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Money. Stocks. Forex. Savings. Calculator. Switching. Banks. Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know Ab. A few days ago, I had lunch with an individual who is considering hiring me to give a multi-hour seminar to a business convention on personal finance. This person knows me from the local community and is a reader of The Simple Dollar and he felt that I might be the right person to give such a presentation. During the lunch, out of the blue, he asked me to give a five minute nutshell version of what I would present to the group.

I thought for a minute, pulled a pen out of my pocket, and asked him for five business cards. In those next five minutes, I summarized everything I know about personal finance in a pocket-friendly presentation. I saved the business cards, scanned them in, and thus, for your enjoyment, is my presentation (with some extensive helper notes so you can know what I was actually saying while drawing these cards). 1. In the end, this is the fundamental rule of personal finance: spend less than you earn. 2. So how does one earn more? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 4. 1. Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership - Yahoo! R. The Best Stock Trading in the World: Very Large Dataset Analysis. Home. Communist Robot - Where do you stand on the future?

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The invention of the corporation gave way to a new era of financial dealings, melding individuals together to increase their monies, especially with marketable securities. But first, what is a corporation? It is an intangible legal being designed to assure an organization unlimited life and limited liability. Corporations are of three main types: government or municipal; stock (private) corporations; and religious, charitable, membership or endowment. The first two provide almost all marketable securities. The corporation first appeared in Europe around the fourteenth century when Queen Elizabeth I was the moving light in the East India Company.

Now these corporations and others like them have another feature giving them a great advantage over an individual proprietorship or partnership. Government and municipal corporations (whose main revenues are from taxes) do their security financing almost entirely by borrowing. Visit: =====================