The Power of Persistence
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
-Abraham Lincoln
A lesson everyone must learn is the need to persist when it is difficult. When we experience defeat and rejection, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit, but the successful have learned to persist.
Mark Victor [...]
Free Business & Finance Courses Online
I was reading an article, A Boost in Online Money Courses, on the Wall Street Journal yesterday, and from there I went to a website called Open Courseware Consortium. This is the first time I knew the existence of such a website, so I decided to check it out.
So what is Open Courseware?
An OpenCourseWare is [...]
10-Year Treasury Note Yield Reached All-Time Low – Chart of the Day
Today, when U.S. stocks gave up nearly half of the gains from the past five trading days (the Dow lost nearly 680 points, more on the Dow crushes), Treasuries also suffered significant drop in yields. Among them, yield of 10-year Treasury note reached record low of 2.75% since the tracking began in 1962 as investors [...]
Why You Should Make Room for Charitable Giving in Your Budget
Following is a guest post written by Jonathan from Master Your Card.
You already know you should have a budget. It’s likely that you also know how to set the budget up: categorize your spending, allocate your income, yadda yadda yadda. What you may not realize is that when the time comes to figure [...]
Quicken Online New Features and Demo Video
A little over a month ago, Quicken made Quicken Online free for everybody who wants to use it. Quicken Online is a online tool that allows you to perform some basic money management functions such as tracking you expenses, making a budget, reminding you unpaid bills and checking your financial goals, etc. I have been [...]
Financial Tips for College Students
This month, The Money Writers is having its second group writing project. The topic this time is about financial tips for college students, most of them just began their new school year after the long summer break. This is a relatively new area for me, not the financial tips part, but the college part because [...]
Economic Stimulus Payment: Is It Taxable?
With the economic stimulus checks coming out earlier than originally scheduled, some may have already received their payments. Though I haven’t got my check yet (filed paper return on April 14th could mean a long delay), I did wonder whether I have to pay taxes for the “found money”. So I searched around a [...]
