Understanding Passive Income Streams
Written by Charlie Chester on September 23, 2011 – 4:47 amExperts agree, one of the best ways to secure your financial future is by adding as many passive income streams as possible. However, there is a lot of confusion over what is meant by passive income streams, as well as how to go about it. Let’s take a look at the definition of this term and how anyone can easily implement a few techniques to start bringing in this kind of income.
What are Passive Income Streams?
The term passive indicates that you won’t be doing any work, but you’ll be making money. While some work is necessary at the outset, once that is completed, you can basically sit back and watch the money roll in.
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Q&A: Pros and cons of credit card protection insurance
Written by Charlie Chester on September 21, 2011 – 10:28 pm
There may come a time in your life when you cannot make your monthly credit card payment. Whether its a lost job, a medical emergency, or other life-altering event, circumstances can arise that make credit card payments impossible. Your credit card company may have credit card protection insurance to help you out when times get tough. This insurance may work differently depending on the company that issues it, but generally it will make minimum monthly payments to your credit cards in the event that you can’t for specific (and documented) reasons. Of course, this protection isn’t free, so you will pay a charge—generally a percentage of your balance—each month for the coverage. This coverage is generally a good idea for individuals with a lot of debt spread over several different credit cards because it can help prevent high late charges from accruing. It can
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Sales People and Support People
Written by Jessica Clark on August 27, 2011 – 1:23 pmGood people are hard to find, the saying goes. For example, by the year 2000 over 190,000 computer programmer and other information technology jobs will be vacant, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report. (This is now a bit out of date, and although the dot-com bustups and the 2000-2001 recession has eased things a bit, it is still difficult to lure top talent.) It may be easy to fill these empty positions if you are a software giant like Microsoft, but there is a tremendous challenge attracting (and keeping) top performers if you are smaller and less well known.
According to chief executives and industry recruiters who were interviewed for this article, there are three main areas on which to focus: the quality and market position of your product or service, environment, and compensation.
Leading edge technology and a high perception of quality will lure top technical and design people, salespeople and support people, all for different reasons.
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Japan’s Credit Rating Downgraded
Written by Robert White on August 26, 2011 – 2:36 pmAfter Standard and Poor’s reduction of the credit rating on the world’s largest economy, the USA, fellow ratings agency Moody’s has moved to downgrade the credit rating for the world’s third largest economy, Japan.
Moody’s have reduced the rating on Japan’s long term sovereign debt from Aa2 to Aa3 which means that investors in Japanese bonds are exposing themselves to a slightly higher risk of default. Inevitably, this may mean that the Japanese find themselves paying more interest to attract investors to new bond issues. Moody’s said that they believed the outlook for Japan to be stable. Japan has the highest public debt level of any country and is having to deal with clean-up and reconstruction following March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. The Japanese go Full Article…
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Three ways to get an interest-free loan
Written by Charlie Chester on August 26, 2011 – 10:21 amHere are three routes to interest-free money that wont be found in the loans section of your bank!
The words ‘interest-free credit’ usually put me on my guard immediately. Many of these deals come with enormous, scary hidden catches; and anyway, in a perfect world, we’d all live within our means and never spend money we didn’t have.
Unfortunately, that’s not always how it works. Genuinely interest-free loan deals do exist – and when you really need to access extra cash, they can be an economical and useful financial tool.
They can also help you get your finances back under control, by chopping the amount of interest you’re already paying on debts.
Here, I’m going to highlight three good ways of getting interest-free cash.
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