While the amount of revenue generated by the television channels can be debated the document stated, “Currently, the Dodger’s ticket prices are relatively inexpensive and there is substantial room for prices to increase without resulting in a decline in attendance.”

To translate: we want Dodger fans to pay the price of us owning two soccer clubs.

To be fair the document also states that most of the price increases will be isolated to the premium seats. However it’s easy to see through the bullshit when the Dodgers have increased the price of “cheap seats” such as the top deck to $15 on game day and the left field pavilion to $18 on game day. The Dodgers have also introduced higher advanced ticket prices for Friday and Saturday games, and single game tickets will not be sold for their series against the New York Yankees but will be reserved for those who purchase mini plans and season tickets.

Fans will pay for quality as evidenced by the Lakers, and McCourt has repeatedly assured that he will always strive to field a quality team and ensure the Dodgers are in the upper quarter in the Major League in player salary.

Well the documents do not have player payroll increasing in proportion to revenues. In fact they plan on decreasing the percentage from around 40 at where it is now to around 25 by 2013 with it stabilizing until 2018 – from $132 million last season to $107 million this season with slight increases to $125 million in 2018.

I should reiterate that all of these numbers are very theoretical and does not reflect what will really happen. But with the intentions behind the numbers and the revelation Tuesday night from Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times that the McCourts have not paid a cent of federal or state taxes since 2004, it’s clear the McCourts have little respect to the Dodger legacy and the loyalty of Dodger fans.

The Dodgers and Dodger fans are mere pawns in the hyper-capitalist game for the McCourts to have the biggest toy chest. Four homes in Malibu, four homes in Holmby Hills, a legendary baseball franchise, a soccer club in an emerging market, and a soccer club in the most popular sports league in the world?

These are all excesses that Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI would totally spooge over, and the McCourts don’t care who they have to trample over to get what they want – even each other. I suppose we'll just have to eat our cake.

Last year, the Chicago city council expressed outrage when the Art Institute DARED to raise admission prices. They even went so far as to threaten to levy Chicago Park District sanctions if the museum insisted on retaining the increases. (The Art Institute leases their property from the C.P.D.)

Yet year after year, eight out of the last nine as the article states, the Bears are given carte blanche to rake Chicagoans over the coals to line the pockets of a few in a privately owned company leasing and playing on park district property as well (Soldier Field), without even the slightest whimper from the aldermen and Richie Daley.

The silence is deafening. And sickening.

While the amount of revenue generated by the television channels can be debated the document stated, “Currently, the Dodger’s ticket prices are relatively inexpensive and there is substantial room for prices to increase without resulting in a decline in attendance.”

To translate: we want Dodger fans to pay the price of us owning two soccer clubs.

To be fair the document also states that most of the price increases will be isolated to the premium seats. However it’s easy to see through the bullshit when the Dodgers have increased the price of “cheap seats” such as the top deck to $15 on game day and the left field pavilion to $18 on game day. The Dodgers have also introduced higher advanced ticket prices for Friday and Saturday games, and single game tickets will not be sold for their series against the New York Yankees but will be reserved for those who purchase mini plans and season tickets.

Fans will pay for quality as evidenced by the Lakers, and McCourt has repeatedly assured that he will always strive to field a quality team and ensure the Dodgers are in the upper quarter in the Major League in player salary.

Well the documents do not have player payroll increasing in proportion to revenues. In fact they plan on decreasing the percentage from around 40 at where it is now to around 25 by 2013 with it stabilizing until 2018 – from $132 million last season to $107 million this season with slight increases to $125 million in 2018.

I should reiterate that all of these numbers are very theoretical and does not reflect what will really happen. But with the intentions behind the numbers and the revelation Tuesday night from Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times that the McCourts have not paid a cent of federal or state taxes since 2004, it’s clear the McCourts have little respect to the Dodger legacy and the loyalty of Dodger fans.

The Dodgers and Dodger fans are mere pawns in the hyper-capitalist game for the McCourts to have the biggest toy chest. Four homes in Malibu, four homes in Holmby Hills, a legendary baseball franchise, a soccer club in an emerging market, and a soccer club in the most popular sports league in the world?

These are all excesses that Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI would totally spooge over, and the McCourts don’t care who they have to trample over to get what they want – even each other. I suppose we'll just have to eat our cake.

