Angela (Evans) Gildea
U.S. National Sector Leader for Energy, KPMG
Frank Toman
Owner, Allstate Insurance Agency, retired
Tim Phillips
President & CEO, Revenade, offering global organizational consulting
Robert Lopez
Thunderbird School of Global Management MBA & Director of Engineering at Cameron International, retired
Patrick Schweitzer
Distinguished Engineering Associate, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Anthony Colombo
President, MC2 Civil providing construction and oilfield services for various municipalities and the Texas Department of Transportation
Elijah Lopez
Senior Investment Advisor and Certified Financial Planner
Jerold Coker
Owner, Geico Insurance Agency
Outsmart the Money Magicians
Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS. Renowned investor and financial insider, Christopher Manske explains how the IRS and Wall Street systemically approach their customers with guile and misdirection in his second book, Outsmart the Money Magicians.
Each chapter contains an insider’s advice on recognizing how investors have been conditioned by the country’s largest financial institutions and then guides readers to maximize their investment strategies and wealth building efforts. Step by step, Manske uses engaging, prescriptive narrative to help readers understand the importance of certain measurements and reports that neither Wall Street nor the IRS typically offer. He answers this age-old question in a very new way: “How do you save instead of consume so you can successfully build your net worth?” With thematic focus on the power of real income and the dangers of doing too many transactions, Chris offers an original perspective on how to walk the path that truly leads to financial independence and monetary stability. Outsmart the Money Magicians empowers readers and ensures they will never look at their money the same way again.
About CHristopher Manske
Christopher Manske, of Manske Wealth Management, has been praised, published, or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and many more.
A frequent guest on national podcasts and TV shows, Chris can also be seen on Yahoo! Finance, ThinkAdvisor, MSN.com, CEO World, and numerous others. Manske’s first book, The Prepared Investor challenged Wall Street’s typical approach to crisis investing and has been compared to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers because both books question a widely accepted concept and ultimately change how readers see the world around them. His latest book from McGraw-Hill, Outsmart the Money Magicians, will leave readers shocked at how often the IRS and Wall Street use purposeful misdirection. Manske leads one of the largest investment firms in Houston, Texas managing half a billion dollars for individuals and institutions all over the world. Over his twenty-year investing career, he spent over a decade with Merrill Lynch where he was selected to help train thousands of financial advisors across the country. Manske graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and, after serving in the Army, he did his post-graduate work at Rice University. He’s married to an Aggie named Jessica and together they raise four daughters.
