| There is a big difference between hating losing... 589 |
[Feb. 13th, 2010|04:00 am] |
There is a big difference between hating losing and being afraid to loseMost people are so afraid of losing money that they loseThey go broke over a duplexFinancially they play life too safe and too smallThey buy big houses and big cars, but not big investmentsThe main reason that over 90 percent of the American public struggles financially is because they play not to loseThey don't play to win
They go to their financial planners or accountants or stockbrokers and buy a balanced portfolioMost have lots of cash in CDs, low-yield bonds, mutual funds that can be traded within a |
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| What he was about to try was not a thing one did... 984 |
[Feb. 12th, 2010|03:51 am] |
What he was about to try was not a thing one did for practice, anywhere
He checked the hang of the dagger in his belt, wiped his hands one last time, and stood upAbsurdly, the flash of memory that came to him then was of the day his brothers had surprised him hanging upside down from a tree, trying to stretch his height
Devin smiled tightly and stepped to the edge of the cliffThe branch looked absurdly far away, and it was only half of the way down to the level of the passHe swore an inward oath that if he survived this Baerd was going to teach him how to use a bow properly
From the path below he heard the ragged voices swirling erratically towards the climax of the ballad:
Gan Burdash ruled in |
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| I assured him that there were other ways to... 359 |
[Feb. 11th, 2010|03:47 am] |
I assured him that there were other ways to finance a property other than through the bank
We looked for a house for two weeks, a house that would fit all the criteria we were looking forThere were a lot to choose from, so the shopping was kind of funFinally, we found a 3 bedroom 2 bath home in a prime neighborhoodThe owner had been downsized and needed to sell that day because he and his family were moving to California where another job waited
He wanted $102,000, but we offered only $79,000He took it immediatelyThe home had on it what is called a non-qualifying loan, which means even a bum without a job could buy it without a banker's approvalThe owner owed $72,000 so all my friend had to come up with was $7,000, the difference in price between what was owed and what it sold forAs soon as the owner moved, my friend put the |
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| Hello, my account friends 0 |
[Feb. 10th, 2010|10:47 pm] |
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Welcome to my first blog |
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| "Russian Government Manages to Curb Unemployment: Putin |
[Feb. 5th, 2010|11:14 am] |
"The Russian government has avoided a sharp increase in unemployment and preserved the country's underdeveloped banking system, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday while summing up the government's main achievements in 2009.
""Unemployment has grown and is still growing, but it isn't as dramatic as it might have been,"" Putin told reporters during a working visit to Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
Putin recalled that Russia's largest banks disappeared after the 1998 financial crisis and took money with them. ""We have prevented this from happening (this time),"" he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
The government acquired several banks that were on the verge of bankruptcy amidst the ongoing economic downturn, he said. ""We've restructured them, merged or consolidated them.""
Putin admitted that the credit market contracted considerably due to the economic crisis, but said the country is gradually emerging from this situation.
The premier added that authorities should have spent more on diversifying the economy in the past decade.
Russia, whose economy is heavily dependent on energy resources, was hard hit by the global economic downturn as oil prices collapsed late last year. Putin predicted early this month that Russia's economy would shrink by 8.5 to 8.7 percent this year.
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