Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Lessons on life and love are not the only things that you can learn from children’s stories. In fact, you may learn a great deal about investments by simply reading about house-building pigs and smart-talking goats. Here are two important investment lessons that you may learn from The Three Little Pigs and The Three Billy [...]

Now is not the best time to make poor financial decisions. The world economy is performing poorly and the product prices are increasing rapidly. It’s more difficult, however, to cope with the current financial practice if you don’t have a stable source of income. Being unemployed at this time of recession is one of the [...]

The information that you should never reveal to anyone else is the Personal Identification Number (PIN) on your ATM card. Exposing your ATM card’s PIN to other people increases your vulnerability to theft. Here are some number combinations that you don’t need to consider when choosing a PIN for your ATM card
Your birthday
Do you think [...]

Chris Gardner is a self-made millionaire. He is not only the CEO of the stockbrokerage firm Gardner Rich, but he is also the protagonist in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness (yes, the one with Will Smith in it). His journey toward financial success taught Chris Gardner a lot of important lessons, the most popular [...]

The number of people who have been victimized by credit card scams can actually match the number of tickets that have been sold by The Dark Knight. In fact, credit card scams are so ubiquitous that I have to write this entry to give you some tips on how to protect yourself from the possibility [...]

Let’s face it: ATM has become a necessity. In fact, it’s hard to spend an entire week without ever paying a quick visit to a nearby ATM booth. Withdrawing cash from an ATM, however, must always be done with extra caution. After all, many people have lost their ATM cards, their money, and their PIN [...]

everything you worked hard for, right? Unfortunately, paying taxes is compulsory. You might even go to jail if you insisted to keep all your earnings to yourself. Instead of coming up with a new strategy to save yourself from paying off a single penny to the IRS, just put your frustrations on taxes to good [...]

Do you know how to tell apart genuine banknotes from counterfeit ones? Well, you should. Counterfeit money is currently circulating all over the country and you have to be careful enough to prevent it from ever visiting your purse. Here are some of the things that might help you distinguish the difference between genuine banknotes [...]

The science of managing finances is something that everybody should know. In fact, the money-making and money-saving lessons that stay with people all through their lives are not those which they learned from a scary math professor or an impressive business tycoon. The financial lessons that stick to people are usually those that they learned [...]

John Rodrigues has a goal: to become a millionaire by the time he reaches the age of forty. Nothing unusual about it, right? Besides, everybody wants to be a millionaire before or after they turn forty. Unlike other millionaire-wannabes, however, John is actually on his way to reaching his goal. With only 13 years away [...]