The United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing offers fun online games that will give you an opportunity to talk about money with your kids and help them learn while enjoying the games. Together you can design a personal “family bill” and forward to friends and relatives. Play trivia games or try to catch a [...]
Where to Look if You’re Facing Foreclosure
When the finance company providing your mortgage threatens closure on you, then its time for action. Being evicted from your home and losing everything you have put into it is and extremely stressful experience that may well affect the rest of your life. From time to time we here at Financing Wealth get asked to [...]
Books Change Lives
The most solid route to wealth is by acquiring financial knowledge. Everything that you can learn about money aids in your quest for financial independence. The following books are recommended reading on your path: The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Accounting by Robert L. Dixon and Harold E. Arnett Own Your Own Corporation by Garrett Sutton [...]
Choosing a Financial Planner
If you are in the market for a financial planner, here are ten questions that you may want to ask your candidates before you choose an advisor. How many years have you been in business? Can you describe your typical clients? What is your ratio of support staff to professional staff? What is your reputation [...]
The History of Money
The History Channel includes a fascinating section on the history of money. You can see videos of the production of currency, the Gold Rush, and Black Tuesday. Be sure to check out the timeline for little-known money facts and my personal favorite, coined phrases. “A fool and his money are soon parted.” ~A Defense of Government, [...]
Fun With Finance
If you think finance is rather dry and boring, check out Feed the Pig and enjoy the videos. These hilarious skits focus on interruptions in spending and may cause you to consider a few of your own spending patterns. Are they perhaps a bit, errr, greedy? Focused on the short term? The U.S. Commerce Department [...]
Manage Your Money in the New Year
Exchange Traded Funds to Make a Splash in 2007
How 401Ks Work?
Contributing to a 401K plan but not sure how it works? Well, the great site HowStuffWorks.com has a great “how article” on How 401(k) Plans Work. The site, known popularly as a great book from the early 90′s has thousands of articles on how everything works, not just those mechanical devices you always wondered about [...]
