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Does 12 Months to $1 Million hold up?
12 Months to $1 Million (Moran) is one of the 102 money books on The Money Shelf. It was on the Amazon bestseller lists for personal finance or investing in Australia on 2 October 2026. The shelf links it to 1 of the 22 claims that the book tests against official records from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Each verdict below comes from that test.
Claim 8 · The book makes this claimSide hustle: start a side business
Not establishedThe survival figures show that 48.5 per cent of the US employer establishments opened in the year to March 2019 no longer had employees in March 2024, and that 61.6 per cent of the UK businesses born in 2019 were no longer active in 2024 (calculated by this audit as 100 minus 51.5 and 100 minus 38.4).
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