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  • The Financial Crisis: What We Can Do  By : Jeffrey Stoffer CFA, CFP
    It is times like this current crisis that Americans may need to stand up and show the world that we do not buckle or cower when things get tough. We may be afraid and unsure about the future, but we have tenacity and determination on our side. And we have freedom. Exercising our freedom to make choices is what we must now do.
  • Reduced or Cancelled Debt is Considered Taxable Income  By : Darrin Mish
    Until recently, it was so easy to accumulate credit. For the earlier part of the decade, many people could get loans and be approved for credit cards with relatively little difficulty. In effect, many people just extravagantly spend substantial amounts of money on anything. Without any real restrictions, they eventually spent much more than they could realistically pay off.
  • Why Everything Will Get Cheaper  By : Bob Munroe
    The last few years have seen a commodities boom; indeed, many say we have just seen the first stage in a long-term commodity super-cycle boom that still has 5-10 years to run. The result is that right now everyone is focussed on price inflation, as the cost of food, fuel and raw materials have pushed up the prices we pay in shops.
  • Will Shopping Save the Economy  By : Danny Schechter
    “In fact,” Robert Manning writes in his seminal book on credit cards, “with the ascendance of the post-industrial economy, bank credit cards have become an essential technological and financial tool for commercial transactions as well as an increasingly important macro-economic tool for U.S. Policy-makers.”
  • Calm Down: Economic "Bubbles" Are Nothing New  By : Jose D. Roncal And Jose N. Abbo
    In his book, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay wrote, “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
  • Origins of the Subprime Scandal  By : Danny Schechter
    When it began, subprime lending was even not a term that most people outside the financial markets understood. (By 2007, the American Dialect Society would call it the most used term of the year.) The Wikipedia would describe it this way:
  • Don’t Crash and Burn Like I Did! – Learn From my Lessons!  By : Chris Ball
    In don’t know about you, but I’m sure that an extra £2,000 to £20,000 per month would make a real difference to most people’s lives, just as it has to mine. In fact my life has changed beyond measure since I learned a few simple techniques needed to make this happen.
  • Dealing With Economic Fear  By : Julie Redstone
    Within this atmosphere, fear and anxiety are rampant, and it becomes even more important to find a basis for trust that does not depend upon external circumstance, but rather on a sense of hope and conviction that the present turbulence will lead to a positive outcome.
  • How the Banking Business Hours Have Gone From 37 to 24/7!  By : Julian Davidson
    With technological advances at their disposal, banks have evolved from being merely a repository where customers entrust their hard earned cash for safe keeping into multi-functional institutions that automates their business while continuing to seek ways to simplify their customers’ own business operations or personal banking needs and requirements.
  • A Quick Primer To Tax Free Returns  By : Gen Wright
    Tax free investment instruments are used by investors to take advantage of tax exemptions. Investment gains from these instruments, although subjected to federal taxes, are exempted from State and Local taxes. Different States have different tax rates. For States with high local taxes, it makes more sense to consider investing in the different types of tax free investment instruments.
  • Financial Crisis: How Did We Get Here?  By : Jeffrey Stoffer CFA, CFP
    But ingredients were coming together in the financial markets that made for a bad recipe. Too many people were getting loans that they would likely never be able to repay. The big financial institutions were lending more and more money to questionable borrowers as a route to quick profits. They could "package" these mortgages and sell them to someone else, and they were sold, across the globe.
  • 5 Tips to Cope With the Wall Street Crisis  By : Fern LaRocca
    Money market mutual fund accounts are considered a safe place to keep your cash and they have always lived up to that in the past even though they are not guaranteed by the FDIC. The Reserve Prime Money Market Fund broke the buck this week-meaning that its net asset value fell below $1.00 a share. Most institutions will come out of pocket to keep their money market accounts from breaking the buck because it would hurt their brand and their business too much if they had a money market fund failure.
  • How to Decrease Driving  By : Samantha Asher
    There are many things you can do to save gas. Taking care of your car is important including checking and changing your oil, changing your air filter, keeping your tires properly inflated, and simply driving so that you aren't damaging your engine, breaks, etc. You can also save on gas by driving more efficiently. Instead of revving the engine, accelerating quickly, or breaking often, we can reduce these gas guzzling practices to conserve gas.
  • Employ The Best Tax Lawyer  By : Darrin Mish
    Experience is one of the most important characteristics to search for in an IRS tax attorney. Unless you are able to effectively use knowledge, it is not always useful. Experience allows a person to maximize the application of their knowledge. Tax lawyers with experience know the ins and outs of the industry and have worked in it for a substantial amount of time. When requiring help dealing with IRS issues, this is the kind of experience you should look for.
