Business & Finance

Do You Own Good Debt or Bad Debt?

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If managed wisely, debt doesn’t always have to be a negative thing. Simply stated debt can be good when it produces a positive return or cash flow and bad when it does not. The following guide will help you differentiate the good from the bad, so that you can get a feel for the type […]

How Banks Sold Themselves CDOs

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As the housing boom began to slow in 2006 investors became nervous about the riskier parts of their investments. Therefore, banks created and ultimately provided most of the money for new CDOs.

The Rise of Silver

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Silver is one of the most important of all precious metals. Today, owning silver as part of your portfolio seems to be a smart choice as prices have risen substantially over the past year or two and show little signs of topping out any time soon.

Plastic Is King: Consumer Debt in America

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The debt held by U.S. consumers plays an important role in today’s economy. In fact, a huge portion of the economic growth factor, or GDP, relies heavily on consumer debt. What follows is a dissection of consumer debt, showing how much we owe, who owns our debt, and America’s favorite credit cards.

What Would $1 Trillion Buy?

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The Federal Deficit for the 2010 budget year was $1.3 trillion and is estimated to climb to $1.4 trillion in 2011. So what exactly does $1 trillion get you these days? Just about anything, and a whole lot of it.

Alternative Investments

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Ever wonder if alternative investments can be more lucrative than traditional investments? Our research suggests that investing in Wine, Film Posters, Rare Books and Graphic Novels have been proven to be a great investment.

Coupons Infographic- surprising info about who uses them

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According to the Deals.com Poll (conducted by MyType), Smart, rich (making between 100-200k a year), socially responsible people who value the environment, are extroverted and imaginative use online coupons. Those who are neurotic, angry, insecure, careless procrastinators who make less than 50k a year do not. Do the online coupons make you smarter, richer and […]

Ebay Infographic: A Birthday Retrospective

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On Labor Day weekend in 1995. programmer Pierre Omidyar wrote the code for an online auction “experiment”. He sold eBay’s first item for $14.83: a broken laser pointer…

CRM101: A Novice Guide to Customer Relationship Management

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CRM 101 goes over the basic concepts behind Customer Relationship Management. CRM is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with customers, clients, and sales prospects. See exactly what is involved with this process.

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