Archive for the ‘article’ Category

The real reason you’re broke

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

If you’re constantly broke and can’t figure out why, the answer may be sitting in your driveway.

Read more at MSN

Help your kids grow rich

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

According to CNN Money, your adult children may need a hand charting a financial course. So buy them time with a planner.

Read more from CNN Money.

Three great ways to mess up your 401-k

Monday, August 27th, 2007

CNN Money has an excellent article on mistakes to avoid in managing your 401(k):

In a study of 100,000 401(k) participants, the company found that 70 percent gave up returns of one to three percentage points a year after inflation because of common and entirely avoidable blunders.

The cost: potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a career.

Read more at CNN Money

Lessons for the College-Bound

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Ben Stein provides tips for students starting college this year to ensure that their financial future is solid:

Finance is an endlessly fascinating topic. It involves history, intuition, logic, mathematics, and hope. But for most of us, our finances come from work and not from investments.

In turn, how we do at work is vitally affected by the kind of education we get — and most especially what we get out of our education. And what we get out of our education is very largely dependent on what we put into our education.

Read more on Yahoo.

Five Steps for Ditching Credit Card Debt

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

David Bach, “The Automatic Millionaire” has an excellent article on paying off credit card debt.

This article is a good companion to our study of paying off debt.

Notes from 8-11-2007

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

We had a very small turnout today, so we will save these notes for our next session on 8/25/2007.

Taking Care of Business - Ch 7

Also, see this article on Giving by Lee Jenkins.

You can purchase Taking Care of Business from our bookstore.