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April 30, 2009

Investing Without Brakes

Filed under: House Of Investment @ 12:38 pm

The business of investing in stocks is an inventory ‘buying & selling’ business. Naturally, the companies that sell stock to the public want you to buy and hold it forever in order to maintain its value. But, if you are buying without any selling, you are literally driving without any brakes. That is a horrifyingly unsafe position for your principal. The most effective defensive brake system for your money is a stop-loss order on your stocks.

A stop-loss order is an order you give your broker to sell your shares if a stock falls below a certain price. You can select a stop-loss price for your stock based upon chart patterns, or a percentage drop from your purchase price, and some brokers automatically move them as a stock moves up in price to lock in profits for you.

The first time I learned this lesson (not the last unfortunately), I was just 18 years old. One of my early stock purchases, a stockbroker from a famous brokerage firm recommended that I buy stock in a famous airline; just before it trailed off into bankruptcy. Had I read this article before the airlines’ financial calamity, I would have rescued most of my $5,000 and prevented my own financial calamity.

But you cry, “The greatest investor Warren Buffett is a buy & hold investor!” No, I’m afraid he is not. Mr. Buffett mainly buys whole companies or controlling interest in a company. He buys control so that if there are problems with the company, he can hire/fire/make changes. If there are critical problems with the company whose stock you own, the only control you have to protect your principal is to sell.

When a public company goes go bankrupt, 70% of the time, the shareholders receive no money at all. How many stocks do you want in your portfolio worth $0? I know exactly how many I that want, and I know that stop-loss orders prevent it from happening.

There are a few ‘loss-recovery’ methods, but you’ll never sell enough covered calls to recover from a stock trading under $5, or be able to buy puts on a stock that has been de-listed from an exchange. But the nearly certain protection is to place a stop-loss order on the stocks you own. You can choose any percentage loss amount (5%-25%) based on your experience, but you must have a stop-loss order in place to protect your capital.

There a zillions of old stock market sayings. Here is one of them for those of you who are still skeptical, “If the smart-money has sold and moved on, what type of money still own the stock?”

Francis Kier has two degrees in finance and shares his two decades of experience with investing and personal finance. More of his articles are available at http://investing.real-solution-center.com

A Watery Vegetable

Filed under: Fit Men, Fit Women, Food, Online Health @ 7:00 am

Water is a beautiful thing, and we get it from numerous sources. We don’t need to rely solely on the tap or bottled water for getting our required daily amount (something like 1.5-2litres a day). We get water from other beverages including hot drinks and fruit juices, we also get water from foods, particularly fruits and vegetables. Spinach is one of the wateriest vegetables you are likely to come across (actually tomatoes give off a good juicy spurt as well). But spinach, now that’s something else. You’ll have noticed that when you by a huge bag of the stuff, you’ll end up using the whole lot just to serve two people. When you boil spinach in water, it’s important to remember not to use too much water in the process, as an extraordinary amount of water is released from the vegetable in the process of cooking. As the spinach wilts down to a mere shadow of is former self, you’ll also notice that it is darker in colour. I don’t know why that is but it has something to do with the fact that the spinach has decreased in volume. It’s funny that with most fruits, when they’re hydrated they plump up (dried apricots and raisins) whereas spinach does the opposite.

April 27, 2009

The Mathematics of Foreclosure

Filed under: Cash + Credit + More, Finance, Help + Advice @ 5:20 am

Bankruptcy is a legal act that is registered by somebody who cannot pay his debt. If the consumer is in bankruptcy then all the civil legal proceedings related to the mortgage will be halted. As such, legally, a home loan lender has to cease all collection activity including, but not limited to, foreclosure. However, a lender can be permitted to continue if they appeal for relief from the stay period; and if it is permitted, can go ahead with the previously mentioned action. Declaring Bankruptcy will not halt foreclosure and you must still repay your loan. Going into bankruptcy simply makes the foreclosure continue slower, it can not resolve the underlying issues.

