LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS & PASSIVE INCOME

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but someone did a good job of putting that figure into perspective:

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.

• Personal Finance Haiku Contest Make Your Nut is currently hosting a contest on Personal Finance Haikus. The winner gets $20 and some link love. Anyway here are my entries:Refinance your homeUse it to pay off your debtBrokers must eat too. Open a brokerage account Invest your earnings Wall street needs your money. The US......
• A Celebration Of Consumerism Once again, Thanksgiving is upon us. A day of gluttony, friends and family. And even better is the fact that its followed by Black Friday, named because its the day that retailers finally show a profit for the year (or so the story goes). Once again, I'll be hounded by......
• How To Avoid Foreclosure You must have read the recent post about the New York Times economics reporter who is facing foreclosure himself. Edmund Andrews covered the US economy and Alan Greenspan for over six years, but despite his financial accumen still got suckered into a loan he couldn't really afford. He hasn't made......

• How Everyone Can Make a Million Dollars by Age 65 If you are reading this and hoping for a get rich scheme, I'm sorry to tell you that you won't find it here. However, keep reading, because you will gain extensive knowledge on how to stop wasting your money and taking essential steps to rid yourself of your debt and......
• I've Been Tagged... It seems there's something in the Blogosphere called tagging. I don't know how it started, but I guess someone came up with the idea of saying 5 secrets about yourself. You have Golbguru of Money, Matter, and More Musings to thank for this list. 0) Because I'm a software engineer,......
• Our Family Financial History This first writing project deals with the circumstances, people and events in our past which have led to our present financial habits. I proposed this topic as the first of our group writing project as I had been planning to write something about our background and why we live......

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