Last year, the Chicago city council expressed outrage when the Art Institute DARED to raise admission prices. They even went so far as to threaten to levy Chicago Park District sanctions if the museum insisted on retaining the increases. (The Art Institute leases their property from the C.P.D.)

Yet year after year, eight out of the last nine as the article states, the Bears are given carte blanche to rake Chicagoans over the coals to line the pockets of a few in a privately owned company leasing and playing on park district property as well (Soldier Field), without even the slightest whimper from the aldermen and Richie Daley.

The silence is deafening. And sickening.

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The bad news is that most reform comes when the existing system collpases rather than when it becomes clear that the math predicts insolvency. The good news is that reforms can work well. They change the game more quickly than expected because a savings base is formed and a huge part of the population are active capitalists. Chile is center-left politically but pretty conservative with economic policy because everyone loses when politicians start attacking private sector players or draining resources.

The actuarial reality is not liberal or conservative. The whole basis for our particular system hinged on ever expanding demographic growth in the working age category (from births, from adding work force participants and/or by moving up the retirement age.) What saved SS in the 1980's wasn't tweaking some payments or adding to retirement age, it was massive inflow of women into the workforce. Massive inflows of immigrants in the 1990's have helped FICA. There are non FICA costs to school districts, healthcare, law enforcement, etc. but FICA has benefited.

Increasing the defined benefit has been magic wand stuff – you assume that wealth will grow and productivity will increase. Social Security has played the magic game a bit through COLA and turning a blind eye to rampant fraud allowing ineligible recipients and criminals to tap payments. State and local governments have completely abdicated fiduciary responsibility and made defined benefit promises that are untethered to the tax base or common sense.It's heads I win, tail you lose for public sector employees. Stock market falls, tough luck, raise taxes and give my dough. In the private sector, companies go bankrupt and defined benefits end.

Part of the Chile story involved allowing people to choose to opt in or opt out of a private system if you were above a certain age. I think it was around 50. If you opted in, you kept the promised payments and the payments had to budgeted into the government budget. If you opted out, you received a credit based on past contributions but went to defined contribution and private accounts. Many more people opted in than pure actuarial analysis would have predicted largely because people don't trust politicians and want their own accounts.People decide if they want to retire early or work more, they can be frugal and pass savings on to their estate.

There is a safety net payment for the destitute but that is welfare not "retirement" and must be funded in each budget. You have to deal with larger reported deficits when making the move to allowing people to have their own accounts and the government is no longer robbing the funds to pay current bills. It is not as bad as it sounds and the system starts with indiviudal accounts having to allocate a percentage of investment to government bonds – something that is prudent anyway in a diversified portfolio.

Over time, most restrictions on where the investments go have been lifted and riskier investments allowed.People have separate broker accounts and could always allocate other savings to whatever level of risk they wanted.

It is not perfect but it is better than what we have and young and old pull together.

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1. that is one hell of a cut.

   Way too much!

    Posted by: Rob from myTTOOS |
   February 25, 2010 8:26 PM

2. That's certainly a huge cut but they are also providing the market infrastructure so maybe it's not too crazy.

    Posted by: Jesse P. Luna |
   February 25, 2010 9:43 PM

3. I think they might face a rude awakening if they put all their eggs in the micro-payments basket. Then again, maybe there is a huge silent hoarde chomping at the bit to drop pocket change on frivolous social-app distractions. We'll see I suppose.

   In any case, one would expect that they will dump some of the additional revenue into making the free services they offer more appealing and robust, which everyone will appreciate.

   If I get bugged to enter a credit card number whenever I click through the introductory screens of every random app I give passing attention, I'll be pretty annoyed for sure. They should try to avoid that.

   Posted by: Nate |
   February 26, 2010 3:11 AM

4. I find it interesting that game makers like Zynga are making so much money from people buying game currency that they are willing to give Facebook a 30% cut when people buy through Facebook credits.

   Consumers willing to spend on game items probably won't care very much where the money is going as long as they are getting the same 'value' no matter which payment method they are using.