Sometimes consumers will need to choose between filing for bankruptcy or permitting their mortgage lender to foreclose on their home. If bi-weekly or monthly mortgage payments are not received as scheduled, the financial institution will file a foreclosure on the home. The single guaranteed way to halt this from taking place is to pay the mortgage lender as agreed. Mortgage loans are very similar to auto loans, if you do not make payments you always will have it repossessed. Foreclosure is the same for everyone who has not paid her house loan, the lender can foreclose on the loan.

Even though insolvency can not completely end foreclosure, it will allow an individual more time to repay the overdue portion or at a minimum it can make it little more accessible to repay a home loan lender. Bankruptcy law necessitates a mortgage lender to freeze foreclosure actions, a debtor has a little time to produce the cash to pay back the lender. Bankruptcy is the last resort for all borrowers. This will eventually happen when she is completely incapable of paying their lenders’ commitments. With bankruptcy, some debt will in all likelihood be discharged but the mortgage will not. The home loan borrower must be willing and able to pay back the mortgage within the given time as the debt is guaranteed by real assets. In addition, Chapter 13 bankruptcy has a pay schedule that will be court-ordered, that allows the borrower make payments on her real estate loan to get caught up on their balance.

Before the borrower can file for bankruptcy, they must meet the standards. If they do qualify, there are legal fees incurred. Possibly, it may cost the home owner more in legal fees than it does to just knuckle down and clear the backlog of payments owed. If you know somebody that is thinking that filing for bankruptcy will be a solution to the situation, a bankruptcy lawyer will likely be capable of answering whatever questions. Because insolvency proceedings are very detailed, the home owner really ought not attempt to do it on their own.

This is not legal advice. Contact a bankruptcy attorney in your municipality for bankruptcy advice advice.

TIES that BIND

Filed under: Spiritual Resources @ 2:05 am

I have no idea how it started or who launched it. Nevertheless years after all of the women in my family died (they were the initiators of all of our major family events and thingamajigs). After the demise of these women our family unit was left largely comprised of men). In recent years, I started paying attention to remarks that I’d heard growing up and today continually heard from other family members about how our family is considerably dissimilar or substantially distant from each other and how we were markedly contrasted from that of other families. As a young adult, I sold into that inconsistency and I eventually started to believe it. Now, from top to bottom I fervently want to know how this mis-perception spawned. I had to see for myself if this “assumption” holds water.

For years, we never even batted an eye when someone described our clan as being “distantly different” or because we were just “living our own lives” and rarely visited or even spoke to one another on more of a consistent basis. (Some live in different cities within Chicago or have moved from Illinois altogether). That action or lack thereof was justified by some with the remark of “well you know how we are”. Only recently have I begun to exasperatingly resent whenever I heard that comment.

As I frequently do when a believable answer is not plausible enough to curb my ever-voracious appetite for the curious, I allow my mind to journey into an objective mode. Consequently, I intellectually remove myself from my customary “family character” sanctioning a view of my kinfolk with an unprejudiced angle.

Having had to listen to this misconception for years and years, today I finally am challenging myself to try and change it. I want to finally set the record straight. I hope after some have read this story, I won’t have to hear it anymore because it won’t be uttered. At least not in my hearing range.

I am returning from a trip to Windy City Chicago where I grew up. During my visit with my family, my eyes were opened to a host of existing modifications although some were new ones to me. I say with resounding pride, the changes that I witnessed were heart-rending.

First and foremost, two of my cousins have recently married amazing women who support and love them very much. Both have darling children under five years old that kept one of my cousin and his wife nothing short of being on their toes.

It seemed only yesterday when my sister, cousins and I were the ones running around during family get-togethers. We were the cores of attention and all of our uncles; aunts and senior cousins were doting on US. Here and now WE are the ones who have traded places with those elders (some have passed on while others are well into retirement years and/or in ill health), and now WE dote on OUR offspring and grandchildren. This new-fangled exchange of ranks swiftly required me to come to grips with my own mortality. These scenarios were continually restated inside my psyche and I was once more reminded that time waits for no one.

