Category Archives: Articles That Could Change Your Life
Raising Financially Savvy Kids
Parents should try to educate their children about investing, money managing and donating to charities. It’s Friday afternoon, and Garrett Jay is surrounded by 30 kids at the mall. He’s not giving away tickets to the IMAX, but the adventure is about to begin. Garrett runs Money Lessons For Life, a business dedicated to teaching [...]
Should I Save, Invest or Pay Off Debt?
In the midst of the recession, Americans are trying to determine how to know when to save, invest and pay off their debt. Todd is kicking himself. He had forgotten how gut-wrenching it was when he got into some stocks shortly before the tech bubble burst in 2000, and rode what he didn’t realize was [...]
Refresh Financial Education: Vote on These Projects or Create Your Own Now!
The Pepsi Refresh Project at refresheverything.com is giving away over a million dollars to people and organizations with great ideas. Anyone can submit a project and projects are voted for by the public. There are already a number of financial education and financial literacy projects that could do great things for financial literacy if they [...]
Real World Economics
Divine economic insights through the anecdotes of cab drivers, corporate sponsors and restaurant employees. For the last 25 years, The Skins Game has been a popular TV attraction for golf fans and anyone else who wanted a sport other than football to enjoy for a few hours on Thanksgiving weekend. While there are plans to [...]
Too Much Advice!
Retail investors are experiencing information overload with lots of stock advice instead of focusing on their core investing strategies. What our client Jim wanted to know is “What’s your take on the market?” Jim had been watching from the sidelines for over a year now, with the majority of his long-term savings in a money [...]