Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts

May 11, 2010

Got Square?

Boys and Girls Square is finally up!!! For those of you who know about Square this is the time to make some money or spent some money!!! And for those who have no idea what Square is about, please check out video below.




July 14, 2009

How do you spend your paycheck?



Not everyone will have the same percentage but most people get hit by 5 major expenditures:

1. Housing +- 34.1%
2. Transportation +- 17.6%
3. Food +- 12.4%
4. Insurance +- 10.8%
5. Healthcare +- 5.7%

It's freighten to see that there is not much left for saving. Is this THE AMERICAN DREAM?

October 17, 2008

Who owns America?


Design by GOOD

Should you or do you care?

about 28% or $2.6 trillion is held by foreign governments!

Top 5 foreign holders of treasury securities from largest to smallest:

1. Japan
2. China
3. The United Kingdom
4. Oil Exporters*
5. Brazil

*Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Gaben, Libya, and Nigeria


43% of American spend more than they earn.

Average American has $8,565 in credit-card debt 15% higher than 2000.

In 2000 the median American family made about $61,000.

In 2007 ....................................................................... $60,500!


What does the world richest man think about CASH?



"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."


October 7, 2008

Why you should “Beware of geeks bearing formulas”?




Warren Buffett
Photo by: Baker / Redux

Warren Buffett committing a total of $8 billion to Goldman Sachs and General Electric.

Mr. Buffett is also the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo, which last Friday swept in with a $15 billion bid for another banking company, Wachovia, offering seven times what Citigroup did at the start of the week.



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October 6, 2008

2.3 Trillion $ missing?

700B$ bailout?

Sweetheart loan?

Inflation is taxes?

Taxing you to bailout bankers?


2.3 Trillion $ missing from Pentagon?

September 25, 2008

What is the reason for 700B$ bailout?



In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

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September 24, 2008

Why Warren Buffett invest 5B$ in Goldman Sachs?


What does he know that the rest of us don't know?

"the ultimate stamp of approval"?

"Five years from now, ten years from now, we will look back at this period and we will say you could have made some extraordinary buys. -WB

Find out why.

July 25, 2008

Money Make You Happy?

Money Doesn't Make You Happy!

Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist

Material stuff won't make you happy. I'm pretty sure I got the message at the Hebrew school attached to the temple in Morristown, N.J., where I grew up. Maybe I was around eight at the time.

It's very true; I'm pretty happy with a tiny fraction of the wealth I could have. I know a bunch of really rich guys, and they're no happier than anyone else.

Compiled by Kelsey Abbott, Max Alexander, Suzanne Barlyn, Michaela Cavallaro, Peter McDougall, Daphne Mosher, Kristi Oloffson, O.C. Ugwu, and Mike Woelflein
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