My only niece (the ravishing beaut that she is, used to stick to me like glue back in the day and always wanted to follow me EVERYWHERE) now has a bubbly daughter of her own! I am still coming to grips with THAT one because it seemed to have happened over night.

It’s reflective to see my cousin (who can be described as eye candy and is as fine as the Denzel Washington’s and the Shamaar Moore’s all skillfully wrapped in one crisp package, and has the deep dimples just like my sister has. He is the Editor of his OWN newspaper. He sat and interfaced with our relatives and articulately discussed in meticulous terms “grown folk” talk with the best of em. (I’m sure he will love reading me write that I used to change his diapers!).

When I gaze into the faces of my niece and this particular cousin, I still envision them as they were in babyhood. Inasmuch as I try not to view them in that manner, I am helpless. It’s as though I’m lovingly gazing into the faces of my very own son and daughter when I first brought them home from the hospital.

Another cousin is writing a book (no I am NOT the only writer in my family by a long shot!!). He and I were as thick as thieves when we were teens and we were always getting into mischief. Although when we were caught, he was the one who was able to maintain a straight face (same holds true today) hence, since I did not have as much restraint as he, I’d always burst into tearstained laughter and ultimately end up taking the fall for our blunders.

He and I enjoyed a heartfelt tear-jerking laugh about an OLD, OLD joke. The familiar vibe that we shared as teenagers still remained as comfortable and familiar as an old pair of socks. I finally had the opportunity to finally meet his wife along with his three sons. He has a family to be proud of. He has done well for himself and I am proud of him.

Yet another cousin has his own sound production company. He does the “sound” at concerts of popular recording artists and a lot of his clientele are the ones that we see and hear on videos and radio. I had the opportunity to sit and talk at length with his daughter (who is named after one of my favorite aunts who passed away a long time ago). She is furthering her education and is on her way to success. I beam with pride when I hear the strides that the young people in my family are making.

Because of the geographical distance that I created in my life the family-tie, as I knew it back then will never be the same with my cousins and my niece. People grow up, procreate and begin to build a life interdependent of the lives that they experienced with their immediate family. But aren’t these types of transitions supposed to happen? Due to the “modernity” in and of my family tree, I have accepted this latest trend along with the new position that it puts me in realizing it’s not worse, nor better, it’s just different. Hey it is what it is and life goes on.

A few of the aged and pre-existing changes were not immediately recognizable from the naked eye. Maybe it was because they weren’t CHANGES at all, but had always been an actuality amongst our family. All anyone needed to do to see it clearly was to take a visually detailed gander and there it was in full view. The reality of what I saw pertaining to my family as a whole is that the women as well as the men have ALWAYS maintained steady employment. I’m not talking about 5 years here, 3 years there. I’m talking employment of the fixed kind. You know the types. The ones who have been at the very SAME job for 30 plus years. THOSE FOLK. I know you have a few of those in your family too. Most families do. These people have spent protracted years at one job. Today they have retired from their places of employment and are living the remainder of their lives in harmony and repose. This is what people naturally do after no longer being able to do what they’ve been accustomed to doing for a great portion of their lives. Others have left one job and taken on another. God Bless em. When I retire from one job that’s it for me!!!!!! Everyday I am trying to ensure that my retirement will be just that. RETIREMENT!

