America Needs A Good Dose Of Economic Castor Oil
Posted on October 24, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | Leave a Comment
The stock market is in chaos, banks and insurance companies are failing and there’s plenty of talk about sub-prime loans and mortgage backed securities. With talk about derivatives, libor, GSEs, and more, who can expect average working people to know what’s going on? Every time you turn on the television news or pick up a [...]
Read More..>>Control Your Future By Taking Charge Of Today
Posted on October 19, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | Leave a Comment
For nearly three years, I have been filling this space with article after article about saving, investing, budgeting, getting out of debt plus other money management ideas. Those who have read and followed the tips I have offered are probably breathing a sigh of relief right now as we struggle with an economic slowdown and [...]
Read More..>>Lack Of Education Has Contributed To Economic Woes
Posted on October 12, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | Leave a Comment
For weeks, I’ve been writing about the failure of our educational system to teach financial literacy. Why has no one has mentioned the possibility that today’s financial crisis might have been averted if basic money management had been part of our school curriculums? Anyone with minimal financial literacy should have been able to see the [...]
Read More..>>Ignorance And Greed Have Caused Today’s Financial Woes
Posted on October 3, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | Leave a Comment
As we watch the financial industry implode, the problems can be traced to the dangerous combination of ignorance and greed. Like lemmings rushing into the sea, financially illiterate individuals flocked to speculate in real estate without a clue that the bubble was about to burst. They were encouraged by predatory lending practices rooted firmly in [...]
Read More..>>Refine Personal Financial Literacy During High School
Posted on October 1, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | 1 Comment
This is the last in a three part series about using the Magic Money Game to teach Personal Financial Literacy. In the first two parts I discussed ways to engage elementary and middle school students in learning exercises designed to teach good money management skills. Now, we come to the hard part…high school. This is [...]
Read More..>>Continuing Personal Financial Literacy Into Middle School
Posted on September 29, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | 1 Comment
Last week, I discussed a game I first introduced two years ago; one that parents could use to teach their children financial responsibility. In that article, I suggested that the state fund a pilot program to explore incorporating the Magic Money Game into the school curriculum for all students. With a mandate from the legislature [...]
Read More..>>Let’s Turn Personal Financial Literacy Into A Fun Game
Posted on September 14, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | Leave a Comment
Two years ago, I wrote about how parents spend a great deal of time during their children’s formative years teaching them how to feed and dress themselves, potty training them, and becoming excited when they take their first steps and speak their first words. Then around age five, when the children enter kindergarten, many parents [...]
Read More..>>Another Concept Not Being Taught In Our Public Schools
Posted on September 5, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | 1 Comment
We’re all born and we all die! These are things we all have in common whether we’re heading up a Fortune 100 company or broke and unemployed. Getting from birth to death has a cost to it. Granted that cost may be higher for some than others, but it’s a fact that our journey through [...]
Read More..>>Why Little Johnny and Mary Struggle Financially As Adults
Posted on August 29, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | 1 Comment
Another school year has begun and millions of young people will sit through classes that focus on how to get a job, but fail to teach them how to handle the money they will earn. As a result the vast majority will go through life struggling to make payments on debts they probably wouldn’t have [...]
Read More..>>Trips To Expensive Destinations Can Bust Your Budget
Posted on August 22, 2008 - Filed Under Success Tips Articles | 1 Comment
Throughout my life, I have enjoyed watching people and learned a great deal by observing their actions. Last week I had a great learning opportunity. I spent most of the week attending the National Speakers Association’s annual convention in New York City and believe me, there are plenty of people to watch. The convention was [...]
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