For the most part, financial planning and money in general is pretty serious and heavy stuff to deal with. So when there’s an opportunity to take a break and laugh, why not, right? Check out this YouTube video, Financial Planning 101:
For the most part, financial planning and money in general is pretty serious and heavy stuff to deal with. So when there’s an opportunity to take a break and laugh, why not, right? Check out this YouTube video, Financial Planning 101:
“He who knows the universe and does not know himself knows nothing”-Jean De La Fontaine, 1679
15 Best Performing Stock Markets in 2009 (local currency terms)*
As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group. He penned an op-ed piece today, "Restoring Faith in Financial Markets" offering his usual common sense wisdom on the state of the investing world in 2010. Definitely worth the read,
It was just reported in the New York Times that Google-China was hit with a massive cyber attack. The aim of the attack mainly was to find the emails of human rights activists in the country. Also attacked were technology companies in Silicon Valley. The head legal honcho for Google-China said they may need to pull out of the country all together-amazing!
Here’s the article: Google Cyber Attack
David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the US. He is someone that truly cares about the financial wellness of our country. I saw him last night on the Ed Schultz show on MSNBC. I’m definitely going to get his new book: Come Back America-Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility. Walker writes on social security, healthcare reform, Medicaid and Medicare, tax reform, our international deficits, political reforms and more. Like it or not, we need to keep our eye on ball and this 'call to action' book gives us information and the hope we need to turn things around.
"I am reluctant to sell China short, not because I think it has no problems or corruption or bubbles, but because I think it has all those problems in spades — and some will blow up along the way (the most dangerous being pollution). But it also has a political class focused on addressing its real problems, as well as a mountain of savings with which to do so (unlike us)."
Read Thomas Friedman's new op-ed this morning in the New York Times that asks the provocative question; Is China The Next Enron?
I came across this passage in the book: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, written by Sarah Ban Breathnach. It really makes you think…
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit - Helen Keller
