Wall Street advice at home

Combining films with personal finance, Debbie Harrison's new book, The Money Zone, provides an alternative to the stale thinking on how young people should plan for the future. From the outset Harrison, who is regular contributor to the Financial Times and Investment Week, informs readers that they should forget about linking happiness to the three financial objectives of getting a steady job (preferably for life), buying a house and looking after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. She says: "Unlike flares, steady jobs for life went out in the 1970s and will not be com...