Personal Finance

In general, gambling is a pretty dumb idea too. The house has always ainvesting10 higher chance of winning than you and falling under the impression that you might just get lucky can hardly result in anything profitable. Here's a look at the actual things that should be avoided at any costs - the most stupid things you can do with your funds.

How do you know how much is enough? Being able to answer this question means having a sense of “good enough” inside, which results in an internal affirmation of worth. If you equate love and self-esteem with money and power, “more” will never be enough.

Money is part of life and sometimes it allows you to make a decision out of love...Perhaps you save to give to a specific charity, or to help an animal or take your family on a special trip every year. It’s not the money, it’s what it adds to the fabric of your life and the good you do with it based on strong feelings and beliefs. Are you saving for what and who you love for tomorrow and most important, today?

Now’s the time to establish your own small army of financial drones - and fly your own path to financial success. This article shows you how to do just that.

There is a crucial component of the investment process that gets surprisingly little attention: our investment default settings. We can use them when we aren’t sure what to do, when we’re deciding what to do, when our circumstances have changed but our plan hasn’t (yet), or when we’re just starting out. Here they are.

A big financial challenge retirees face is ensuring their savings last the rest of their lives. It’s a daunting task for those making the transition into retirement as well as for those already in retirement. While saving as much as possible during your working years is important, the decisions you make in retirement are also very important. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to improve your odds of financial success. Here are 10 of them.

Conflicting money philosophies can wreak havoc on a relationship so, before the rings, discuss the strings. You don’t need to be money twins about financial matters, just hold similar core values because if the relationship with money varies dramatically from your beau’s, you can rest assured conflict will eventually tarnish the bliss.

While some lack the necessary resources to become rich, many have the ability, but simply do not purchase assets that have the potential to appreciate in order to eventually make them rich. Instead, money is often spent as soon as it is earned for immediate need or gratification. This article outlines how to earn and acquire assets like the rich and spend like the poor.

The world's most successful people have one thing in common: they think differently from everyone else" and below are 15 traits associated with such successful people.

The government in the Land of the Free is moving in the direction of borrowing more and more of your retirement savings. They need more money & there is no easier pool of cash to ‘borrow’ than Americans’ retirement savings. $7.3 trillion in U.S. IRA accounts is too large for them to ignore.