   Posted by: Paula |
   February 26, 2010 8:47 AM

5. It'll be interesting to see if it takes off, but I won't be purchasing virtual credit to feed some pixellated sheep any time soon

   Posted by: Daniel |
   February 26, 2010 12:04 PM

6. It will be very interesting to see if the suspected increased commerce from facebook credits currency will more than offset losses from such heavy margins as 30%. I think if anything Facebook has given themselves some breathing room. For instance if there is a lot of resistance to 30% margin then they can always lower it and compromise. However, increasing it will always be a lot harder to do.
   I have created a quick post http://drivingonlinesales.com/?p=324 on the subject and linked back to here.

   Posted by: Wynne |
   February 26, 2010 4:59 PM

Michael Geist sez, “Howard Knopf has an absolute must-read post that lists 21 reasons why Canadian copyright law is already stronger than the U.S. Knopf's list includes the existence of the private copying levy, neighbouring rights, movie theatre payments for exhibiting films, moral rights, the fact that broadcasters pay more copyright royalties and educators pay more copyright royalties, and that fair dealing is more restrictive than fair use. There are many more – read the whole thing.”

For non-Canadians: an oft-heard reason for urgent reform to make Canadian copyright more restrictive is that the US government (and the US copyright lobby) say that Canadian copyright law is lax compared to the US version. Canada has even been put on copyright watchlists, along with countries like China and Russia.

1. Canada has about 36 copyright collectives, many of which have received substantial direct and indirect government subsidies. The U.S. has only about half a dozen, with no government support.

2. Canada has a full-time Copyright Board which has normally had four full time members plus a sitting or retired Judge as Chairman and currently about a dozen full time professional and administrative staff. The Board has enormous policy and, effectively, law making powers. No other country of which I am aware comes close to having such a large, permanent, powerful and full time copyright tribunal.

3. Broadcasters pay more for copyright royalties than their counterparts in the USA, much of it for rights that don't even exist in the USA – for example the “ephemeral right.”The U.S. provides an outright exemption in 17 USC §112 for the “ephemeral right.” Now, about $50-million a year more over and above is being demanded by a collective dominated by the American dominated record labels for this right in addition to amounts now collected by composers, authors and publishers.(Canada's Copyright Board heard a major case where this will be decided on commercial radio in December of 2008 and January of 2009. However, it will probably be at least 18 months to two years after the hearing before a decision is announced, based upon the timing of some recent major decisions from the Board.

4. The Canadian Copyright Board values each right under the Copyright Act brought before it separately, with little regard to the layering and multiplicity of tariffs that result, in effect, for the same transaction. Whether this is an error in approach by the Board, and/or in policy, and/or in legislative drafting or at all is subject to fair debate. But the fact is that U.S. law goes to great length to avoid such a result, as recent court decisions have confirmed…

The Annual “301″ Show – USTR Calls for Comment – 21 Reasons Why Canadian Copyright Law is Already Stronger Than USA's

(Thanks, Michael!)

I'm an online bookseller, so the primary way I make money on the web is through selling my used books and the occasional DVD. This requires me to store inventory and actually package and ship a product. I love my job and fortunately have a large house, so storing books is not a problem; I know not everyone has access to this kind of storage. As I've looked for other ways to generate income, I've discovered a few ways that people make money online, legally, that don't require you to store or ship a product. Instead, you need to be able to provide what many internet surfers are looking for: quality information or content. If you like to write or are good at organizing information into interesting formats, these methods might work for you to help generate some extra income.

Make money on the web through article sites like Associated Content and Bukisa:
If you enjoy writing and can write short (400-800 words are ideal) informative articles, you can post them on article sites like Associated Content and Bukisa and make money through either upfront offers and/or page views. The money from these sites tend to come in slowly, often pennies at a time, but as you build up your article library you can find a steady stream of income coming in. At the time of this article's publication I'm averaging about $25 a month on page views from Associated Content. Others on this site, I know, are making up to $200 or more a month on page views alone, as well as a steady income on upfront payments for their articles.

The next two legal ways of making money on the web without inventory require you to have your own website and/or blog site or newsletter that you update regularly, to generate a steady stream of new web visitors.

Make money on the web through Google Adsense:
Most people are familiar with the Google ads you see at the tops and side of web pages. The owners of these websites are actually paid each time someone clicks on these ads, anything from a few pennies to a dime at a time. If you have a website, online newsletter, or blog site, one of the easiest ways to generate a little extra money is to join the free Google Adsense program and incorporate Google's ads into your web pages. You will discover that you have considerable freedom in how you want to design your Google ads: in towers on the side or across the top, generated based on your web page's content, or as a result of a Google search engine. One powerful option of Google Adsense is that you can set up the Google search engine so that it will only search your website/domain and generate appropriate Google ads above the results of the search. You can see an example of this at my website: here.

