With the U.S. debt ceiling becoming an ongoing economic issue for American politics, you may be confused about some of the terms you hear and read in the news – or worse, maybe you don’t even question them and you talk about “debt” and “deficits” interchangeably.
Taxes and spending sound equally bad too, but there are [...]
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May 2, 2011 · 1 comment
in Apps, financial education, financial fitness, international stock market, investment tools, lifehack, market reports, media, money management, news and updates, portfolio, stocks, video
iPad-owning investors, take note of the Wall Street Journal’s new MarketWatch Market Data iPad App – you have it on your iPhone, you might as well get it on your iPad now, too – You’ll get the same information you see on the iPhone app, only much clearer and easier to read and navigate.
The MarketWatch [...]
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October 18, 2010 · 5 comments
in CEO pay, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, US Treasury, US economy, bailout, banks, brokers, bubble, central banks, collapse, ethics, executive compensation, films, financial education, government, leadership, money lessons, regulation, reviews, risk, wealth transfer
Review of The Inside Job by Charles Ferguson (2010).
Despite the fact that it’s a trite truism that Wall Street is fueled by greed and “greed makes the world – or at least the markets – go round,” it’s merely the tip of the iceberg of moral depravity and social corruption that has been exposed on [...]
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August 26, 2010 · 2 comments
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If you’re a Canadian investor or you follow the commodities market, you’ve heard of BHP Billiton’s hostile takeover proposal for Saskatchewan’s Potash Corporation of Canada (TSX: POT) last week.
BHP Billiton proposed a buyout of Potash at a price of just $130/share. A price significantly lower than the June 2008 highs above $200/share that we saw [...]
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If you’re not used to it, the process for applying to rent an apartment can be a bit confusing at first. It seems much easier, after all, to just deal privately with a landlord/landlady him/herself.
In the U.S., many apartments (or should I say most?) will require that you apply just in order to even be [...]
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Welcome to the 59th edition of the Best of Money Carnival! This is a traveling personal finance carnival that doesn’t merely list good personal finance articles around the web, but tries to rank them and pick a winner.
This week saw 59 submissions, from which I was able to select a good 26 or so – [...]
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May 9, 2010 · 16 comments
in DIY, cashflow, consumers, credit cards, determination, discipline, estates, financial education, financial fitness, financial planning, goals, life, money decisions, psychology, spending, success, wealthbuilding
If you’ve been around on the interwebs and Twitter enough, and if you’ve read enough personal finance books, you’ll know a heck of a lot about The Millionaire Next Door. She or he spends less than you’d think, they don’t drive a Rolls Royce or Jaguar, and they’ve probably made it to millionaire within one [...]
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