February 4, 2012

Is the Housing Market Slowing

No doubt the housing market has stalled. If it wasn’t willed by media and the public with all the talk of a housing bubble then maybe the interest rates rising has something to do with it. The National Association of Realtors has reported that homes for sale jumped in April by 37 percent. That means [...]

Feds Raise Key Interest Rate in June

The Federal Reserve raised the interest rate to 5.25 %, the highest it’s been in 5 years on Thursday after the end of a two day meeting in Washington. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other policymakers talked about the need to raise interests rates this time around to fend off the continued inflation that is [...]

What is Short Selling?

Short Selling is the opposite of buying long. When you buy long, or what has turned into just buying shares, you buy for the long term, usually above the actual value of the stock in the thought that the value of the company will increase over time and increase the value of your long term [...]

Yahoo Shows 10 Ways to Save $500

How do you overcome the rise in gas, the rise in prices at the supermarket, and the shrinking of your pocketbook. You can do a lot of things related to living below your means but what are they and how can they really help. Yahoo Finance just posted an article called 10 Ways to Save [...]

Zillow.com Helps Determine Your Value


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For some their home is and will be their largest “asset” they own or will ever own. Knowing the value of you home can be key to knowing what type of credit is available to you. Often finding the value of your home is really, really, really, tough and you’ll end up paying an appraiser [...]

Bill Gates Built The Ultimate Business System

Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, Inc (MSFT), has built the ultimate business system. For those of you wanting financial freedom take note. As junior at Harvard University he and childhood friend took a an already developed technology and built it into the world’s number 1 operating system. Number 1 by a long shot, [...]

What to do in a Down Market

Commodities are down, stocks are down, the housing market is down. Sell, Sell, Sell!? Wrong. Don’t jump on the bandwagon of sellers and get rid of everything you have just because it’s the in thing to do. The stock market, although driven in the long term mainly by financial facts like earnings and earnings growth [...]

Gold Dips below $600

Gold dips back below $600 for the first time in over a month. Silver is following suit dropping back below $11 an ounce. Both are current spot price via the London exchange. For those of you following precious metals you may want to check out The Bullion Desk. They have great news and great quotes [...]

Where Does Your Money Come From?

Hopefully your money comes originally from a certified mint. But seriously, how do you earn most of your income? Is it from a job, stock earnings, selling things on eBay, trust fund, charity, a business? Where? If you are at all familiar with the Rich Dad series of books then you know about his Cashflow [...]

Strategies in a Down Market

The market is going down no matter how bad you want to deny it. Commodities are selling of, gold in particular, stocks are moving back below 11,000 and the housing market is seeing it’s share of downturn. Most people who look at this type of market see nothing but bad news and want to get [...]