Make money on the web through affiliate programs:
Affiliate programs are extremely popular on the web and can be tailored to just about any kind of newsletter, website, or blog. You include a link to the “parent” website with a special code on your web pages and if your visitor actually buys a product through the “parent” website you receive a commission (usually between 5%-10%) of that sale, and possibly any sales from that customer for a limited amount of time. (This is where the concepts of “cookies” come in; this is how your visitors are tracked and you receive credit.) The key to including affiliate links is to think of what products or sites your visitor is likely to be interested in based on your content. If you are reviewing a specific book, for example, that is likely to still be in print, it make sense to include an affiliate link to Amazon where your visitor can easily purchase this book. If your site is focused on the bibliography of your favorite author and most of her books are out of print, it makes sense to include affiliate links to Abebooks, Alibris or Biblio where your web visitor can search for used copies for sale. Most affiliate programs offer the option of tailoring their links and ads to meet a variety of needs: link to a specific product, link to a specific ad or banner, or link to a search engine. If you are interested in adding affiliate links to your web pages from your favorite online company, check their home pages for a link at the bottom or top that says simply “Affiliate Program” to read the relevant FAQs.

Concluding remarks: How much money can I make with Google ads and affiliate links?
That's up to you. Seriously. I have a friend who has a homemaking website who makes hundreds of dollars a month from affiliate links and Google ads. But keeping her website updated with new and relevant content is a part time job. She's also been at it for several years now and through her persistence and by providing a quality information product now has a committed and loyal following through an e-mail newsletter. Like everything else, these money making techniques require work and effort to succeed. If you enjoy writing about your content subject and find ways to incorporate your affiliate links and Google ads creatively and logically into your newsletter, website, or blog, I would expect that the money will eventually follow. As you are first starting out, consider advertising your content through such social networking sites as Facebook and Twitter.

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1. that is one hell of a cut.

   Way too much!

    Posted by: Rob from myTTOOS |
   February 25, 2010 8:26 PM

2. That's certainly a huge cut but they are also providing the market infrastructure so maybe it's not too crazy.

    Posted by: Jesse P. Luna |
   February 25, 2010 9:43 PM

3. I think they might face a rude awakening if they put all their eggs in the micro-payments basket. Then again, maybe there is a huge silent hoarde chomping at the bit to drop pocket change on frivolous social-app distractions. We'll see I suppose.

   In any case, one would expect that they will dump some of the additional revenue into making the free services they offer more appealing and robust, which everyone will appreciate.

   If I get bugged to enter a credit card number whenever I click through the introductory screens of every random app I give passing attention, I'll be pretty annoyed for sure. They should try to avoid that.

   Posted by: Nate |
   February 26, 2010 3:11 AM

4. I find it interesting that game makers like Zynga are making so much money from people buying game currency that they are willing to give Facebook a 30% cut when people buy through Facebook credits.

   Consumers willing to spend on game items probably won't care very much where the money is going as long as they are getting the same 'value' no matter which payment method they are using.

   Posted by: Paula |
   February 26, 2010 8:47 AM

5. It'll be interesting to see if it takes off, but I won't be purchasing virtual credit to feed some pixellated sheep any time soon

   Posted by: Daniel |
   February 26, 2010 12:04 PM

6. It will be very interesting to see if the suspected increased commerce from facebook credits currency will more than offset losses from such heavy margins as 30%. I think if anything Facebook has given themselves some breathing room. For instance if there is a lot of resistance to 30% margin then they can always lower it and compromise. However, increasing it will always be a lot harder to do.
   I have created a quick post http://drivingonlinesales.com/?p=324 on the subject and linked back to here.

   Posted by: Wynne |
   February 26, 2010 4:59 PM

Michael Geist sez, “Howard Knopf has an absolute must-read post that lists 21 reasons why Canadian copyright law is already stronger than the U.S. Knopf's list includes the existence of the private copying levy, neighbouring rights, movie theatre payments for exhibiting films, moral rights, the fact that broadcasters pay more copyright royalties and educators pay more copyright royalties, and that fair dealing is more restrictive than fair use. There are many more – read the whole thing.”