With that said, I fail to see how my family “differs”. Where is the true dysfunction? I say “true” because all families exhibit some sort of idiosyncratic behavior within itself. Each family has lapses of time that they go without seeing or speaking, especially if distance is a factor. Each family has members that they don’t like or don’t like as much. There are always gonna be quirks, behavior or personality differences or traits amongst relatives that agitate some. The fact of the matter is that we will never like all of our relatives. There will always be one, two or maybe a handful of our kin that irks the heck out of us no matter what they do or don’t do. I am sure that I drive others to the brink of combustion with the idiosyncrasies that I’ve had all of my life!! Those are just the factual realities of having family. Nevertheless we indulge or ignore them and make no material issue of it. We tolerate these differences or minor annoyances because we ARE family and we are all tied. The importance of the closeness that we all share should outweigh the insignificant irritants. The end result is the difference between what matters most and what matters much.

The most dominant virtues that really caught my attention were that none of us are drug abusers. None of us have been in jail, or have criminal records. None of the men or women were physically abusive to or abused by their significant other. Not one of my family members even smokes cigarettes, not ONE!!! In a distressed world such as we live in today, the former characteristics are momentous and say an awful lot about a person, more importantly an entire family. Are we unusually different because we live our lives as productive members of society? Beats me.

I’ll admit that we were all guilty of being distant for a while. When most of the women started dropping like dead flies no one knew how to behave as “family” anymore I surmise. For years we remained in devastation. We are guilty of that. So sue us.

Sentence us if you will because for years every woman (who was the glue that normally kept the reunion that is coupled with FAMILY in tact) got sick and eventually died a slow, painful death from cancer of some sort. Therefore, leaving the men to do what those women who passed on did best. The men that were left had no interest whatsoever in calling relatives to plan a thanksgiving dinner, a birthday party or a weekend hob knob. They didn’t have to. They simply moseyed on over to a girlfriends house, or a neighbors house or your local diner and grabbed a meal. What I’m trying to say is, it was the women, at least in my family back in the day, that orchestrated EVERYTHING. With them no longer amongst us, the men were at a loss.

As the existing women grew up and got married, we gravitated to the women in our new family. It was/is a natural progression or so it seemed. We took the position of planner and orchestraters. We were the ones that made those phone calls and invited our mate’s relatives to OUR home for the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and so forth. I guess once we pass on, if there are no women left to pick up where we left off, then this yesteryear will repeat itself.

The points of view to remember here are the relatives that I have are family members of mine. I claim them with all of their eccentricities, peculiarities, quirks, foibles and unconventional behaviors. We all have them and no one is perfect. We are all woven from the same threads of cloth. They are part of who I am today. They are the blood that travels inconspicuously throughout my veins that thrusts life into me. They are my roots and my end and my beginning. They are my sounding board and my cushion.

I had to travel back to Windy City Chicago and I thought I was going back to visit an ill uncle and to establish some semblance of a re-connect with those that distance and time pulled me from and I’m glad that I did travel back.

I realize that I have a family that anyone in their right mind would be fortunate to admit and recognize as being their family. I have people that are part of me who are editors, musicians, soundmen and writers. Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t these some of the same job titles that we see when credits are being rolled at the end of a movie? Aren’t these some of the positions that most rattle their brain spending countless hours studying to become while attending Ivy League Schools across the United States? And here I am lucky enough to have members of such within MY very own family. Sure we might not see or speak to each other every day. But I guarantee you if I needed them I mean REALLY needed them, they would be there for me in a heartbeat. I can say that now but TRUST ME I didn’t always feel this way.

When I was married I naively believed that I no longer needed my biological family. (I was harboring resentment for my mom because she told me when I was a young girl that my biological dad was dead. A lot of my family knew the truth and since no one told me any different I was angry with everyone when I found out the real deal behind this “daddy business”. Years later, and with profound heartache and disappointment, I found out not only was my dad alive but within the last ten years, he was released from prison for murdering the husband of a woman that he was seeing when he was supposedly dating my mom. My mom didn’t want us to associate with him and that is why she told us that he was dead. I have to admit this was the one time that I was sorry that I was always so inquisitive. To this day, I do not even know my father’s name nor do I want to. Luckily, my mom and dad never married so I can thankfully say that he is not part of my wonderful family unit). I had buried my ” natural family” in my hurt and tears. Hadn’t I experienced enough hurt and pain in my OWN life? I thought.

