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Women Billionaires and 8 Products That Made Them Successful in 2024

There may be a great deal of addition to the list of the world’s billionaires, as shown in Forbes 2013 list where there are now 1,426 (welcome 200 newcomers!) on this elite annual roundup, with a record-high combined net worth of $5.4 trillion. But the fortune wand had been kinder to women as well, who […]

10 Financial Facts About Salt: From Alexander The Great to Angelina Jolie

Have you ever wondered why one can buy enough salt to last for a year with just five dollars or even less? And even if the price of salt increased twice or thrice, people would still buy it? This was not the case in the old times. In fact, salt was highly valued alongside gold […]

Foreign stocks: Good or Bad Investment?

Foreign stocks can give you a high return, or wipe out your nest in a single bound. Buying foreign stocks is a good add-on to your investment nest. They provide a shock absorber once the U.S. market slows down. In most cases, the double- and triple- digit increase in foreign stock markets is the main […]

Income Inequality: Are Our Principles The Real Root of The Problem?

Income inequality is often thought to breed social tensions when the poorer groups in a society feel deprived or dispossessed compared with other people. Who wouldn’t, when, every day, someone in the bedrock of wage and compensation (bottom 10 percent) reads about the life of the blessed upper 1 percent, whose monthly incomes equate to […]

Income Inequality IS Affecting Your Children’s Future

The deteriorating state of children’s condition on a global scale and the increase in social ills involving youths show that growing up in relative poverty and living amidst income inequality have negative effects on the overall well-being of the young. These effects perpetuate along the course of life. Child-relative poverty (children living in a household […]

Income Inequality: Can Fixing It Solve Our Health Problems?

A positive indicator of a good social and economic status is good health, specifically higher life expectancy, lower mortality rate, and less morbidity level per population. In turn, these are affected by factors directly linked to personal or household income, like physical condition, nutrition, and occupation. Simply put, the better the income level, the better […]

10 World’s Most Expensive Science Experiments in 2024

The many groundbreaking scientific advances of the 20th and 21st century have completely changed the way that the modern world lives and thrives. Where would we be if we had never discovered penicillin or if we had never put satellites into orbit? How would our lives be different if nobody had ever created the personal […]

Money Tips and Life Advice from The World’s Richest Women

While men and women may have different views about wealth accumulation and specific money aspects like spending and savings, the difference may lie only on how their messages are said or shared, with perhaps women possessing a higher level of sentimentality especially where personal experiences are concerned. Otherwise, both genders after all aspire to the […]

10 Most Expensive Writing Instruments In The World in 2024

What is the most expensive writing instrument in the world in CURRENT_YEAR? Considering a computer is a writing instrument, the answer is the supercomputer used for the Earth Simulator project which costs a whopping $400 million. Here’s our complete list of most expensive writing instruments in the world in CURRENT_YEAR:

Plants vs. Zombies 2 Creator Hits Big Money in 2024 with These 5 “Secrets”

Plants vs. Zombies is literally a game changer, introducing the world to the popularity of mobile gaming and creating an army of people glued to their smartphones for hours. Before the birds got angry and just about when people started to tire out of farming online, there were the plants and their nemesis, zombies. As […]

Pacific Rim Robot Giants and the Big Business of Mecha Anime

They’re big in size, courage and business. They are giant robots of the mecha anime genre that fight for humanity, without vacation leaves we assume. The Jaeger robots from the Pacific Rim are the latest addition to the mecha anime line of metallic heroes and, once again, the fan boy (or girl) in us is […]

6 Wimbledon Facts To Impress Your Tennis-loving Friends

Wimbledon fever is on high gear and the grass is trimmed and set. Time to brush up your tennis I.Q. and we’ve put together some trivia and facts about Wimbledon that, um… may have nothing to do with the game. But these are swell things to know should you happen to be dating a tennis […]

Space Tourism: How Much Should You Save For A Space Trip in 2024?

