Yielding Wealth | Personal Finance

November 14th, 2008

Friday Fun Video: Hitler’s Housing Downfall

This video takes a situation faced by many (foreclosure + decimation of retirement investments) and makes it funny.
Happy Friday!

Tags: foreclosure, Friday Fun Video, happy friday, housing, investments, Retirement, retirement-investments

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September 12th, 2008

Savers Losing Out in the Current Economy

Are you into saving money? And I mean really saving it. You know, by setting it aside in some sort of an account (be it investment or high yield savings or CD). Do you do that? I do, and I really felt the truth behind a recent BusinessWeek article about how savers are basically getting […]

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June 20th, 2008

Personal Finance Tip #20: Diversify Your Investments

Earlier in today’s Blog Off, I mentioned investing as a personal finance tip. This one is related to it:
Diversify your investments.
You don’t want all your eggs in one basket. Indeed, it is very important for you to have a reasonably diverse investment portfolio so that you can better handle things when one of your investments […]

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April 17th, 2008

5 Ways to Build Personal Wealth

This is a guest post by Heather Johnson.
You’ve heard the success stories probably more times than you can count. People always talk about how they built their own personal wealth and had excellent success in their financial endeavors. Unfortunately, no matter what people say, there’s no perfect way to build wealth, […]

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November 28th, 2007

Ask the Piggy Bank: What are CDOs?

Yesterday’s post on the financial sector prompted a comment about some of the confusion coming from financial sector jargon, more specifically, CDOs. Indeed, Jean’s comment was not the only question I received about these products that can sap a financial sector company of earnings when they head south. So I thought it would be a […]

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