For non-Canadians: an oft-heard reason for urgent reform to make Canadian copyright more restrictive is that the US government (and the US copyright lobby) say that Canadian copyright law is lax compared to the US version. Canada has even been put on copyright watchlists, along with countries like China and Russia.

1. Canada has about 36 copyright collectives, many of which have received substantial direct and indirect government subsidies. The U.S. has only about half a dozen, with no government support.

2. Canada has a full-time Copyright Board which has normally had four full time members plus a sitting or retired Judge as Chairman and currently about a dozen full time professional and administrative staff. The Board has enormous policy and, effectively, law making powers. No other country of which I am aware comes close to having such a large, permanent, powerful and full time copyright tribunal.

3. Broadcasters pay more for copyright royalties than their counterparts in the USA, much of it for rights that don't even exist in the USA – for example the “ephemeral right.”The U.S. provides an outright exemption in 17 USC §112 for the “ephemeral right.” Now, about $50-million a year more over and above is being demanded by a collective dominated by the American dominated record labels for this right in addition to amounts now collected by composers, authors and publishers.(Canada's Copyright Board heard a major case where this will be decided on commercial radio in December of 2008 and January of 2009. However, it will probably be at least 18 months to two years after the hearing before a decision is announced, based upon the timing of some recent major decisions from the Board.

4. The Canadian Copyright Board values each right under the Copyright Act brought before it separately, with little regard to the layering and multiplicity of tariffs that result, in effect, for the same transaction. Whether this is an error in approach by the Board, and/or in policy, and/or in legislative drafting or at all is subject to fair debate. But the fact is that U.S. law goes to great length to avoid such a result, as recent court decisions have confirmed…

The Annual “301″ Show – USTR Calls for Comment – 21 Reasons Why Canadian Copyright Law is Already Stronger Than USA's

(Thanks, Michael!)



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A month after the earthquake, Haiti is a testament to human tenacity. In Port-au-Prince the other day, I saw people making bricks, cooking food on the street, retrieving usable planks from the rubble and using newly restored cell phone service to place calls to the outside world.

Haitians have begun to rebuild, using whatever they can find. All of us who care about this proud country's people must rally around them and turn this tragedy into an opportunity to help Haiti rethink and reconfigure.

Many have questioned whether the government in Port au Prince is up to the task of building a new nation that lifts people out of poverty and ends the negative cycle that has made Haiti the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

I do not share that view. The international community must do a better job this time in supporting the people of Haiti build a better tomorrow. First, we must first recognize that Haiti is a sovereign, democratic country that must take ownership of plans to construct a stronger, more resilient land. Experience has repeatedly demonstrated that solutions developed from the outside do not work.

In my talks with Haitian President René Préval, he has welcomed the international community's efforts to strengthen the government's ability to plan and lead the enormous task ahead. We can provide technical assistance and help Haiti harness the world's best talent in areas such as job creation, green energy and sustainable agriculture.

Some prominent voices have also called for the establishment of a multi-donor trust fund for Haiti. I support such a mechanism. But we need to be much more ambitious and go beyond just providing money; we need to partner with Haitians on new ideas of how to build the new Haiti. Reconstructing what was there before the earthquake is neither desirable nor sustainable. As President Preval told me, we need to help reconfigure Haiti for the 21st Century.

The Inter-American Development Bank is working with the World Bank, the United Nations, the European Union and bilateral donors on a post-disaster needs assessment for Haiti, which we expect to complete by mid-March. This assessment must be complemented by government leaders' strategic vision of what kind of country they want Haiti to be.

As donors prepare for our next conference, we are considering how best to organize a trust fund for Haiti and divide responsibilities. With 50 years of experience in Haiti and nearly $800 million in active development projects in the country at the time of the earthquake, the IDB stands ready to play a leading role in Haiti's reconfiguration.

Any multi-donor trust fund will require unquestioned transparency, a clear delegation of responsibilities and accountability. Such a fund must facilitate internal coordination within the Haitian government and external coordination among donors. The key is to minimize duplication and maximize the impact of aid dollars.

