Your budget is an important financial tool that can save you significant amounts of money and help you build your wealth. However, many young people cringe at at the mere utterance of the word, automatically conjuring up images in their minds of a crippled social life devoid of some of the activities they enjoy [...]
Making good financial decisions requires an understanding of certain principles and the incorporation of those principles into your decision-making process. Quite simply, if you don’t know what to take into consideration when making decisions that affect your finances, you’re going to be more likely to make unwise decisions, which can have a negative effect [...]
After the financial troubles of the past year, many young people these days find themselves wondering if they will be able to retire. Their concerns come after watching the markets drastically reduce the retirement savings of some of their parents and altering their perception that they would easily be able to retire comfortably. [...]
Once you have learned how to achieve the proper mindset for building wealth and financial success, the next step in successful wealth-building is to actually start building your wealth. That’s easy to say, and hopefully after you’ve read this post, it’ll be almost as easy to do.
Building wealth requires that you do [...]
If you want to be successful in life and have the ability to build wealth, one of the first things you need to do is get in the right mindset to succeed. You can learn all about the building blocks of personal finance, have a good working knowledge of how to use your financial [...]
This is the last post in our series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.
In this episode, titled Chimerica, we take a look at the globalization of finance and learn a bit about both the good and bad parts of options, hedge funds, and diversification. [...]
Continuing with our series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, we now take look at the historical build-up that caused the housing bubble of recent years.
In this episode, titled Safe As Houses, Ferguson explains how the landscape in the housing market [...]
In this post, we continue with our feature of the video series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.
So far this series, Ferguson has taught us about the origins of money, the practice of lending, the emergence of banks, the invention of bonds, [...]
This is the third post featuring the video series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.
In Part 1 - Dreams of Avarice, Ferguson explained where money originated, where lending money began, and how it grew to the larger-scale business of banking.
In [...]
This post continues our feature on the video series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.
In part 1 of this series, titled Dreams of Avarice, Ferguson took us on a journey (both back in time an geographically) to where money originated, where the [...]