I blamed my entire family for a bad judgment call on the part of my mother. They all thought that I knew my dad was alive, at least. Imagine MY devastation when THAT news was laid on me!! Whew!!!!!!!!! But true to form, eventually I bounced back. Lots of families are full of drama but mine was full of death and trauma. No wonder we were taken aback. It took years for us to recover after loosing so many women so quickly. We needed a minute to regroup, refocus and invent another game plan wouldn’t you say? What family wouldn’t?? But we all managed to survive. I come from an entire generation of survivors.

My wake-up call came when I divorced and the family that I thought would always be there for me ultimately was not. Eventually I was slowly ostracized from them. After that happened I didn’t feel as though I belonged to “anyone” or “anywhere”. I didn’t feel I belonged to a “family” unit.

If you’re married and you think the family that you married into will be there for you, get a divorce. On second thought go for the gusto and just get separated. There is no other way to remind one that blood although often doubted, is ALWAYS thicker than water. I encourage you to e-mail me and let me know the end result if you so desire.

Point being is I was drawn back to the very same biological family that I tried unsuccessfully to deny and ignore. It just goes to show you that we are always drawn back to our roots for something. It is an inevitability that we cannot deny. I know I could not and no longer want to deny mine. Thank God there is a lesson to learn every day. Where would I be without MY family???

Today, this writer doesn’t care how it started or who launched it. It doesn’t matter how “dysfunctionally dissimilar” people think we are, be it a relative or someone on the outside. We are all part of the same gene and love one another. Maybe we have a quiet way of showing it. Maybe we don’t exhibit our love in terms of how society dictates that we should. But the bottom line is we are all linked as one no matter how much some fight it, hide it, run away from it, disown it, cover it up, ignore it or deny it. WE ARE FAMILY. As far as I’m concerned, my family is a great-big-deal. My family is the one bind that I don’t mind being tied to for these are MY TIES that BIND.

© 2005 by C. V. Harris. All rights reserved.

The true story of how one womans visit back to Windy City Chicago prompted her to view her family the way they “really are” realizing that her family is comprised of true survivors.

The Power Of Compounding

Filed under: House Of Investment @ 12:05 am

Compounding is interest earning interest and it is powerful because as the interest that is earned by the initial capital also earns interest, the value of the account grows at a geometric (ever-increasing) rate, rather than an arithmetic (straight-line) rate.

AN EXAMPLE OF HOW COMPOUNDING WORKS

Two investors have $1,000 each to invest every year in a mutual fund, leaving the dividends to compound. Investor A’s fund provides an 7.9% annual return, while Investor B’s fund returns only 4.1%. While Investor A’s rate of return is twice that of Investor B’s, over time the increase is significantly more than twice as much. After 10 years, Investor A’s gain is 2.2 times greater, and after 20 years, it is 2.6 times greater.

                     Investor A     Investor B
 Rate of return          7.9.0%          4.1%
 10-year gain             44.9%         20.1%
 20-year gain            128.8%         48.9%

Remember that examples in articles and on the website are for illustrative purposes only and do depict the actual performance of any fund. A mutual fund’s investment return and share value will fluctuate.

PUT COMPOUNDING TO WORK FOR YOU

Reinvest dividends

Instead of taking your mutual fund’s distributions in cash, instruct your fund to let them remain in your account to purchase additional shares. Most companies will allow you to do this without paying an additional sales charge.

Invest regularly

Add to your mutual fund account on a regular basis, perhaps monthly or quarterly. You may be able to have this done automatically by setting up a systematic investment plan with your mutual fund company. By investing regularly you take advantage of a strategy called dollar-cost averaging.

