Take the Challenge

 
 
 
I finally got the social network I have been working on up and running.  Please visit the site  www.my5k5k.com sign up and begin the challenge today.  Come back here and give me feed back to let me know what you think of the site.

Time Value of Money

Would you pay $14,000 over the next six years so you could have $930,000 at retirement age?  This seems like a simple enough question to answer, but the reality is few people will. This past week I have been studying the time value of money and it has been grueling learning the mathematical equations to solve the various [...]

Putting Financial Education to Work

My last post I spoke of the beginnings of my financial education.  The most important part of any education is what you do with what you have learned.  My experience of spending more than I made, using credit to finance my wants, and allowing the perceptions of others to influence my purchasing decisions contributed to my [...]

The Beginnings of my finanical education and the last taboo

Please forgive the long post.  There is about an eight year time period I try to cover in a few paragraphs.
 
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am currently working on my certificate in financial planning to become a Certified Financial Planner.  My interest in financial planning did not come about by an early [...]

Positive Feedback is Encouraging

I spread the word about my blog when I became very discouraged with our current national economic blunder and our lack of regulation in the finacial industry.  I have been a “closet blogger” not letting any of my family or friends know that I had started a blog, in fear that no one would read [...]

Housing Crisis Orchestrated By Our Government Paid For By Its’ People

I have tried to remain positive in light of all the doom and gloom news regarding the financial sector.  I know the media would rather report the negative aspect of all things, because it generates the highest ratings.  Where are the days of news being true journalism?  The time when a story broke and a group [...]