A trust fund for Haiti must publicly track the money flowing into the country and where it is going, ensuring that we streamline disbursements for projects, establish a uniform set of procurement standards and management practices and execute all reconstruction operations effectively and in the open.

The goal must be to place rebuilding efforts within a comprehensive development strategy. One need already identified by the Haitian government is decentralization, the establishment of housing and sustainable economic activity outside the capital. This is a chance for Haiti and its partners to build a reforested, rethought and renewed Haiti.

At the IDB, we are reviewing our undisbursed portfolio of $340 million in grants and loans to Haiti in the wake of the earthquake. Many of our projects for roads, water, sanitation and sustainable economic development are outside Port au Prince, in areas where tens of thousands have fled. With the government's agreement, we want to accelerate and expand these operations, working to attract new private investment that will be key to Haiti's future.

We are also working with the U.S. government and our other member nations to explore ways to bring further debt relief to Haiti. The IDB, as part of an international agreement, granted $511 million in debt relief to Haiti last year. A U.S.-sponsored fund is paying the country's debt service for Haiti's outstanding $447 million in IDB loans over the next two years, so no funds are leaving the country. But as several South American presidents agreed this week in their Haiti aid summit in Quito, Ecuador, we need to do more on debt relief, and we will.

But for any rebuilding strategy to work over the long term, donors must commit to follow through on their pledges. Already the TV cameras are starting to avert their gaze from Haiti. But the world must be ready to stay there for however long it takes.

The list of Haiti's needs is long and the time to move from the planning phase to execution is growing short. Let's listen to Haiti's leaders, coordinate our responsibilities and get to work rethinking and reconfiguring the new Haiti that its resilient people deserve.

Just when we found out how to define the “hipster,” we have another somewhat amorphous designation to deal with. Justin Richards in the New York Press describes the “Helpster,” a music-savvy, art-obsessed do-gooder who works to revitalize communities and promote activism.

Richards describes a recent They Might Be Giants/Nada Surf show in Brooklyn, which raised money to support a local cultural center. The typical hipster of '05 might dismiss this kind of community philanthropy as pass&eacute, or appear disinterested in engaging in productive, progressive dialogue. It turns out, however, that those Richards describes in Williamsburg do have opinions and a desire to make positive changes.

From The New York Press:

New York Cares, the city's leading volunteer organization, saw a 30 percent increase in volunteers from 2008 to 2009. That's approximately 1,100 New Yorkers who decided to spend large amounts of time working without compensation in hopes of making other people's lives better. A full 60 percent were between the ages 18 and 34.

Curious about the surge of interest, the organization delivered a survey to each of the newly recruited. One in five said they were motivated by Obama's call to service at his inauguration, and another 30 percent acknowledged a recent change in their employment. In the absence of lucrative employment, these young men and women have been committing the energy once squandered on office jobs to a less selfish use. But the recession and Obamamania are both on the wane, and whether the new altruism will dissipate along with them remains to be told.

It's not an easy conversion for all hipsters, however. Some volunteers express concern at the hesitance many in their communities have to give their time “if there's not beer involved.”

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Have you ever wondered why you can't get your debt under control? Or why you can't able to do something to save for retirement? Why do you feel disappointed and discouraged about how to make investments in the stock market? Did you ever find yourself thinking that you're missing important information that your finances come together and eventually useful, but don't know where to find?

You're not alone. Millions of people feel hopelessly confused about how they manage their money. What's because we have never really learned how to manage their finances. It isn't taught in schools or at home, and certainly isn't divided by the gurus of Wall Street. Most of the financial world preys on your ignorance and frustration, to benefit from the sale of investments, insurance products or reduce the debt, sometimes to relieve some symptoms, but don't address the real problems. At the core of these problems, you have a coach. Athletes, executives, Hollywood stars and all the coaches use to help them perform their best ever. A personal financial coach can help you find out the strengths and weaknesses and give you the personal perspectives need all pieces of the puzzle in a way that makes sense for you.

There are many financial advisors, gurus and experts are willing to share this puzzle. Unfortunately, many of them do not understand how all the pieces put together so it makes sense, or to use another analogy, I do not know the right “recipe” to true financial mastery. Some advisers offer all the ingredients for this recipe, but don't tell you in what order of 'bake' to them.