Make time your ally

The longer your money can work for you, the better compounding works. Consider this: $1,000 invested at 8% earns $80. Left to compound, the original $1,000, plus accumulated interest, will earn $160 in the 10th year, $507 in the 25th year, and $1,609 in the 40th year — returns of 16%, 51%, and 161%, respectively, on the original $1,000.

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April 26, 2009

Dish Network Advantages and Disadvantages

Filed under: Products Center @ 11:38 am

Advantages of Dish Network Services

Advantage #1. You get more digital channels for the same price, you get all the free features such as TiVo, up to 4 tv connections, free installation, and more.

Advantage #2. Dish Network cost about half the cost of traditional cable services and it seem like the taxes and surcharges are much lower. Also your bill is easier to understand and it can be viewed via the Internet. You can track all your viewing fees, pay tv fees up to the very minute with real time reporting.

Advantage #3. They provide great instant online and phone customer support – far and beyond the service offered through the big companies. No holding problems, delays, or automated calls.

Disadvantages of Dish Network Services

#1. Sometimes your dish tv goes out during a storm or during high winds. Cable is more reliable in tough, stormy times.

#2. No emergency reliability. Maybe you will never need it but if your dish does go out, you will have to wait longer for service.

#3. You may have to pay extra for your local channels, and almost everyone is watching and demands their local channels. This should be included in all packages, most do come with your local channels.

Research Your Choices.

Make sure to do your due diligence in order to make a wise choice in choosing your cable service. We hope this advice is helpful for you in making a sound choice on your home cable service

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April 24, 2009

Financial Planning and Equity Investment

Filed under: House Of Investment @ 10:11 am

A good financial plan demonstrates to investors that you are a competent manager, and that you may have that special managerial edge over other small business owners looking for equity money. You may gain a decided advantage through well-prepared plans and projections that include: cash budgets, pro forma statements, and capital investment analysis and capital source studies.

Cash budgets should be projected for one year and prepared monthly. They should combine expected sales revenues, cash receipts, material, labor and overhead expenses, and cash disbursements on a monthly basis. This permits anticipation of fluctuations in the level of cash and planning for short term borrowing and investment. Pro forma statements should be prepared for planning up to 3 years ahead.

Now, making these financial plans will not guarantee that you’ll be able to get venture capital. Not making them will virtually assure that you will not receive favorable consideration from venture capitalists.

An investment in the company may be in the final form of direct stock ownership which does not impose fixed charges. More likely, it will be in an interim form, such as a type of loan that can be converted to stock.

Angel investors and venture capital firms generally intend to realize capital gains on their investments by providing for a stock buy-back by the firm, by arranging a public offering, or by providing for a merger with a larger firm that has publicly traded stock. They usually hope to do this within five to seven years of their initial investment.

Most equity financing agreements guarantee that a major investor participates in any stock sale and approves any merger, regardless of their percentage of stock ownership. Sometimes the agreement requires that management work toward an eventual stock sale or merger. Clearly, the owner-manager of a small company seeking equity financing must consider that taking in a venture capitalist as a partner may be virtually a commitment to sell out or go public.

Types of Equity Investors
There are several paths to locating equity capital.

Individual private investors. Private placements of equity can be made through your contacts, those of your financial advisors, or by presentations before investment groups.

Finder firms. Such firms may be able to help the small company seeking capital, though they are generally not sources of capital themselves. Deal with reputable, professional finders whose fees are in line with industry practice. Further, note that investors generally prefer working directly with principals in making investments, though finders may provide useful introductions.

Traditional partnerships–which are often established by wealthy families to aggressively manage a portion of their funds by investing in small companies;

Professionally managed pools–which are made up of institutional money and which operate like the traditional partnerships;

Investment banking firms–which usually trade in more established securities, but occasionally form investor syndicates for venture proposals;

Once an interested investor is located, the rest of the process would seem simple; if you’re selling stock, you take the investors’ check and give them a stock certificate. Or if it were to be a loan, you would take the check and sign a note. Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple.

