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One of the most important things you need in life is to learn how to ensure their financial well being. Do not take a genius to do this. All you need is to learn the basics, develop a plan and be ready to stick to it. No matter how much money you have, it is [...]

What percentage of my savings I invest in stocks? And what percentage should I invest in bonds or hold cash or other kinds of investments like real estate? The questions on how to invest and how much of their savings to invest are at the top of the mind of every investor. Let’s take a [...]

It is hard to believe that driving down the street and see a sign of the gas station that reads “Unleaded $ 2. 15! You read that right. If we are paying $ 4. 75 not long ago? How is this possible? It is possible because a barrel of oil that once cost $ 147, [...]

Our Excellencies are therefore found guilty of allowing them to believe that this is not the lack of discipline in the Eurozone, which explains the overspending that the majority of states that have the Euro as currency are guilty, and which Greece is the main instigator. You forget of course that if Greece has 122% [...]

Hedge funds are opaque and hedge funds, which can live only if they receive funding from their bank, in the form of credits. This business of “prime brokerage” has expanded greatly and was severely mistreated during the financial crisis. Investment banks have seen their customers to leave shelter risks of these brokers and take refuge [...]

Upon landing last night after a business trip of ten days in China and Japan, the news of the continuation of Goldman Sachs for its role in Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) reminds me a financial reality. Certainly, the Honorable banking seems to have succeeded in becoming the epicenter of the earthquake that devastated Wall Street [...]

We cannot say that the European authorities have not been warned. For six months during which the Greek saga, not a coin, one euro has not yet been sent to Greece from the countries of the Eurozone. And the fact that Greece has appealed to the Europe-IMF delegation that since two weeks demonstrated the environ [...]

In a previous blog about the toxic financial products, I raised the question about the need for tighter regulation of these, including the establishment of certain minimum standards of financial products and – if necessary – the introduction of actual prohibition against offering the most toxic of the battle for the most vulnerable client groups. [...]