  • Protection From Identity Theft  By : Adrian Kinley
    Becoming a business owner means taking on a whole new set of responsibilities. One of the largest, but most frequently overlooked, is that of customer data safety. Your customers trust you with their credit card numbers, home addresses, perhaps even social security numbers and mother's maiden name. Thieves know this. Owning a home-based business makes you an especially attractive target for burglary as the thief, in effect, can rob two places for the price of one-your home and your business.
  • About the Donald Trump Success Story in Real Estate Investing  By : Dr Green
    To be sure, according to Donald Trump, with mortgage rates not very high at present and with tax laws leaning towards investing in real estate, there is no time like the present to profit from the gold rush in real estate investing that is taking place right now. In addition, he also points out that as many as twelve million homes are transacted in any given year which means that if you know the real estate investing business well enough there is sure to be many lucrative deals on offer that will come your way and from which you too can earn a decent amount of money.
  • The Dangers of Interest Only Mortgages  By : Kevin Maher
    Another lady decided to refinance to consolidate some debt. Later, after running up some more debt due to family illnesses in another country which required time off the job and costly travel, she added a home equity line of credit. Both loans offered the interest only option. Again it was never explained how these loans work so she has spent several years thinking she had a nice low payment without realizing that her principle was not going anywhere.
  • Don't Lose The Lessons Of A Difficult Financial Time  By : J Suffie
    Some people purchased houses they can no longer afford because of adjustable rate mortgages or home values dropping. Others have lost their jobs or have been facing difficult life circumstances such as divorce or a death in the family. Sometimes a house that was once easily affordable suddenly becomes impossible due to circumstances that you didn't see coming, or are beyond your control.
  • Consumer Debt, Bad For America  By : Jim Kesel
    Many people feel there is nothing wrong with high levels of consumer debt and some leading economists, business and political leaders actually have encouraged it. However the people that are encouraging excessive debt appear to profit the most from it. This conflict of interest means there is a genuine lack of credibility to these reports.
  • Priorities Within The Financial World  By : Greg Ellis
    This notion is evident in almost every aspect of our society today. This common truth is particularly factual within the convenience food market. Services within this sector generate a substantial amount of their profits because their business models are based on providing products with speed. For example, dial up internet access is now viewed as a dated and almost outmoded resource. Because society continually seeks faster and faster internet access, broadband is now seen as a vital and dominant form of connection necessary.
  • Is Your Custodial Bank Or Depository Bank Secured?  By : Markus Skupeika
    And there is no doubt that self directed IRAs can offer you the best solution to grow your money as per your requirements. This will open up a lot of investment options that you could not have accessed otherwise.
  • How To Live Through A Crash And Benefit From A Recession  By : Ricky Schmidt
    The difference between the drop in 1987 and many other market drop was the rapid recovery. It didn’t even take a year. By comparison, when the market dropped 86% of its value from 1929 through 1932, it took 12 years to get back to break even. And when the bear market that began in 2000 cut the market in half, it took until 2003 before the recovery started.
  • The Banking World Is Changing  By : Ajeet Khurana
    People could pay for things with money they didn't actually have and "float" the check a couple days before it actually hit their account. Many people were able to get out of financial binds this way but that is no longer the case.
  • Second Passports - A Guide Of What Not To Do  By : Neil Ebsworth
    One of the pitfalls in this has been though, that through the proliferation of information and services provided on the internet, the scammers are out in force. Their aim, to take your money and run. Due to the secret nature of many of the enquiries made, little or no recourse can be found once the money is lost.
  • Consider Protecting Your Loan With Payment Protection  By : Simon Burgess
    While, if this should happen, your circumstances would change, you would still be expected to pay all your commitments. This would perhaps mean struggling to find the money needed or raiding your savings account and eventually depleting your funds. A better alternative - and one which can give peace of mind - is to consider protection insurance.
  • Success Breaking Decisions  By : Mark Walters
    Most business owners make this decision on whether they have the money to spend. Basing business decisions on whether ‘I can afford it’ is one of the biggest success breaking decisions a business owner should ever make. If the business needs some extra money, find a way to find it.
  • Don  By : Mark Walters
    WASHINGTON, D.C. - Eric Messier was permanently barred by the federal court from marketing a tax fraud scheme. According to the Department’s Tax Division, Messier advised customers that, by using a “corporation sole,” they could avoid paying federal income tax. Messier conducted his business through the Liberty Fellowship and the Liberty Holdings Trust.
  • Who Are Venture Capitalists?  By : Jene Pedder
    There is usually a five year lock up on Venture Capital investments, this means the Venture Capitalist or the business they are helping to fund cannot get out of the deal until the five years is up, sometimes this may be longer depending on the agreed business plan. They also charge management fees and incentive fees as well as taking a good sized share of your business. Unlike Business Angels, Venture Capitalists like to have a director or management role within the company to discuss the running of the business as well as keeping a close eye on their investment making sure the business succeeds.
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