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Fixing Broke America - Financial Opinion, Tips, & Review

Are you sick of watching your 401k and retirement money tank?  Everyone should have a well diversified portfolio of investments;  Stocks should be just a part of your investment strategy.  Bonds are typically referred to as the easiest way to maintain a balanced portfolio, however there’s other vehicles that can offer nice returns on your [...]

Now that the stock market is taking a bath, home values have been dropping like a rock, and bailouts are around every corner, it seems that everyone is hitting the panic button and wondering if capitalism is dead.  The ex-federal reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, recently sparked a wild fire that is rushing people to question [...]

The last 5 to 10 years have brought amazing and some not so amazing changes to our country.  On an economic front we have experienced tremendous growth.  Corporate growth had been clipping along at a runaway freight train pace, shopping malls were full of people gobbling up the latest and greatest, and up until the [...]

With the engine of our economy slowly coming to a halt, the new buzz phrase that’s been flying around capital hill is “economic stimulus package”.  I think that finding ways to spur economic growth and slow the run away train of recession is a great idea, however I don’t think that a spending spree is [...]

How many times have you heard someone say, “If only I could win the lottery.” I’ve often found myself dreaming about how great it would be to hit a massive lottery jackpot. Countless times with friends and family we’ve played out the scenario of who gets money and what we’d buy. Recently all [...]

Two of my greatest passions in life are finance and sports.  Both present great competition, winning and losing, physical and mental strength, and finally a ton of fun.  Recently it seems that there has been a lot more losses occurring in the financial world then wins and I hope that it doesn’t have a trickle [...]

What a whirlwind roller coaster the last couple of weeks have been in our economy.  We’ve basically seen a free fall of our stock market, a complete lack of confidence within the banking system, and our government playing janitor cleaning up the mess.  Home prices continue to fall, consumer and business credit is frozen, and [...]

For the last 5 years or so it’s been extremely easy for people and business to access capital from lending institutions.  How many times have you seen advertisements for credit cards, bank loans, and 0% no payment financing in the last 12 months.  I’d venture to say that you’ve seen it 10 times a day, [...]

Lately I’ve been hearing lots of conversations about how people in our country are living well beyond their means.  Often times the root of all our financial problems are resolved in a matter of minutes; blame it on the people who are addicted to buying and have no idea how to save.  I’ve often wondered [...]