Suze Orman Shares Investing Common Sense With Women & Money

By Lisa Manyon Women & Money ~ Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny Money is a topic you either embrace or avoid. Orman’s book delivers straight talk on investing for women and building individual wealth. Personally I’ve always known just enough about investing to put some money away each month and I rely on [...]

Retiring? What to do with your 401(k)

Retiring? What to do with your 401(k) By Walter Updegrave From CNN Money (Money Magazine) – Question: When I retire, should leave my money in my company’s 401(k) or roll it into an IRA? –Mark, Plymouth, Minnesota Answer: I hate to start with that overused phrase “it depends.” But the fact is that the right answer really [...]

For small businesses, loans are plentiful as long as they’re plastic-backed

For small businesses, loans are plentiful as long as they’re plastic-backed By Paul Smalera From CNN Money FORTUNE — On Monday Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took up the growing issue of lack of lending to small businesses by banks, and the havoc it’s causing in the economy. Lending to small businesses contracted by $40 [...]

How to Improve Your Financial IQ

How to Improve Your Financial IQ Stop avoiding your numbers–there’s nothing to be afraid of and everything to gain. By Peri Pakroo From Entrepreneur.com Like many things we know are good for us–exercise, getting a good night’s sleep, laying off the French fries–keeping careful track of yourbusiness‘s finances is one of those must-do tasks to [...]

Video: Wise Words from Financier Jim Rogers

Wise Words from Financier Jim Rogers From Fortune Online

What’s a double dip? No one really knows.

What’s a double dip? No one really knows. By Nin-Hai Tseng From CNN Money FORTUNE — Here’s what we know about double dip recessions: The economy shrinks. Then grows. Then shrinks again. It’s essentially a hilly economic recovery (or battle) where the ebb and flow of growth strangely takes a W-shape. Beyond that, no one [...]

Teach Your Teen Paycheck Savvy

Teach Your Teen Paycheck Savvy By Linda Stern From CNN Money Magazine Congrats! Your kid landed a summer job in this tight, tight economy. Now, of course, he’ll have that $7.25 an hour burning a hole in his pocket. That’s where you step in: “Parents have a real opportunity to help teens learn to manage [...]

The 12 Best Sources of Business Financing

The 12 Best Sources of Business Financing Precious capital remains hard to find for small businesses. Here are the most likely sources, from least attractive to most. By Dileep Rao Ph.D. From Forbes.com Where and how you finance an operation can be the difference between dominance and failure. All money may sound like good money [...]

Money-Smart Kids: No money for money education?

Money-Smart Kids No money for money education? By Tom Henske From Westport News Online Last week — while reading Karen Blumenthal‘s article in The Wall Street Journal, “Is There a Cure for Financial Literacy?” — I was reminded of one of the impediments to improving financial literacy in our country. Citing data from The Jumpstart Coalition, Karen reminds [...]

4 Tips for Raising Funds in a Harsh Environment

4 Tips for Raising Funds in a Harsh Environment Lessons from an entrepreneur who raised $6.25 million in venture capital funding By Zephrin Lasker From Entrepreneur Magazine Online While capital markets continue their well-documented convulsions, that doesn’t mean that dedicated entrepreneurs must shelve their startup dreams next to the past few years IPO filings. With [...]

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