Are you seeking work? If you type, provide secretarial services, can market a Web site or shoot a great photograph, the following listings may help you find some cash for your skills. You can get paid for who and what you know as well. [click to continue…]
Did we hear you correctly? You don’t have a blog or a personal Web site? How do you expect to make money online?
You might be happy to learn that you don’t need a blog or personal Web site to make money online or to work from home. Any one of the options listed below can show you how to make money online and how to run a successful business at home. The only requirement is a high-speed Internet connection, as you want to be able to work as quickly as possible. You want a good return on your time investment, after all… [click to continue…]
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The idea of a “free land from the government” meme is one I hear once every couple of years. Usually I file the idea under the “tin foil hat” category in my mind, along with the list of other crazy schemes I cook up, whose extent perhaps only Jimbo is aware of. Anyway, I encountered a reference to getting free land once again in an article at GetRichSlowly, and thought, why not? Why is it so implausible that Uncle Sam would give you free land? God knows he hands out enough other entitlements. So I turned to my old trusty friend, T3h G00gl3s, to find out the truth once and for all if one can actually get government land for free. [click to continue…]
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Welcome to another edition of From the Q, written by industry insider Q. Our man Q has worked in the financial services industry for over 30 years, and holds nothing back. His identity remains a secret.
Kudos to Jon Stewart for overwhelming Jim Cramer to the point of speechlessness in their joint appearance on the Daily Show Thursday. It made for great television. But, let’s not forget, that’s all it was, great television. The economic crisis wasn’t solved, and CNBC isn’t going to change its stripes.
As impressive as Stewart was, he seems misguided on two points. [click to continue…]
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Ponzi. Such a fun word to say, isn’t it? It’s not however fun to be a Ponzi victim: Madoff’s 1,000+ victims have lost over $60 billion. Certainly it’s not a subject of humor, if your pension invested with Madoff, or if you donated to a charity that invested with him, or if you personally invested in what turned out to be a scam. Still, we can all get a tiny bit of consolation that countless people have been swindled in similar schemes since the invention of currency. Let’s take a look at the Madoff scheme, then dig into the definition and history of Ponzi schemes, so we can figure out how to better protect ourselves in the future. [click to continue…]
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Welcome to another edition of From the Q, written by industry insider Q. Our man Q has worked in the financial services industry for over 30 years, and holds nothing back. His identity remains a secret.
In the old days, say 1965, if you were well heeled and sufficiently inclined you might have what would be known as a stock broker. (If you were truly wealthy, say Rockefeller rich, you would likely have a private banker.) Your stock broker would go by the slightly awkward title of Customer’s Man or maybe Registered Representative. Nobody referred to brokers as advisors. Brokers then, as now, were commissioned sales people, and back then nobody made any apologies for that fact. Under this brokerage model, investors paid for advice and guidance indirectly by paying commissions when they made transactions. [click to continue…]
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As the price of gold remains solidly above $900 an ounce (it even topped $1,000 not too long ago), more people are asking this question: Whatever happened to the gold standard? Others are more concerned about the fact that we don’t actually have something physical to back up our currency. And why did we move away from using gold to guarantee our money anyway? These are daunting questions without easy answers. But if you’re interested, here are 25 places — in no particular order — that you can go to find out a little more about the rise and fall of the gold standard. [click to continue…]
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Financial portals have been around a long time, and get a ton of traffic. Despite that, it seems like they’re the forgotten children of their parent companies, getting less attention and TLC than they should. You might have thought Google’s 2006 entry into the space would have threatened Yahoo! Finance into upping their game, but judging by the traffic graph (Google Finance leveled off after a small initial bang), Yahoo! probably figured there was no reason to be threatened. A year or so later, the “unthinkable” happened: AOL Money relaunched with a kick-butt product, and due to its high quality user experience it took over the top spot. [click to continue…]
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By now, you’ve probably heard some or all of these phrases: frozen credit markets, mortgage backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps. But just what the heck do they mean? How did we get into this global economic mess anyway? Well, I’m in no mood to try to explain it to you myself, especially since several others have already gone to great lengths to produce simple guides to understanding the crisis. Here are my five favorite “Recession for Dummies” primers: [click to continue…]
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What is it about wealth that fascinates us? Some think of the televisions, jewelry, and Ferraris that great wealth can buy. Perhaps others think of a purchasing a billionaire’s mansion. Still others may find the appeal of money in the women that it can help attract. But here at Bankling (where finance geeks reign supreme), when I think of vast wealth, I have dreams of investing, compound interest, and the Rule of 72. Whatever your ideas come to mind when pondering great wealth, these lists are sure to entertain (and perhaps inspire). [click to continue…]
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