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SmartMoney is on sale for $5 for a year subscription at Amazon.com.

I’m not advocating this as the only or best magazine for learning about money, but it’s a good one, and with this deal, it’s cheap. Just skip over the articles about picking individual stocks, which is a sucker’s game.

Granted, personal finance reading is part of my job, but I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, SmartMoney, Money, Forbes, Fortune, Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports Money Advisor, BusinessWeek, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Journal of Financial Planning, and several others. That would be overkill for most people, who could just start with SmartMoney or Money, for example.

It’s also not a bad idea to check out the business pages of your local newspaper, which are likely to contain personal finance and consumer news you can use.