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Editor’s note: Today I am very happy to introduce to you a new writer for The Money Principle. This is Alex’s first article and I hope you find it informative and useful. There are many joyful surprises that come to light for jobseeker’s claimants in the UK, if you are…
Right, people! This article comes with a warning: if you are under 35 please stop reading now since anything I say is probably a second nature to you. Go learn something that may be useful to you. If, on the other hand, you are over forty stay with me a…
Going to college can be a great way to advance you personally. For many high school graduates, college is a must. The reason is education to set them up to succeed in the future. In fact, many jobs now look for college graduates exclusively, rather than making it the exception…
Our lives run on routines – from the moment we wake up, till the time when our eyelashes gently ring with tiredness, we execute sets of routines. We brush our teeth and don’t even remember doing it. Heck, sometimes I’ll drive to work and won’t be able to recall the…
Lately, I have noticed that my life has become a bit harder! Now some may attribute this to the on-going economic crisis – we have already been through a double dip recession and are confidently marching into a triple dip one; which is a way for economists, finance buffs and…
Ideally, we shouldn’t even think about taking out a consolidation personal loan! At the same time many of us need a little help with our cash flow from time to time or to get the big stuff in life – houses, for instance. Similarly, as somebody said in a…
Last night I was talking to one of my sons – the one who is in his mid-twenties – and what struck me was the unmovable convictions he had on many issues. We were talking about writing because he is the one in the family with real talent; heck,…
Banks have been having a bad press recently. My views on the causes are probably better kept out of this article but don’t tar all banks, let alone bankers, with the same brush. Love them or hate them, we need them. In fact we have good reason to be very…
Have you noticed that more and more people have more and more debt? This is a fact hard to miss even if you are not one of them. Here are some numbers: Between 1990 and 2000 the number of Americans seeking the help of a credit councillor doubled; The average…
There was a time, over fifteen years ago, when I did believe that one can have a really good quality of life in a poor country; given that one isn’t poor, of course. This belief had no foundation in experience – only in casually empiricist observation. I had noticed that…
You might have a great idea for a bricks-and-mortar business such as a beauty salon or a picture gallery. Next you need premises, which remain the most important investment in your business plan for the next couple of years, until you’re ready to scale up or change the focus of…
In sociology, there is a phenomenon known as the Matthew effect, or accumulated advantage. Put simply, this means that the rich get richer and the poor become poorer because of the economic and cultural capital that goes with having access to resources. Personal finance bloggers have different take on the…