Regardless of the source of financing–family and friends, angels, or venture capital, expect some “due diligence” to be performed. Claims would be verified, and generally some forms of guarantees of collateral on the part of the entrepreneur would be documented, and possibly situations where the investor could take charge of the business.
Entrepreneurs, in their enthusiasm, often oversell. The execution of documents that clearly express responsibilities and safeguards is essential to a system based so heavily on trust.

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Cancelling Holidays and Paying off Debts. Good Sign or Bad Sign?

Filed under: Finance @ 8:45 am

If you’re in a hole, stop digging – it’s true of most things, and it’s certainly true of debt. So maybe The Times brought us good news when it announced that 58% of Britons were planning to cut back on their summer holidays, and 19% cancelling their summer holiday plans altogether. Maybe it’s encouraging to see people re-prioritising, keeping their money for essential things like rent, food and petrol.

On the other hand, it’s worrying to see so many cutting back on their holidays. Holidays might not be ‘essential’, but many of us see them as an important annual tradition: a reward for a year of hard work and a way to relax and ‘recharge the batteries’ before returning to the realities of bills, debts and work. It’s hard not to wonder how many people aren’t choosing to economise, but cutting back because they simply have no choice.

However you view the statistics, debt isn’t the only reason for these cutbacks. There’s also the credit crunch, the rising cost of living and the weakness of the Pound against the Euro. Cumulatively, these factors are nothing but bad news for people in the tourism industry. And since the travel and tourism industry employs over 120,000 people (according to the Institute of Travel & Tourism), this could well translate into bad news for economy. After the recent massive job losses among home-builders and estate agents, any threat to the travel and tourism industry could easily damage consumer confidence further and reduce the average consumer’s spending power.

On an individual level, of course, the impact could be much more immediate. How many of those 120,000 people are deep in debt – absolutely reliant on their next paycheque just to stay on top of their debt repayments?

It’s a serious problem: many financial experts advise people to set aside at least 3 months’ salary for a rainy day, but how many are able to do that? With record levels of personal debt and escalating cost of living, millions of people are struggling to afford their essential living costs and debt repayments, so saving is simply out of the question.

The ’silver lining’, the optimists say, is that hardship reminds people of why that safety net is so important. The next time the tough times come around, we promise ourselves, we’ll be ready for them, with our debts paid off and our 3 months’ salary safely in the bank.

Debt management plans, debt consolidation loans / mortgages, Trust Deeds, Individual Voluntary Arrangements, even bankruptcy… Each debt solution comes with its own unique pros and cons, but they do have one thing in common: they all tend to work better when people talk to a debt adviser as soon as they realise they’re in financial trouble. In general, the longer someone leaves it before they look into debt solutions, the harder it’ll be.

Detox Passing a Drug Test

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 1:54 am

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April 23, 2009

Being Promoted is Not All Good News, Shows Research

Filed under: Doing Business, Legal Counsel Tips @ 9:26 am

Economics and psychology researchers at the University of Warwick recently conducted a study to find the effects of promotion on workers. The results of the research have shown an increased mental strain for the employees, leaving some of the more career-oriented ones with less time to visit their doctors.

This research was carried out on 1,000 workers who had been promoted in the last five years as supervisors and mangers. These people were questioned about their health, the health services used by them and their mental comfort. The analysis showed no improvement in physical health of these people after their promotions.

There was, in fact, a deterioration in the health of these people, which was found to be directly linked to the promotion. The mental health of those promoted went down by 10%, and visits to the doctors reduced by almost a fifth. Researchers are of the opinion that the reduction in the visits to the doctor may not be an indication of improved health, but due to the increase in the stress levels.

Commenting on the study, Chris Boyce, one of the researchers, said that promotions might not be altogether good. Results of the research have shown that the mental health of the managers deteriorated after their promotions, and that the damage is not a short-term change. The lesser visits to the doctor ring alarm bells, since there are no indications of any health improvements in the promoted personnel.

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