Commercial space travel has developed to include not only convenience in space transportation for astronauts, but also once-in-a-lifetime outer space exploration for the idle rich known as space tourists. Before, astronauts traversed space in capsules, rockets, and orbiters. But with commercially designed space vehicles developed under NASA’s collaborative programs with space aviation agencies, a more […]

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s "Lean In": Find Out If It's Worth the Read

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In has been causing a lot of buzz among women in the workplace—and women looking to jump (back) into the workplace—since its release a few months ago. People are talking about the book and Sandberg’s advice all over the internet, fans of the book have built quite a growing […]

Student Loan: Goodbye College, Hello Loan Repayment!

For the fresh college grad, everything looks sunshiny and abloom when it comes to what the future holds. Despite post-recession downturns like lack of real, full-time and well-paying jobs in the monthly Labor Department employment updates, enthusiasm and positivism naturally runs high in the veins of a young American finally free from campus confines and […]

Big Savings Ideas for Short Family Breaks

Not all vacations, especially in the summertime, should be about the sun, sand and sea, nor should it entail dipping into your savings for a 2-way ticket to out-of-state destinations or a foreign country. In the same way, unlike full-on staycations, brief breaks on a budget need not be strictly within city limits. Short vacations […]

4 Reasons Why Yuan Won’t Replace Dollar as Reserve Currency in 2024

The battle is on between the dollar and yuan as the world’s reserve currency. Or is there a battle at all? The dollar will remain the world’s top reserve currency—not the yuan any time at all—and for four good reasons to be spelled out in a while. A CNBC report early this year echoed a […]

How To Deal With Money Emergencies

Dipping Into Your Life Savings This article is Part 4 of 5 of Your Total Guide to Managing Life Savings: Exposing The Best-Kept Secrets Money emergencies are a fact of life. When faced with such a situation, the practical and immediate solution outweigh other options, especially in life-threatening moments or in instances when one’s […]

Managing Life Savings: A Total Guide Exposing The Best-Kept Secrets

One fact of life is that as we grow older, we will eventually need to have something to show for the responsibility and maturity which we have acquired as natural part of our self-growth. These things are major-ticket goals, which means they entail major expenses as well. This is where building a life savings or […]

Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres – Talk Show Celebrities Compare Their Money and Status

Women make an average of 30% less than men: $.70 cents to a man’s $1.00. Women of color fair even worse when it comes to income—making just around $.64 cents to a white man’s dollar. While the odds are against the average woman, especially the average minority woman, in the United States some women have […]

Women With More Money: Views on The Financially Independent Woman

With so much that is happening on the economic front and its effects on individual lives and families where money and survival are concerned, financial independence has become a hot topic of discussion especially among women. It also seems fitting that men dip into the issue, having central roles in the emergence of the “independent […]

Home-Based Businesses: 4 Easy Ways to Get Started

If, for whatever reason, you’re a stay-at-home mom, dad, or single adult there is no need for you to be without an income. There are a variety of skills and attributes you can parlay into a successful home-based enterprise. We know programmers, artists, and writers do this all the time, but there are many other […]

Money and Motherhood: For Better Or For Worse

A good number of women today juggle work and motherhood at the same time. While there are many other things that can motivate moms to work anew (be it at or away from home) such as self-worth, seizing opportunities and being productive, money is a big factor in this tough decision, as mothers would naturally […]

Ways to Save For Smart Moms

There are many ways to save and they start at home. Consider the annual household expenditures—food, clothing, transportation, mortgages, personal care, etc.—that we spend on the average: nearly fifty thousand dollars per year, says the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s a lot of budget to play around, cost that you can cut elsewhere and add to […]

Retail Therapy Makes the Sad Spender a Happy Shopper?

After advocating for sobriety in spending and the delay of instant gratification for decades, many financial advisers are aghast at a recent spate of reports extolling the virtues of retail therapy. After all, conspicuous consumptions was singled out as one major cause of the Great Recession. Much as we would all like common sense to […]

The Best Online Tools For Home Based Businesses

Home based business and work have become part of the growing population of productive Americans, and if you’re among them, there are tons of tools around that can increase your productivity. In many cases, your home based business or work is probably starting as linear, that is, you do the job in your computer and […]

Instant approval bad credit loans: fast solutions for hard problems

Instant approval bad credit loans are a great source of emergency cash that allows you some breathing room when things are tight in between paydays. However, some people with bad credit are not so sure. Take the case of Edith. “I’ve always taken great pride in my ability to manage my finances. As events in […]

Personal Loans Immediately Poor Credit – Are They for You?

