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• The Federal Reserve

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 125
  (this is taken from the Mises YouTube channel) Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood “The Monster”. But to most Americans today (and pretty much everybody else for that matter), Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their ...
  7 hours ago

• The Structure Has Changed

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  Over the weekend, I ran across a short article at American.com , the site of The American Enterprise Institute . It was relevant, because my class had only recently discussed the types of unemployment and were about to delve into policy impact on economic problems. The piece, by Arnold Kling of George Mason ...
  9 hours ago

• Correlation and Causation

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  Economists Do It with Models had an excellent post on correlation and causation containing this great cartoon . I highly recommend the post and the cartoon.
  9 hours ago

• How a bank might undo your tracker mortgage

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 125
  ‘I have a tracker mortgage so I don’t care’ a man recently said to me when I was talking about the near definite increase in margins that we will start to see in mortgages as lenders seek margin and reprice risk. It was almost said in a smug manner, a kind of ‘yeah, times are hard but I have my tracker ...
  11 hours ago

• Making money from death, is it moral?

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 125
  Financial innovation has meant you can make money from many things which may or may not be considered morally correct, there are ’short sellers’ who make money when the price of a stock drops, some people consider that a bad thing, others feel that it is proof of an efficient market working correctly. Then you ...
  13 hours ago

• Teenagers prize-winning essay: The dumbest thing I ever did with my money.

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 575
  Im handing over this edition of the blog to a 17-year old high-school student who won the $5,000 prize this week for the Credit Education Week Essay Writing Contest. The topic is The Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Done With My Money, and What I Have Learned From It . Its by Kathryn (Katie) Kalmusky of Barrie, Ontario. ...
  3 days ago

• Podcast: Couples & Money

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 575
  For a lively 10-minute audio podcast about couples and money, click here . Its based on the various events  that occurred during this weeks  Credit Education Week and describes an upcoming column that will run this weekend. The interview is between Drew Hasselback, Associate Editor of FinancialPost.com [pictured ...
  3 days ago

• Dealing with arrears - a collectors tale

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 125
  Today’s post is by a guest writer who we cannot name, but we can tell you that this person works in the collections department of a major Irish lender, this person (or somebody like this person) is the one who will call you if you are in arrears on your mortgage. In this post we will reveal some of the inner ...
  3 days ago

• Something on the Light Side...to Make Us Think

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  Heres something light to start off the weekend. Thats one way to reform Social Security, although it sounds like the old idea of "we have children to secure our old age." I posted on some research about that recently.
  3 days ago

• John Hope Bryant on leading with love on Minnesota Public Radio

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 141
  John Hope Bryant, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, and author of bestselling book, LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass), was featured in this hour-long interview with Kerri Miller of MPR on "Leading with Love," and what leaders need to do post-crisis. Voted one of the ...
  3 days ago

• Banking Quote of the Day

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 141
  Speaking at a conference, Financial Services Roundtable President and CEO Steve Bartlett said that the future of banking was all about trust with consumers, legislators and shareholders. "Its all about trust," Mr. Bartlett said. Mr. Bartlett also called for better education in finance in the schools. "We want ...
  3 days ago

• LOVE LEADERSHIP Alert: Love Leadership again reaches Amazon.com Leadership Best Selling List

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 141
  On the heels of growing support for the new leadership philosophy of Love Leadership, the book by John Hope Bryant, entitled LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass) , once again joins the list of best selling leadership books on Amazon.com, landing at #34 today.  Lets keep the ...
  3 days ago

• 7 Common (Expensive) Financial Mistakes

  
  Cashflow Blog — Authority: 120
  Too many young adults who are already out of school have low levels of financial knowledge so we, as a society, need to come up with other alternatives. Employers could offer financial literacy programs or at least provide resources to help young people avoid some of these costly mistakes. Schools should offer basic ...
  3 days ago

• 7 Common (Expensive) Financial Mistakes

  
  Robert Kiyosaki Blog — Authority: 124
  Too many young adults who are already out of school have low levels of financial knowledge so we, as a society, need to come up with other alternatives. Employers could offer financial literacy programs or at least provide resources to help young people avoid some of these costly mistakes. Schools should offer basic ...
  3 days ago

• Success is Possible with the help of HOPE

  
  Operation HOPE Blog — Authority: 99
  Catrena Hunter is a shining example of a HOPE growing success story. She works as a clerical assistant for the D.C. Department of Corrections.  She is recently divorced and the proud mother of 3 children (1 girl and 2 boys). Catrena took advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit (ETIC), and was able to purchase ...
  3 days ago

• Supply, Demand, Price, Markets, Yadda-yadda

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  If you’re looking for some current issues to help illustrate your discussions about prices (how they are set, how they influence behavior, how they are influenced by behavior, how they act as a rationing mechanism, etc.) you could do worse than a couple of stories that have popped up over the past few weeks. You ...
  4 days ago

• SaaS Company Valuation Trends

  
  DevelopmentCorporate — Authority: 449
  How does the market value SaaS companies in comparison to other software companies?  Out of 25 different categories of software companies, pure play SaaS companies are the third most valuable category.  Not surprisingly, SaaS companies are faring well on exits as well.  In this post we will take a look at SaaS ...
  4 days ago

• Visa revises its financial literacy site

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 575
  Its appropriate that here in the middle of Credit Education Week , Visa Canada says it has relaunched its financial literacy web site: practicalmoneyskills.ca  The revamp makes the site more accessible to young adults, teachers and consumers contemplating such varied life events as saving for university or the ...
  5 days ago

• When Picketing Bankers in Chicago Also Means Financial illiteracy for You and Me

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 141
  As I was preparing to travel to Chicago earlier this week to speak at the American Bankers Association (ABA) annual conference as their luncheon keynote the following day, I heard of a series of explosive news stories describing pickets and picketers that had succeeded in disrupting the banker conference on the day ...
  5 days ago

• Follow-up to Job Counting

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  This  is a humorous follow-up to my post of a couple days ago on jobs created and saved. It is from one of The Wall Street Journal blogs and explains why counting jobs saved/created is very difficult and may even be impossible. This can also be filed under "an anecdote is not data, but the plural of anecdote ...
  5 days ago

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