Posted February 3, 2010 at 5:45 am
Video: Market coach Doug Hirschhorn, PhD, advises traders that making money really is easy. Keeping it, however, is a bit more challenging.
This week’s trading lesson: Making money is easy. In fact, making money in any market is easy. It’s keeping it that’s hard.
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Posted February 2, 2010 at 9:49 am
by Klaus Kneale:
via Yahoo Finance
Maybe you don’t want to spend all that time taking classes in obscure subjects while hoping to find your calling and piling up student loan debt. Maybe you don’t really care so much about college. You just want to work and make money.
You can do it, but there aren’t many fields where it happens very often. In our list of 14 potentially six-figure jobs that don’t require a four-year diploma, only two have a median wage of above $100,000. For the rest, you’ll have to be in the top 10% of earners, and even then you may find yourself working 50 to 60 hours a week.
More from Forbes.com:
• In Depth: Jobs That Can Earn More Than $100,000 Without College
Dr. Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at Payscale.com, says that most of these jobs share a few qualities. (Payscale’s research provided the numbers that made this list possible. The company measured the average earnings for people with eight or more years in their field.)
No test can tell an employer how good you might be at some of these lines of work — real estate broker or fashion designer, for example. That’s why a degree is less important to a potential employer than field experience and demonstrated past success. Either you’re good at it or you’re not.
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Posted February 1, 2010 at 2:32 pm
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Posted January 31, 2010 at 1:50 am
by Brian Doherty
The American Conservative
How do you feel about the federal government’s spying on everything you do online, every call you make, every trip you take? Get used to it!
Thanks to the “massive security apparatus” erected after 9/11, the government now wiretaps international calls without warrants, creates profiles of citizens even if they’re not suspected of specific crimes, and seizes information without judicial oversight.
In this brave new world, private companies — “to which we entrust more and more information about what we’re saying, writing, buying, and thinking” — willingly turn over reams of information about their customers.
Much of this takes place secretly , but it has been confirmed that Sprint Nextel provided the government with GPS locations of its subscribers 8 million times in a recent one-year period, and that the National Security Agency built a secret room at an AT&T center in San Francisco “to grab all it’s Internet traffic.”
In our wired age, the paranoids with aluminum-foil hats are essentially right: The government is now monitoring everything you do.
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Posted January 31, 2010 at 1:40 am
Vacations by Rail offers a 10-day package from Vancouver to Calgary from $2,047, including the train fare, hotel accommodations, and meals.
Book by March 12th and get a free one-night stay in Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre.
Contact: VacationsbyRail.com
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Posted January 27, 2010 at 7:46 pm
From Ted.com
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.
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Posted January 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
by Barry Goss:
Publisher, The Wealth Vault
As the U.S. continues its proliferating pace to catch up to the rest of the world, who seemingly feel it’s okay for it’s citizenry to live under a “Nanny State” – or a place where government spending out clips its country’s economic output by about two to one (ref: Cato Institute) — I couldn’t help but pass along this little factoid:
According to the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health, depression among Canada’s public servants has reached epidemic proportions.
This health research group said that mental health claims account for nearly half of all disability claims by public workers, including teachers, nurses, police, military, and government bureaucrats.
Either this large crowd of public servants totally knows how to game the very system (sorta like raiding their own cookie jar) that pays them (i.e., filing false mental health claims)… or… they really are what my Grandma in Alabama used to call “down and out.”
Or, the way I’d say it: they’re working in a status-quo environment, controlled by elite group ideology that suppresses progress and innovation.
In the words of Bill Wilkerson (the health research group’s head): “bureaucrats often end work each day feeling that they have accomplished nothing.”
Exactly, Bill!
NADA! Zip!
You see, as stalwart proponents of individual achievement, like Ayn Rand, have often shouted from the rooftops:
“Abundance was not created by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.”
And private fortunes are built in a society that encourages being different… being a critical-thinker… being a person of ideas… being a producer!
Because, truly, there’s never a money problem, as the lack of it (like clockwork) is always rooted in stagnant ideas or dormant activity.
There are amazing people out in the world who are producing things, and involved in enterprise, for all the right reasons.
Yet, in order to continue to grow this ever-dwindling worldwide crowd, it’s my contention that we need to start promoting entrepreneurship, personal accountability, and the pursuit of individual happiness and wealth.
‘Nuff said!
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Posted January 26, 2010 at 9:20 am
From The Economist print edition:
IN THE aftermath of the Senate election in Massachusetts, the focus of attention is inevitably 
on what it means for Barack Obama. The impact on the Democratic president of the loss of the late Ted Kennedy’s seat to the Republicans will, no doubt, be significant (see article).
Yet the result could be remembered as a message more profound than the disparate mutterings of a grumpy electorate that has lost faith in its leader—as a growl of hostility to the rising power of the state.
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Posted January 21, 2010 at 6:18 am
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Posted January 20, 2010 at 1:27 am
If we focus on America, for instance, we see that for households and in the commercial real estate sector it is very likely that additional steps will be taken to bring liabilities in line with income. The Economist says:
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