Richard asked me the following question: “What are my options when I’ve got an urgent need for cash? Rest assured it’s for an emergency and that I can likely pay the loan back in two paychecks. Let’s just say I need to borrow now. Are payday loans a good option for me? Or are there […]

Next Day Loans: When to Use Them

John asked us the following question: “The great news is I got a job again and I can start repaying my loans and still meet my monthly bills. Reading the news, I can sense a general positive sentiment on our economy. In fact, in the first quarter the government has reported that unemployment rate is […]

Need cash now? Here are 5 Things to Remember

Lhay asked us the following question: “Hi. I’m pretty tied up to being evicted soon if I fail to pay rent. I’m three months delayed and my budget just can’t keep up with my monthly bills. I need cash now, but I know that if I get another loan, I’ll just be extending my misery. […]

Unsecured Loans for People with Bad Credit can Work to Your Advantage

You’ll find articles about unsecured payday loans everywhere on the Internet. You always hear about how these loans put consumers and borrowers at great risk. Truth is, high interest are not new. They have been around for ages. There might be some difference here and there, but the basic concept remains the same. This article […]

Online Payday Loans Direct Lenders That Do Offer Good Terms

Mark wants to know how true are the hassle-free terms offered by some online payday loans direct lenders: “Hi, I just want to ask how come some lenders can advertise hassle-free loans even for people with bad credit like me, while banks wouldn’t even give me a penny chance to borrow money? I’m thinking that […]

10 Incredible Lost Savings Stories and Lessons Learned from Them in 2024

Have you ever experienced losing your precious savings because of a miscalculated risk or a bad decision? Or perhaps, your financial account may have slowly sunken to negative balance because of circumstances beyond your control, like an illness or personal troubles. Whether the lost happened under a dramatic circumstance or simply as a result of […]

How Can I Start Couponing? 5 Blogs to Get You On The Right Track

There’s an entire underground world of couponing that goes way beyond your average weekend-flyer deals. The internet has changed the way that savers shop, and there are thousands of blogs out there designed specifically to help you find the best deals. Most people don’t have time to scour the internet for the best coupon blogs […]

Save Money on Cleaning Supplies: DIY Alternatives

Keeping your house clean can be a serious household expense. There is a different cleaning product for everything, from the toilet to the carpet, and investing in each of these products can be crippling for your wallet. But do you really need to be spending so much on keeping your house clean? Not necessarily! We’ve […]

5 Shocking Saving Secrets of Millionaires

Stories abound about the things well-known billionaires do that border on extreme frugality. We’ve heard and read about Monaco’s Prince Rainier buying sets of socks in matching colors and designs so that when one gets lost or worn out, there is always a ready match, eliminating the need to buy a new pair. In the […]

Seven Proven Tips for Teleworkers

If you work from home you’re one among millions who have joined the tech-enabled crowd who’ve said no to traffic jams and yes to life. Most teleworkers (those who work from home or in a remote, offsite location) find this arrangement liberating and empowering. Consider this. The 2010 US Census reported that 10% of Americans […]

How to Manage and Take Control of your DIY Budget

TREAT A DIY PROJECT AS AN INVESTMENT This article is Part 3 of 6 of How to DIY: Your Total Guide for DIY Directions that Really Work “But my Do-It-Yourself stuff are only a hobby.” “It doesn’t cost that much money so why bother with serious budgeting?” “I don’t know how to do those […]

5 Tips for Adopting a Minimalist Wardrobe

Some think that the key to success is dressing nicely always. I certainly used to believe that this was true—which is why I have the bigger clothing collection than the majority of my friends. If I dress seriously people will take me seriously, right? So buy more clothes! Only lots of fancy clothes are really […]

10 Big Ideas for Small Spaces

If, like many young Americans, you’re one your own for the first time and moving into an apartment or condominium with a small space, here are some wonderful decorating ideas to make your new home more livable. You’ll create the illusion of bigger space, or at least make your quarters a place you’d like to […]

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