I’ve seen it hundreds of times in business: someone has started a new venture and thrown every dime he can scrape up into it. But it’s not successful. So the entrepreneur goes looking for more money, more cash that he can use to make the business work. In some cases, that approach can work out. […]
When the stock market makes people nervous, they tend to turn to alternative ways of making money. Alternative investments provide interesting ways to make money when you are concerned about stock market volatility. However, it is important to be careful of these alternative investments. After all, some of them can prove to be even riskier […]
It wasn’t that long ago when a career would begin and end in the same workplace. For our parents and grandparents, staying with one job throughout the working years would not only foster a sense of job security, but it would also ensure a retirement. Those days are gone however, and with it the ability […]
Unfortunately, in life we experience setbacks. This is as true in finances as it is in anything else. I know that sometimes it seems as though it’s one thing after another. We had a flood in our basement just before Christmas, then 4th quarter estimated taxes for 2010 were due in January, and of course, […]
April is Financial Literacy Month, and that means it’s a great time to get back to financial basics. You might be surprised, as you look at your financial habits, to find out how many are bad. Sometimes we get too complacent in our finances, and let things slide a little bit. Here are some things […]
One of the more interesting questions I was asked recently had to do with dividend stocks. My brother was trying to figure out what to do with money withdrawn from a mutual fund. He asked about dividend stocks because he had heard that they offer a reasonably stable return — plus cash pay outs. I […]
