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• LOVE LEADERSHIP Alert: 5 Laws of Love Leadership on Fox Business News

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 134
  Here is a solid, interactive  interview on Fox Business News featuring the 5 Laws of Love Leadership, from my new CEO Read bestselling book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World, on Fox Business News.  I also speak to my new passionate focus around our 5 MILLION KIDS ( www.5mk.org ) focuses on ...
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• Spendthrift to Penny Pincher

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  From todays edition of WSJ , an article that examines how the current economy has impacted some basic psychology about spending vs. saving. It is subscriber content at this writing, but if you use your browser to search for the title of this post, you should be able to find an ungated version. If you cant find ...
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• Debtors Dilemma

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  The third article from The Wall Street Journal (free content at this writing) continues a series that Ive referenced recently. The article is about people who choose to walk away from their mortgages, even when they can still make the payments. What I found helpful was a side-bar about the big questions people ...
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• Debate about John Maynard Keynes

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  Finally, on yesterdays PBS Newshour , GMU economist Russ Roberts, host of the EconTalk podcasts, and Lord Robert Skidelsky, author of the three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, debated the relevance of Keynes in todays economy. Russ is also working on a rap about Keynes, apparently. The Newshour piece is ...
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• On Credit Repair and Debt Literacy

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 574
  What You Know Can Save You Green Credit repair is possible, but only if you increase your debt literacy. (Photo: flickr.com) Do you consider yourself to be financially literate? How about when it comes to debt – is your level of debt literacy high enough that concepts like credit repair are second nature ...
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• Treasury Secretary Geithner speaks to vital importance of financial literacy on yesterday

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 134
  I was honored to be in the room yesterday, at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in my role as vice chairman of the non-partisan U.S. Presidents Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, as Treasury Secretary Geithner gave these remarks linking financial literacy with the larger economy. I have also provided (below) ...
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• An Education Too Late

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 135
  I applaud the President’s plan to teach financial literacy in high school (although I’m sure our racist Rushpubliscum friends will figure it’s really some kind of Che Guevara Marxist indoctrination class.) I think that knowing how to keep a handle on your finances is a great thing.The thing is, the Republican ...
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• John Hope Bryant joins Secretary Geithner and Secretary Duncan for release of U.S. Presidents Advisory Council on Financial Literacy inspired report on financial capabilities

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 134
  In my capacity as vice chairman of the U.S. Presidents Advisory Council on Financial Literacy (Council), chairman of the Council Committee on the Under-Served, and of course founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, I was honored today to join Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, ...
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• Seeking Basic Financial Education

  
  Cashflow Blog — Authority: 120
  On a sunny autumn Friday, Bader Bahmad and fellow members of a financial education seminar at the Fort Washington Public Library branch were discussing rudimentary principles, such as the difference between needs and wants.In a run-down conference room on the library’s deserted second floor, they talked about saving ...
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• Seeking Basic Financial Education

  
  Robert Kiyosaki Blog — Authority: 122
  On a sunny autumn Friday, Bader Bahmad and fellow members of a financial education seminar at the Fort Washington Public Library branch were discussing rudimentary principles, such as the difference between needs and wants.In a run-down conference room on the library’s deserted second floor, they talked about saving ...
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• Challenges facing Pension Trustees

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 127
  This is a fascinating talk that was given by two of Ireland’s leading Trustee advisers to CFA Ireland (with sponsorship by KBC). It covers interesting points that are also of interest to general investment as well. Pension Trustees Talk - Whyms & Ryan talk to CFA Ireland from CFA Ireland on Vimeo .
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• Financial Football launched in schools (WIVB Buffalo)

  
  Debt Consolidation Blog — Authority: 144
  Financial Football is an NFL-themed, interactive, money management video game, targeted toward improving financial literacy among high school students.
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• A One-Armed Economist

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  This is why President Truman asked for a one-armed economist. And while this isnt a circumstance of one economist espousing both positions, its still an example of why many people dont trust economics or economists. On the one hand... and on the other... The message depends on what you hope to promote, I suspect. ...
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• Supply Chain Management Exits

  
  DevelopmentCorporate — Authority: 99
  In the past few weeks there have been several exits for private equity investors in the supply chain management space.  Using some baseball analogies, one could be categorized as a single, two would be considered doubles, and three are potential home runs, but no grand slams.  The companies that have achieved some ...
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• Elizabeth Warren Webcast On Failure to Fix the System

  
  Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog — Authority: 121
  Elizabeth Warren is the single person I most trust with understanding the problems of our current credit crisis and those who perpetuate the climate that created the crisis. Unfortunately those paying politicians are winning in their attempts to retain the current broken model. We can only hope we start ...
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• Mohamed El-Erian from PIMCO on US figures

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 127
  Mohamed El-Erian is second in command to Bill Gross at PIMCO, he is an excellent commentator and extremely insightful, well worth checking out.
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• R.I.P. Paul Samuelson

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  Paul Samuelson has passed away .  Im one of the few who never used the Samuelson text as an undergrad or grad.  But I heard him speak on a couple of occasions.  Economics has lost a great thinker and teacher. He was the second economist to win what would become known as the Nobel Prize for Economics .
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• Why Federal Money That Only Benefits Girl Scouts?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 486
  This week, U.S. Representative Jo Ann Emerson announced that she had slipped an earmark into a larger spending bill, H.R. 3288. Emerson’s earmark is for a third of a million dollars in financial support for a program for the Girl Scouts. That sounds nice, doesn’t it? Who doesn’t like little girls, after ...
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• Operation HOPE’s Mortgage Crisis Hotline Helps Restructure $290 Million in Mortgage Loans in 2009

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 134
       Operation HOPE’s Mortgage Crisis Hotline Helps Restructure $290 Million in Mortgage Loans in 2009 LOS ANGELES, CA - December 10, 2009 - With national unemployment rates at more than 10% and the effects of the housing crisis seeing millions of foreclosures across the nation, Operation ...
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• Economics in "My Fair Lady"

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  People sometimes dont believe me when I tell them I think about economics day and night. But here is an example even I think is unusual. I literally woke out of sound sleep the other night thinking “Economics in My Fair Lady ." I had been flipping through channels the other night thinking and noticed the movie ...
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