Posts tagged: Finance

Self-employment Poses Particular Finance Challenges

Self-employment Poses Particular Finance Challenges

Do you dream of just chucking the corporate rat race and becoming your own boss? Many workers have chosen that option after joining the ranks of the millions who have lost their jobs in the recession.

Personal Finance Daily: Burned by the bankers then scammed by their spawn

Personal Finance Daily: Burned by the bankers then scammed by their spawn

The Wall Street bankers and their cronies who brought our financial system to the brink of ruin last year didn’t just squash our nest eggs and leave so many of us jobless. They also paved the way for a wave of equally unconscionable if not so highly compensated con artists to ply their trade.

Personal Finance Daily: We’re selling our kids into future slavery

Personal Finance Daily: We’re selling our kids into future slavery

Most parents in the U.S. would consider it barbaric to sell their children into slavery or indentured servitude for a little money now. But apparently they have no qualms about yoking their kids as beasts of burden to the national debt.

North Dakota Schools Step Up Personal Finance Education

North Dakota Schools Step Up Personal Finance Education

leave school financially savvy. North Dakota is among many states that are boosting classroom lessons in personal finance. and balancing a checkbook to living within a budget.

Court’s campaign finance decision a case of shoddy scholarship

Court’s campaign finance decision a case of shoddy scholarship

In opening the floodgates for corporate money in election campaigns, the Supreme Court did not simply engage in a brazen power grab. It did so in an opinion stunning in its intellectual dishonesty.

Finance boss at Blenheim Palace stole £150,000 from stately home to fund lavish lifestyle

Finance boss at Blenheim Palace stole £150,000 from stately home to fund lavish lifestyle

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Mixing Work and Personal Finance OK These Days

Mixing Work and Personal Finance OK These Days

By MARCIA HEROUX POUNDS SUN SENTINEL Employers once steered clear of mixing work and personal finance due to concerns about liability. But since the recession began, more employers are providing resources for financial education and credit counseling. Financial concerns can disrupt someone’s life on and off the job.

UPDATE: Greece Considering All Financing Options -Finance Min

UPDATE: Greece Considering All Financing Options -Finance Min

(Updates with details throughout.) ATHENS -(Dow Jones)- The Greek government is considering a range of financing options to meet its borrowing needs this year, including the possibility of issuing a so-called popular bond for Greek retail investors, the finance minister said Wednesday.

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-01-19 00:16 UK finance executives worried by regulation – CBI

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-01-19 00:16 UK finance executives worried by regulation – CBI

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Money Crashers Personal Finance Blog Announces 2010 New Year Giveaway Bash, Over $7,900 in Prizes

Money Crashers Personal Finance Blog Announces 2010 New Year Giveaway Bash, Over $7,900 in Prizes

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