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Reviews

A Practical Guide to Socially Responsible Investing (Review)
Socially Responsible Investing

With the ever present global citizenship campaign and a new green revolution has emerged the desire for our money to work towards what agree to be in alliance with those values – socially responsible...

The Best Investing Blogs for College Students and Twenty-Somethings

The best blogs for twenty-somethings and college students are those that focus on investing but, do not rely completely on it. These blogs are for investors first and foremost but incorporate elements of finance and economics to complete the picture,...

5 Great Books for Avoiding Investing Scams, Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Schemes
Ponzi Schemes

Financial scams are all around us and now more than ever we are suspect to their enticing offers and promises of easy wealth. However, a simple investment in a little bit of reading would serve us right to better understanding this horrible situations...

Is Uinvest Still Considered a Scam? You Better Read this Before you Blow Your Money!
Uinvest

One of my most popular articles on this blog is one I wrote about a year and a half ago regarding Uinvest, what I perceived at the time to be a scam. It was being hailed amongst HYIP blogs (high yield investment products) as the one that actually paid...

I Just Got my Company’s 401(k) Plan Options – What Should I Do?
I Just Got my Company’s 401(k) Plan Options – What Should I Do?

  401(k)’s have been on my mind a lot lately. With a recent career change, I now have an employer that offers a very generous, easy to use and options-filled 401(k). I won’t share which employer or which plan I actually use but, will go through some...

The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio – Repetitive, Boring and Not Worth it
Warren Buffett

This book frames everything around the end of the “Great Recession” and the attempt at recovery in 2011 and 2012. Thus it determines now (2011-2012) and when everyone else is worried is the time to buy. That is when Buffett buys and when almost...

The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today’s Investor by Josh Peters (review)
Ultimate Dividend Playbook

There are too many investing books published about some cheesy trading secret formula that no one in their right mind should follow. This book is one of the few that doesn’t fit into that category. Josh Peters of MorningStar makes it very clear: this is...

Just2Trade Review and Interview with CEO Fuad Ahmed
Just2Trade Review and Interview with CEO Fuad Ahmed

Several weeks ago I was privileged enough to gain full access to a practice account with  Just2Trade, a discount brokerage. I followed up with a video interview with the company’s CEO Fuad...

What About the Next Recession?
Recession

Europe cannot get its act together. Debt deals to figure out what the plan will be to bail out Greece have not been agreed upon yet. Angela Merkel of Germany and the backwards French government cannot find the correct budget or the correct plan of action....