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How Have Online Colleges Affected Tuition Costs for Traditional Schools?

Online Colleges Fight Tuition Bubble If you’ve attended a four-year university within the past decade, you have firsthand experience with the coming college tuition bubble. Although the trend has received surprisingly little press, it’s no longer debatable that the incessant rise in tuition costs at traditional colleges is sustainable. Even in the current low-inflation macroeconomic environment, […]

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Leveraged Investing Can Be Wonderful or Terrible

Investing, Stock Market / By Guest Contributor

According to Investopedia: Leverage is the use of various financial instruments or borrowed capital, such as margin, to increase the potential return of an investment. Leveraged Investing Exploded The World of Finance has gotten increasingily complex in the last five years. The collapse of some famous Banks like Lehman Brothers was laid firmly at the door of the problems related

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A Simplistic Look at Recession Ripples

1 Comment / Recession / By Guest Contributor

Recession Signs and Consequences The signs of an impending recession is a complicated combination of economic factors that include inflation, interest rates, lending, the value of the dollar, Government regulation and subsidies, corporate and personal liquidity, the stock market and unemployment figures. The consequences of the recession, on the other hand, are fairly simple. More companies and individuals are

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The Making of Kurdistan: Oil, Investment and a Turkish Gamble

1 Comment / Investing, Oil / By Guest Contributor

They say, “politics makes strange bedfellows” and nowhere is that more apparent than in the middle east. Oil and the massive investment returns it can bring can turn friends into enemies and enemies into friends in rather short order. Up until recently Turkey has been at odds with the Kurds in Northern Iraq but all that is

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Trends: Which Way Will Japanese Economy Go?

Leave a Comment / Economic Trends, Overseas Investing / By Guest Contributor

Japanese Economy Japan has been the number 2 economy in the world for 40 years but in 2010 it fell to 3rd place as the economy of China has continued to grow while Japan has stagnated for the last decade. Japan has an aging population and a mature economy while China is growing rapidly. In

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Buying Stocks and Bonds?

8 Comments / Bonds, Investing, Mutual Funds, Stock Market, Trading / By Guest Contributor

Before Buying Stocks and Bonds Given the state of the economy over the last few years, it’s no wonder everyone’s safeguarding his or her money a little more carefully. From bailouts to budget cuts, the ebbs and flows of the world’s economy are evident but Buying Stocks and Bonds often allow you to get the most bang

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Are You Brave Enough to Buy Low?

Leave a Comment / Economic Trends, Gold, Investing / By Casey Research

Contrarian Investing Are You Brave Enough to Buy Low? By Louis James, Casey Research This time last week, I was at the Cambridge House World Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver, BC. Usually the show is quite hopping, but this time, while there was the usual mob and there was standing room only at several of

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What Are Binary Options?

7 Comments / Options / By Guest Contributor

What Are Binary Options? Binary options are a new category of financial investment that allow much more flexibility in option pricing, expiration etc. With Binary Options traders can buy contracts that predict trade outcomes and the trader is paid back his initial investment plus a profit if his prediction is correct and is paid nothing if he

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Commerce is Going Mobile

1 Comment / Banking, General, Technology / By Guest Contributor

Mobile Commerce According to Wikipedia- Mobile Commerce, also known as M-Commerce or mCommerce, is the ability to conduct commerce using a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a smartphone, or other emerging mobile equipment such as dashtop mobile devices. “Mobile Commerce is any transaction, involving the transfer of ownership

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Tax Deferred Retirement Account

Investing, Retirement, Taxes / By Guest Contributor

What about Tax Deferred Retirement Accounts? According to Investopedia: The most common types of tax-deferred investments include those in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and deferred annuities. By deferring taxes on the returns of an investment, the investor benefits in two ways. The first benefit is tax-free growth: instead of paying tax on the returns of

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