[recursive]

How do you get trustworthy information? I'm basically financially illiterate, but I'm not really happy about it. I'm interested in learning, but how? Everyone's trying to sell me something. I don't know how to establish credibility of a source. And I'm not keen to take financial advice from an arbitrary source, since there's often a distinct incentive to give bad advice.

[clay_to_n]

The best resource I've found is Reddit's personal finance forum, and specifically their "How to Handle Money" guide - especially the flowchart and "simplified flowchart".

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics

I've found a lot of other great individual articles, but no other "how do I even start?" resource with much value.

[paviva]

The intelligent investor by Ben Graham. He's long dead, so no conflits of interests.

[alexanderstears]

I think the best thing to do is look at each transaction separately, read a few sources, and reflect on what made sense, what the sources were all agreement about, and what seemed like a pitch.

Consumer advocacy agencies usually have excellent advice. Credit unions seem to have well-intentioned advice but the information can be incomplete.

E.g if you're about to buy a car, read a few articles about getting car loans, don't just take the dealership finance person at their word.

I've been meaning to get around to making a decision tree for technical people who never had to bother with this stuff but I don't know how much time I need to dedicate to "please don't buy a jetski if you're unemployed".