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There are two commonly held views as to why money has value: 1. People are willing to accept it as payment (social convention) 2. The government says so (government decree) The first reason, that being that money has value because people are willin...
I have a growing concern regarding paper money. That concern is what defines a “dollar”. A dictionary definition describes a dollar as being a basic monetary unit equivalent to 100 cents. Further investigation reveals that a cent is equal to 1/100th o...
Studies in neuroscience have shown that while the human brain excels at pattern matching, it does not distinguish well between perceived patterns and actual patterns. From a strictly evolutionary perspective, if you see a pattern that might indicate that ...
“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” (John Maynard Keynes, chief architect of our present-day fiat money system) The Mission Statement of the...
The most common measures are named M0 (narrowest), M1, M2, and M3 (broadest). M0 is the starting point for the concept of money supply. It is the total of all electronic, credit-based deposit balances in bank (and other financial) accounts plus all...
Now is a great time to make it a habit to manage your resources instead of your resources managing you. What is meant by that when we are stating that "Your money manages you"? Here is a well known example: "There is more month than there is money so...
The US Congress passed a law that established a set of uniform laws to govern how bankruptcy was handled. These laws were placed under a system called the bankruptcy code. In this code there are chapters that pertain to various issues in bankruptcy. One s...
In an attempt to increase my family's monthly income, I started selling on eBay. I found that eBay can be an extremely exciting thing and an extremely frustrating thing all at the same time. eBay Fees. When I first started selling on eBay I was not p...
People who are discharged bankrupts are usually required to apply for an adverse credit mortgage when searching for a mortgage to fund the purchase of their property. Bankruptcy was once the domain of unsuccessful self-employed business people and sole...
Additional Hidden Financial Secrets of the Elite Wealthy, Rich and Famous - Part III. In this chapter, let’s talk about what you would really need to retire when your time comes? Many baby boomers who have a retirement plan in place will retire with...
When you are doing individual fundraising for a personal cause such as breast cancer research, multiple sclerosis, AIDS charity, or even personal medical expenses, you need proven fundraising ideas. Here are six ideas for individual fundraisers. Dinner...
The small investor has been told that options are risky and has been steered away from options as an investment tool. However, stock options are routinely used by large institutional investors and wealthy individuals who have achieved, options mastery, t...
Forex, ie foreign exchange market has become very popular due to its immense size, liquidity, currencies moving in strong trends plus, an easy online access, relatively low starting capital and a big leverage. All this is very attractive to many sorts...
“The Affiliate Allstar - Is It Just Another Scam? With all the get rich quick scams flooding the internet lately, it can be difficult to find a legitimate way to make money. And so when I picked up this new course by Aaron Johnson, a former janitor t...
Pension Release is a process available in the UK to those over the age of 50 who have funds locked up in pension schemes which would not normally be available to them until retirement/ maturation of the policy. Grove FP are an independent finan...