Top 10 Scams: How to Avoid Being Victimized
1. Internet fraud
The hottest medium for scams, as it is for conducting legitimate business and consumer purchases. The public has to be able to spot the difference.
Tips: Tell-tale signs of fraud are:
High-pressure sales tactics
Asking for payment by private courier or regular mail
No apparent street address on web sites and stolen...... >Read More
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Investing and Financial Planning During a 10 Year Time of Trouble: 2000-2010
During the 20 years ending in 2000 for the stock market, and a similar period in real estate ending in 2004, investing and financial planning have been relatively easy because each of these asset classes was in a rising trend. However, as the stock market showed us subsequent to 2000, trends do not last forever as equity prices entered a... >Read More
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Are Finances a Family Affair?
When you were growing up you always assumed that your parents had money. You probably weren’t sure how much they were worth or where they kept it but you were pretty certain there was a stache for a rainy day somewhere.
They must have been able to save a fair amount because every once in a while your Dad would... >Read More
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So You Want to Complain
It’s always frustrating when a product or a service doesn’t measure up. But with patience, planning and organization, the aggrieved party can often find satisfaction, Sun reporter Matthew DeBock finds.
Have you got a complaint? Not sure how to proceed or uncertain if it will do any good?
“A dissatisfied customer will tell 20 or 30...... >Read More
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Are We Hardwired To Give?
Read and respond with your opinion at the end of the article:
1. Is Giving a Biological Need Essential for Self & Community Survival?
2. “Is NOT Giving Hazardous To Your Health?”
Consider these research findings (references at end of this article):
By their first birthday, infants clearly demonstrate the human need and ability...... >Read More
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Handling Your Parent's Finances
I remember it well, sitting in the local greasy spoon in High River, Alberta having lunch with my dad on one the many monthly visits that I made, for several years, from Vancouver to High River. We were discussing his finances and how to expedite my ability to pay his bills, whether I was in High River or in... >Read More
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Global Aid Network
If you don't have clean drinking water, your life is over. Until you have a source of that life-sustaining fluid, nothing else matters. That's why Marvin Kehler and a scattered team of aid workers, geologists, machinists and business people, partnering with Campus Crusade for Christ and many churches, are working hard to come up with innovative...... >Read More
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Attorney's Advice - No Charge
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Your Money: Powerful Weapon or Loving Reward?
What is your financial nature?
Are you painstakingly careful with your money... >more
What Do You Fear?
