Check Scam

Check Scam

Have you ever posted an ad on Craigslist, or some other website, to sell something? Well you have probably been warned to only work with people locally, and beware of phone checks, cashier’s checks and money orders. Recently I was selling a beautiful stainless steel...

Saving Capitalism

While sitting in my doctor’s office last week I ran across a Time magazine article from May of this year entitled Saving Capitalism. Because I enjoy articles about finance that round out my understanding of money, I picked it up. The point of the article is that banks...

When I make more money…

It is funny how some comments can inspire us and others we easily forget. Recently I got an email from a staff training I presented to the U.S Bankruptcy Court. The lady who sent the email was commenting on how she would like to save more money, and then invest, and...

Are you Illiterate too?

Recently I ran across a financial literacy test put out by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation based on a survey of 25,000 people. There were only 6 questions, which I found to be very basic. And as you would suspect I got them all correct; but then I have studied...