The following is a guest post by Jesse Michelsen of PFFirewall.com. Education is important to me. In fact, I don’t ever plan to stop learning, regardless of the subject matters that come and go in my life. Knowledge really is power and without knowing, how can you go forward and do? That’s why ever since [...]
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Importance of Financial Literacy Education – Get Some Here with Ramit Sethi’s Book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich
62 Comments Guest on Dec 15th 2010
Have you been suffering from a lack of creative juices? Are you looking for a solution to a problem, but can’t seem to think of any ideas? Jim Randel’s The Skinny on Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box might be just the book you need to help you get out of your morass. How to think [...]
17 Comments Kevin on Dec 6th 2010
The Great Credit Contraction The Great Credit Contraction is a book by Trace Mayer, J.D. which covers the credit contraction of our times, in the face of quantitative easing and ongoing efforts to reflate. This book gets straight to the point, which can be a little intimidating at first glance. The book deals with the [...]
21 Comments Kevin on Dec 2nd 2010
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The Skinny on Real Estate Investing: A Book Review
Does anyone remember the real estate euphoria from a few years back? While people are still trying to pick up the pieces down south, the euphoria hasn’t really gone away up here in Canada, though the dimmer switch has perhaps been turned down somewhat. In The Skinny on Real Estate Investing: An Introduction to the [...]
17 Comments Kevin on Nov 25th 2010
Credit cards… they are little pieces of plastic that everyone loves to hate, but everyone loves to use. They are so convenient, and along with that convenience sometimes comes trouble. We all know someone who has used one credit card to pay off others, and ended up in a spiral of debt. They were misled [...]
31 Comments Kevin on Nov 4th 2010
Economics In One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt: A book review Have you ever been confused when politicians speak of tariffs and subsidies? Does talk of inflation make your head spin? Henry Hazlitt helps clear away the fog of economics in his book, “Economics In One Lesson” (Amazon affiliate link). The one lesson is very simple: It’s [...]
23 Comments Kevin on Oct 26th 2010
I recently read Barbara Friedberg’s 20 Minute Guide to Investing. This guide is an intro to investing that covers the basics of what you need to know, before you start investing. Barbara covers many topics, including the following: What should I do before I invest? Why should I invest? What is investing, and what are [...]
15 Comments Kevin on Oct 13th 2010
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Becoming a Rich Man (or Woman)
Today, it is time to wrap up my review of “The Richest Man in Babylon” (Amazon affiliate link to the revised edition). Previously, I talked about getting started on the path to wealth, and seven wealth building strategies which will help you out on that path. The lessons taught in these posts are expounded in [...]
14 Comments Kevin on May 3rd 2010
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Getting Started on the Path to Wealth
In this world, some of us are rich, some of us not so rich. Some of us are lucky enough to be born into wealth, but most of us have to work for it. However, even if you are not currently wealthy, it is always possible for you to get started on the road to [...]
6 Comments Kevin on Apr 13th 2010
