Investing

Dollar Matters: All Sorts of Investing

Investing is one way to grow your money a little faster. However, you can’t just put your money into something and expect good results. Here are some great investing related articles from around the personal finance web:

Alternative Investments: Are we Bubbling?

Z at the Investing Blog looks at the bubble potential of alternative investments. Everyone has been trying new things, but it may not last much longer.

Investing: 3 Walls to Watch

2 Cents at Balance Junkie helps you figure out how to watch the investing walls you might run into. Stay alert, and keep track of where you are at.

The Three Faces of Wall Street

Rob Bennett at Out Of Your Rut describes the sort of split personality of Wall Street. H

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Monday, April 4th, 2011 Financial News No Comments

20 of the Most Inspiring Quotes on Investing

Need a little pick-me-up when it comes to finances and investing? Here are a few quotes that can provide you the inspiration needed to get back into the game.

1. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

-Benjamin Franklin

2. Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don’t lump yourself with capital investment.

-Ann Macbeth

3. But a lot of businesses out there don’t see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it’s still a hard sell for people.

-Kevin Mitnick

4. But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they’re teams that don’t have a lot on the table. They’ve long since not had any serious investment in their team.

-Jerry Jones

5. Why not inv

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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 Financial News No Comments

Book Review: The Skinny on Real Estate Investing

The Skinny on Real Estate

When I consented to review The Skinny on Real Estate Investing, I assumed I’d be reviewing a book, and not a pamphlet illustrated by my 8-year old niece who drools a lot and still has some trouble negotiating bathroom time. This review might run longer than the book itself.

Jim Randel’s series of illustrated The Skinny on titles boasts that it’s “For Really Busy People!” It’s also suitable For Really Fidgety People who can’t get through a book longer than 10,000 words. The lengthiest passage is the introduction, which runs a full page and explains The Skinny on’s M.O. of culling swaths of information into a workable whole. But it doesn’t

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Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Financial News No Comments