Others know the order, but don't know how much of a certain ingredient to include. In addition to that don't know the recipe for success, there are people who know, but are not willing to share, because the intention of taking their advice and the sale of expensive financial products instead of the giving ingredients so managing your money. While these products often can earn them by the Commission seem heavy and vendors to help create a perfect result, they rarely solve the global problem and can sometimes make finances worse.

You have a financial expert who knows all the ingredients necessary to gain control, increase cash flow, and begin to create real wealth and prosperity. Someone who is willing to learn all of these ingredients, the order will be added to your financial life, and the quantity of each ingredient needed for personal debt reduction, control of spending, saving for their retirement to maximize the protect your property taxes and the decline of the market.

To summarize, you need a specialist investment that will offer more lucrative ways to invest your hard earned money.

Now lots of people are concerned about retirement investing. Surely there are no universal solutions on retirement investing market that can please everybody. But if you do your own due diligence of what is offered on this market – it will be a lot easier to make a wise and well thought retirement plan choice.

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But the host of All Things Considered points out that Move Your Money smells a little like a populist movement meant to let consumers strike back against the big banks that they feel powerless against. A bank analyst named Bert Ely says the idea of “punishing” big banks is absurd, and like spitting into the ocean as far as being any sort of movement to effect change. He admits that he banks with a community bank, but that some customers may not be as well-served at the local level if they move their money without making sure the community bank can meet their needs.

Former IMF economist Simon Johnson counters that it's not about punishment, even if that's the first thing people think of when they hear about this idea. (Our first post on the campaign was tagged, “Revenge.”) Rather, moving your money to a community bank is a good idea purely out of self-interest:

NPR: “But why punish the banks if they have almost all paid back what was essentially an investment by the federal government?” [i.e. TARP funds]

Johnson: “It's not about punishment, it's about responsibility, about people looking forward, and saying, 'How comfortable am I with the largest six banks in this economy now having total assets–which of course come from their liabilities, which is money they get from us–total assets of over 60% of the size of our economy, 60% of GDP?' That's a big banking system that's more concentrated than in the past–those same six banks back in the 1990s were less than 20% of GDP.”

Here's the Move Your Money promo-video mentioned on the program:

Move Your Money

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Money And Message

By Kleinheider
Posted on February 4, 2010 at 7:57 am

Mike Morrow on the governor’s race:

So the race is beginning to be more about message than money, for those who have the luxury of making it so. Trying to campaign without resources is virtually impossible.

It’s a reminder that in politics, as in life, money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can buy peace of mind.

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But the host of All Things Considered points out that Move Your Money smells a little like a populist movement meant to let consumers strike back against the big banks that they feel powerless against. A bank analyst named Bert Ely says the idea of “punishing” big banks is absurd, and like spitting into the ocean as far as being any sort of movement to effect change. He admits that he banks with a community bank, but that some customers may not be as well-served at the local level if they move their money without making sure the community bank can meet their needs.

Former IMF economist Simon Johnson counters that it's not about punishment, even if that's the first thing people think of when they hear about this idea. (Our first post on the campaign was tagged, “Revenge.”) Rather, moving your money to a community bank is a good idea purely out of self-interest:

NPR: “But why punish the banks if they have almost all paid back what was essentially an investment by the federal government?” [i.e. TARP funds]

Johnson: “It's not about punishment, it's about responsibility, about people looking forward, and saying, 'How comfortable am I with the largest six banks in this economy now having total assets–which of course come from their liabilities, which is money they get from us–total assets of over 60% of the size of our economy, 60% of GDP?' That's a big banking system that's more concentrated than in the past–those same six banks back in the 1990s were less than 20% of GDP.”

Here's the Move Your Money promo-video mentioned on the program:

Move Your Money

RELATED
“Move Your Money From Big Banks To Small Ones”

Money And Message

By Kleinheider
Posted on February 4, 2010 at 7:57 am

Mike Morrow on the governor’s race:

So the race is beginning to be more about message than money, for those who have the luxury of making it so. Trying to campaign without resources is virtually impossible.

It’s a reminder that in politics, as in life, money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can buy peace of mind.

Teens prefer reading <b>news</b> online to Twitter | Media | guardian.co.uk

While most teenagers reject Twitter and blogging, 62% of them like to read their <b>news</b> online, US research reveals. By Mercedes Bunz.

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